JP2004110131A - Information processor, information processing method and information processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processor, an image processing method and an image processing system capable of creating display data displaying the same information in different display forms with a small storage capacity. <P>SOLUTION: The information processor has a request receiving means for receiving a request from a terminal connected through a network; a display information specifying means for specifying display information displayed on the terminal based on the request from the terminal; a display form defining means for defining a plurality of display forms for displaying the display information on the terminal; a format information defining means for defining format information for displaying the display information on the terminal; a display information converting means for converting the display information into the display data displayed on the terminal using one display form out of the plurality of display forms according to the format information; and a display data transmitting means for transmitting the display data to the terminal. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention particularly relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method for transmitting display data to a terminal connected via a network. The present invention also relates to an information processing system including the information processing device and the terminal.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, web pages, which are display data for providing various types of information on the Internet, have provided designs and display formats of information according to users. Prominent examples of displaying the same information in different display formats include display in different languages. That is, users who use Web pages do not always use the same language, but generally view information in various languages. One user requests display in Japanese, and another user requests display in English, French, or the like.
[0003]
On the other hand, recently, in an embedded device such as an image processing device, the status of the device, stored document information, spooled jobs, and an address book used for facsimile and e-mail are connected via a network. There are terminals and the like provided by Web pages. The advantage of providing such information by a Web page is that if there is a general-purpose Web browser on the terminal side, there is no need to install special software, the platform does not depend on the terminal side, and there is no need for the device side. And information can be confirmed in a remote place. Also on a Web page provided by such a device, it is desirable that the same information can be displayed in different languages and display formats depending on the user, similarly to a general Web server.
[0004]
As a method for providing information on a device in various languages, a method of holding a Web page that has been translated in advance (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-330992), a method of mounting a plurality of translation modules in one device ( Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-325255) and the like, and a device can promptly respond to a Web browser request by providing a Web page created in advance in a language corresponding to the request from the Web browser.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, embedded devices such as image processing apparatuses have strict memory capacity restrictions, and it is extremely difficult to prepare web pages that have been translated in advance and to prepare a plurality of translation modules in one device. In addition, there are circumstances that are extremely difficult not only in terms of capacity but also in terms of development efficiency and maintenance. That is, since a template of a Web page as HTML (HyperText Markup Language) data is embedded in the source code of a programming language such as C language, it is necessary to correct and recompile the source code when changing the HTML. Occurs.
[0006]
In addition, since processing related to format information such as the layout of a Web page is incorporated in the logic of the program, either a person in charge of the program and a person in charge of the layout of the Web page create one source code. You have to do or do both tasks alone. Furthermore, in order to view HTML, which is the output result of the program, it is necessary to operate the program on a real machine such as an image processing apparatus, and the program must be created first.
[0007]
On the other hand, as a method of separating screen layout information from a program, there is a method using a technique such as XML (extensible Markup Language) and XSL (extensible Stylesheet Language). That is, the program outputs the processing result as XML data, and the format information for converting to HTML data is defined in the XSL file. As a result, the format information of the Web page can be changed only by modifying the XSL file, and there is no need to modify the source code of the program and recompile. Further, if there is only a sample of XML data as a processing result, an XSL file that defines format information can be created. Further, since confirmation of XSLT (XSL Transformations) conversion can be performed on a PC (Personal Computer), an actual device is not required for screen development. Therefore, the program and the format information of the Web page can be developed in parallel, and the respective tasks can be completely divided.
[0008]
As described above, generation of a Web page in an embedded device is significantly more convenient in terms of development efficiency if XSLT conversion is used. However, in this case, the number of XSL files required for the number of languages is required for one Web page. Therefore, in an embedded device such as an image processing apparatus, the problem of the memory capacity still remains.
[0009]
That is, due to the characteristics of the XSL file, language-independent display codes such as tags, spaces, and numbers occupy more than half of one page, and occupy one page compared to display information that is displayed differently in each language. High rate. Therefore, it is desirable that the XSL file which has a high occupancy rate of one page and causes memory consumption is commonly used in generating a plurality of Web pages having different display languages.
[0010]
The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and has an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing method capable of generating display data for displaying the same information in different display formats with a small storage capacity. The purpose is to provide the system.
[0011]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
Therefore, in order to solve the above problem, the present invention provides a request receiving unit for receiving a request from a terminal connected via a network, and the terminal receiving the request by the request receiving unit. Display information specifying means for specifying display information to be displayed on the terminal, a display format defining means for defining a plurality of display formats for displaying the display information on the terminal, and the display information Format information defining means for defining format information for displaying on the terminal, a display displayed on the terminal using one of the plurality of display formats in accordance with the format information. A display information conversion unit for converting the display data to data; and a display data transmission unit for transmitting the display data to the terminal.
[0012]
In such an information processing apparatus, since a plurality of display formats for the display information are defined by the display format definition means, the format information can be separated from the information on the display format. Therefore, it is not necessary to have a format information defining means for each display format, and display data for displaying the same display information in different display formats can be generated with a small storage capacity.
[0013]
Further, according to the present invention, as described in claim 2, the display format defining means defines a character string in a plurality of linguistic expressions for one piece of the display information.
[0014]
In such an information processing apparatus, since one display information has a definition of a character string in a plurality of linguistic expressions, it is possible to generate display data in which the same display information is displayed in different linguistic expressions. it can.
[0015]
According to a third aspect of the present invention, the plurality of linguistic expressions have different language types.
[0016]
In such an information processing apparatus, it is possible to generate display data in which the same display information is displayed in linguistic expressions in different language types.
[0017]
The present invention is characterized in that the display information specifying means determines the display format of the display information based on a request from the terminal.
