JP2002279080A - Method for providing news story scrap - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a news story on a network in such form as a scrap of news stories of a paper medium. SOLUTION: Image data of the news story are stored in a storage area E in accordance with a retrieval keyword, e.g. a hole text, a keyword by hand and classification, etc. When a user unit 102 designates the keyword via the network 101, the news story which coincides with the designated keyword is retrieved based on the designated keyword, one or >=2 retrieved news stories are reconstituted to generate the scrap and the scrap is provided to the user.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique for providing articles to users through a network.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the improvement of the Internet environment in recent years, articles such as newspapers and magazines have been widely published and distributed electronically via the Internet by mass media. ing.

[0003] On the other hand, there are many users who collect articles in a scrap format as paper media provided by mass media such as newspapers and magazines.

Therefore, it is convenient if electronic articles can be collected in a scrap format while using a network environment such as the Internet.

[0005] For a service for retrieving and reconfiguring articles, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-076473 discloses an automatic document reauthoring method and system.

As for the article scrap service, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-082066 discloses a search system on a network having a scrap function for each user.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION However, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open
The method (automatic document re-authoring method and system) disclosed in 000-076473 discloses a WWW (World Wide) widely used on the Internet.
Web) is a method of grouping a plurality of pages in an easy-to-view manner, and does not mention general paper-based articles.

A method disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-082066 (a search system on a network having a scrap function for each user) is also a method of accumulating WWW search histories. It does not provide a scrap function for a simple paper medium.

On the other hand, it can be said that the Internet has become widespread, and many documents are published on paper media, and many articles (information) exist only on paper media. Also, the current W
In HTML generally used in the WW, it is difficult to clearly define a document layout, and in most cases, a free layout on a paper medium cannot be reproduced. This, combined with the poor visibility of documents viewed through it, seems to still be the reason paper media is gaining support.

[0010] Therefore, providing a so-called scrap service in which a paper medium is searched for, and only a desired article of a user is extracted and reconstructed, is considered to be very useful.

An object of the present invention is to enable provision of an article in a form such as scrap of an article as a paper medium on a network.

[0012]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an article scrap providing method, wherein a server apparatus which permits access via a network reads an image provided by a medium and reads the image data of the article in units of articles. Storing in a storage area in association with a keyword included in an article; and searching the storage area based on a designated keyword transmitted from a user apparatus accessing the server apparatus via the network, Generating a scrap by collecting the articles associated with the keyword having a specified relationship with a specified keyword; and generating the scrap for the user accessing the server device via the network. Providing.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the article scrap providing method according to the first aspect, the keyword is obtained based on text data obtained by character recognition of image data of the article.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the article scrap providing method according to the first aspect, the step of providing the scrap provides the user with the scrap as a paper medium.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the article scrap providing method according to the first aspect, the specified keyword transmitted from a device of a user accessing the server device via the network in the server device is used. Storing the specified keyword in association with the user specifying information, and periodically searching the storage area based on the stored specified keyword, and associating the keyword with the keyword having a specified relationship with the specified keyword. Collecting the generated articles and generating a scrap, and providing the generated scrap via the network to a user specified by the user specifying information corresponding to the specified keyword, Is provided.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the article scrap providing method according to the first aspect, a billing amount is set according to the number of designated keywords transmitted from a device of a user accessing the server device via the network. Is determined.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the article scrap providing method according to the first aspect, further comprising a step of determining a billing amount according to the amount of articles included in the generated scrap.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided the article scrap providing method according to the first aspect, further comprising a step of storing search history information in a storage area for each user.

[0019]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[Basic System Contents] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a system configuration according to the present embodiment. The system according to the present embodiment provides an article scrap service to a user device 102 (user client computer) having a required browsing environment such as browsing software via a network 101 typified by the Internet. I do. The provision of such a service can be realized by data processing of the server device 103 accessible via the network 101. In other words, the server device 103 is a computer in which a computer program for providing article scrap is installed, and the data is stored in the data storage unit E as a storage area. Provide article scrap.

Here, the server device 102 will be described. In FIG. 1, A is an input receiving unit that receives an input of a specified keyword (a keyword for specifying a desired article, a classification code, a search character, etc.) from the user, B is a control unit that controls the entire system, and C is a search result. An output creation unit for shaping and presenting to the user, D is a search processing unit for searching articles from the stored article data under specified conditions, E is article image data and bibliographic information for search, classification code and article text F is an article scrap input unit for creating and inputting data to be stored in E, and storing data relating to the article related data relating to E.

The service provider managing the server device 103 stores article data in the data storage unit E via the article scrap input unit F shown in FIG. This is done, for example, by manually cutting out an article and scanning the image with a scanner to create image data, as well as bibliographic information such as newspaper name, date of publication, classification code, and article text. Is manually created and stored in a state where the information is linked with the scanned image data. This work will be done regularly and new articles will be added to keep users up to date.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating the data structure of data stored in the data storage unit. The specific method of realizing the accumulation is not mentioned in the present invention, but may be a method adopted in a general database.

The user operates the network 101 shown in FIG.
The search condition is transmitted to the article scrap service system via the web browser, and a desired group of articles (so-called scrap) is presented.

By using the network 101, an article scrap service that satisfies individual desired conditions can be realized for many users.

The article scrap service is as follows.
The server device 103 that permits access via the network 101 reads image data of articles provided by media in units of articles and keywords included in the articles (bibliographic information for search, classification codes, article texts, etc.) Is stored in the data storage unit E in association with the server device 301 via the network 101.
Search the data storage unit E based on the designated keyword transmitted from the device 102 of the user who accesses the designated keyword, collect articles associated with the keyword having a specified relationship with the designated keyword, generate a scrap, and generate a scrap. This is realized by providing the generated scrap to the device 102 of the user who accesses the server device 103 via 101.

[Article Accumulation Method] A large cost is required for a service provider to manually prepare search information (bibliographic information, text data, and the like), and a service cannot be provided to users at low cost. There is fear.

Therefore, if text data obtained by character recognition of an article, that is, OCR of an article is used as search information, the search information can be added to the image data without human intervention. Becomes possible. Therefore,
The cost for creating the stored data is reduced, and the service can be provided to the user at low cost.

FIG. 3 shows an article and the OCR for this article.
It is a schematic diagram which shows the content of the accumulation | storage data using a result.

Naturally, there are cases where the OCR does not give a correct recognition result. However, it is possible to avoid search omission to some extent by loosely specifying the search conditions.

[Method of Providing Article Scrap] Digital data can be copied without deterioration, and permitting copying while protecting the value of the original data requires a very expensive mechanism.

Therefore, a paper medium is used as a method of presenting the article search results to the user.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example of an article scrap page presented to a user.

Since only the paper medium of the article scrap page as shown in FIG. 4 is provided by means such as mailing, it is difficult for the user to make an electronic copy.

Further, since articles on a paper medium can be read as they are on a paper medium, information loss due to digitization can be avoided, the affinity for visual observation is high, and the burden on the user for reading is reduced. There is also an effect.

[Article Scrap Periodic Transmission Service] Information on articles is updated every day, and users often want the latest information in their field of interest. Therefore, when the user starts using the article scrap service, after specifying the search conditions, a service is provided that periodically searches for updated data from the previous search and provides the search results to the user. This is very useful for the convenience of the user.

For example, the user first specifies a keyword of interest, and also specifies an article scrap service update period such as monthly / weekly / daily.

If a monthly publication is desired, the user regularly obtains a booklet in which the desired article is scrapped once a month. Therefore, the user can always efficiently obtain the latest information.

As illustrated in FIG. 4, the article scrap is a so-called scrapbook-like booklet in which only relevant articles are collected and laid out. You can compare articles and read them, which is convenient for understanding information.

Such an article scrap periodic transmission service is provided by a user device 1 accessing the server device 103 via the network 101 in the server device 103.
02 is stored in association with the specified keyword transmitted from the device No. 02 and the user specifying information for specifying the user,
The user periodically searches the data storage unit E based on the stored designated keyword, collects articles associated with the keyword having a prescribed relationship with the designated keyword, generates a scrap, and generates a scrap corresponding to the designated keyword. For the user specified by the specific information, the network 10
1 by providing the generated scrap.

[Accounting] The processing amount of the article scrap service increases or decreases depending on the search conditions specified by the user. In providing services, the computational and economic resources are limited, so that it is impossible to meet the user's requirements without limit. Therefore, by setting a pay-as-you-go system based on the number of keywords included in the search conditions specified by the user, it is possible to balance resources and processing amount.

Here, depending on the billing method based on the pay-as-you-go system based on the number of keywords, even if the number of keywords is the same, there are many articles that match highly general keywords (for example, automobiles) and highly specialized keywords (for example, wishbones). It is expected that there are few articles that match ()). Also, if the keyword "car" is specified, articles with the specified keyword "wishbone" (note: wishbone is a type of car suspension) will often be included.

Therefore, it is conceivable to balance the resources and the processing amount by setting a pay-as-you-go billing system for the amount of article scrap finally presented to the user.

[Accumulation and Management of Search History Information] If information on the search history of the user is stored for each user in the article scrap service system, the user can store his or her own past search results. It is possible to take out efficiently without management by using, and it is possible to achieve great convenience.

More specifically, search date and time and search condition history information may be managed for each user and released to the user.

[0046]

As described above, according to the first to seventh aspects of the present invention, image data of an article is converted into a keyword for search, for example, a full text, a keyword by hand, a classification, and the like. The corresponding articles are stored and searched for matching articles based on the specified keywords specified by the user via the network, scraps are generated in appropriate units, and this scrap is provided to the user. User, via the network,
It is possible to obtain information close to the article itself.

If a character recognition technique such as OCR is used, the work required for storing read image data of an article and keywords contained in the article in a storage area in association with each other can be reduced.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, if the retrieval result is presented to the user on a paper medium,
Problems associated with copying digital data, for example, rights such as copyrights, can be avoided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a system configuration according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a data structure of data stored in a data storage unit.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an article and contents of stored data using an OCR result of the article.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of an article scrap page presented to a user.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 101 network 103 server device 102 user device E storage area (data storage unit)

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Claims (7)

[Claims] A step of storing, in a storage area, a server device permitting access via a network, relating read image data of an article provided by a medium in units of articles and keywords included in the article in association with each other; A search for the storage area based on a designated keyword transmitted from a device of a user who accesses the server device via the network, and the article associated with the keyword having a specified relationship with the designated keyword. And generating a scrap by collecting the generated scrap. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: providing the user accessing the server device via the network with the generated scrap. 2. The article scrap providing method according to claim 1, wherein the keyword is obtained based on text data obtained by character-recognizing image data of the article. 3. The step of providing scrap comprises:
The article scrap providing method according to claim 1, wherein the scrap is provided to a user as a paper medium. 4. a step of storing, in the server device, a designated keyword transmitted from a device of a user accessing the server device via the network in association with user identification information for identifying the user; Periodically retrieving the storage area based on the stored specified keyword, collecting the articles associated with the keyword having a specified relationship with the specified keyword, and generating a scrap, 2. The article scrap providing method according to claim 1, further comprising: providing the scrap generated through the network to a user specified by the user specifying information corresponding to the information. 5. The article scrap providing method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of determining a charge amount according to the number of designated keywords transmitted from a device of a user accessing the server device via the network. 6. The article scrap providing method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of determining a billing amount according to the amount of articles included in the generated scrap. 7. The article scrap providing method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of storing search history information in a storage area for each user.