[0018]
In such an information processing apparatus, the display format in which the display information is to be displayed is determined based on the request from the terminal, so that the display data in the display format in accordance with the request from the terminal can be generated.
[0019]
According to the present invention, a part of the display information is described in the format information.
[0020]
In such an information processing apparatus, since part of the display information is described in the format information, static display information such as display information that is always displayed may be described in the format information. Can be developed more efficiently.
[0021]
Further, according to the present invention, as set forth in claim 6, the display information specifying means generates display information data including a processing result based on a request from the terminal as the display information. And the display information conversion means converts the display information included in the display information data into the display data for displaying on the terminal.
[0022]
In such an information processing apparatus, display information is generated as a result of a process based on a request from a terminal, so that it is possible to provide display data in which display information is dynamically changed.
[0023]
Further, according to the present invention, as set forth in claim 7, the display information data includes identification information for determining the display format of the display information included in the display information data, The display information conversion means determines the display format of the display information based on the identification information.
[0024]
In such an information processing apparatus, since the display information includes identification information for determining a display format, the display information conversion means performs conversion of the display information data into display data when the display information data is converted into display data. The display format of the display information can be easily determined by checking.
[0025]
Furthermore, as a means for solving the above-described problems, the present invention can be an information processing method processed by the information processing device, or an information processing system configured by the information processing device.
[0026]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
[0027]
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention that fuses various image forming functions has, for example, a functional configuration as shown in FIG. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of an image processing apparatus.
[0028]
1, an image processing apparatus 10 includes a controller board 1101 in which a CPU 1102, a memory unit 1104, and a hard disk (HD) 1106 are connected to an ASIC 1108, an operation unit 1111, a USB (Universal Serial Bus) 1112, an IEEE13941113, , A scanner 1231, a plotter 1232, and a FAX 1233.
[0029]
The operation unit 1111 is connected to the ASIC 1108 and has a USB (Universal Serial Bus) 1112, an IEEE13941113, a scanner 1231 which is a hardware resource for performing a scanner process, and a plotter which is a hardware resource for performing a print process. The FAX 1232 and the FAX 1233, which is a hardware resource for performing the FAX process, are connected to the ASIC 1108 via the PCI bus 1109.
[0030]
The memory unit 1104 stores programs and the like necessary for controlling the image processing apparatus 10. The HD 1106 stores document files, image data, programs, font data, and forms. The operation unit 1111 receives an input operation from the user and performs display for the user.
[0031]
By adopting such a hardware configuration, devices for performing different image processing can be shared, and low-cost design can be achieved.
[0032]
Next, a functional configuration of the image processing apparatus 10 controlled by the CPU 1102 shown in FIG. 1 will be described. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a functional configuration of the image processing apparatus. 2, the image processing apparatus 10 includes hardware resources for performing individual image processing such as a scanner 1231, a plotter 1232, and a facsimile 1233, an engine control board 1201, an engine I / F 1202, an OS 1203, and an API (Application). A program interface 1204 and various applications such as a scanner application 1211, a printer application 1212, a facsimile application 1213, and a web application 1214.
[0033]
The engine control board 1201 controls individual functions of the image processing apparatus 10 such as the scanner 1231, the plotter 1232, and the facsimile 1233. The engine I / F 1202 provides an interface to the engine control board 1201 to the OS 1203 and the API 1204.
[0034]
The OS 1203 is an operating system such as UNIX (registered trademark), and executes various kinds of software implemented as applications such as the scanner application 1211 and the printer application 1212 in parallel as processes.
[0035]
The API 1204 provides an interface to applications such as the scanner application 1211 and the printer application 1212.
[0036]
The scanner application 1211 is a scanner application, and the printer application 1212 is a printer application having a page description language (PDL), PCL, and postscript (PS). The fax application 1213 is a facsimile application. Further, the Web application 1214 is an application for providing various Web application functions of the image processing apparatus 10 to a Web client connected to the image processing apparatus 10 via a network.
[0037]
As described above, since various applications are installed on the OS 1203 and the API 1204, it is possible to share a processing portion of each image processing. Therefore, the productivity of the entire image processing apparatus 10 can be increased, and the development efficiency of each application can be increased.
[0038]
Next, details of the functional configuration of the image processing apparatus as a Web server based on some functions of the Web application 1214 and the API 1204 will be described. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a functional configuration of the image processing apparatus as a Web server. 3, an image processing apparatus 10 includes a Web server program 11, a Web application 12, an XSLT (XSL Transformations) processor 13, an XSL (extensible Stylesheet Language) file 14, a language resource file 15 for Japanese and a language resource file 16 for English. Consists of
[0039]
The Web server program 11 corresponds to a program generally called HTTPd (HTTP daemon), and is for causing the image processing apparatus 10 to function as a Web server. The Web server program 11 activates the Web application 12 in response to an HTTP request from the Web browser 101 of the Web client 100. Further, the Web server program 11 transmits HTML (HyperText Markup Language) data generated by the Web application 12 to the Web browser 101 that has issued the request. Note that the Web server program 11 is implemented in the image processing apparatus 10 as a part of the API 1204 in FIG.
[0040]
The Web application 12 corresponds to the Web application 1214 in FIG. 2, executes a process in response to a request from the Web client 100, and generates a Web page as display data for displaying the processing result on the Web client 10. It is. For example, the Web application 12 generates a Web page that displays setting information of the image processing device 10. More specifically, the Web application 12 generates a processing result as XML data, and the XSLT processor 13 converts the processing result stored in the XML data into HTML data (Web page) as display information on a Web page. As a result, a Web page is generated. However, the XML data is not necessarily limited to the data dynamically generated by the Web application 12. The Web application specifies the XML data stored as a file as display information, and converts the XML data to a Web page. May be generated.
[0041]
Here, the display information stored in the XML data generated by the Web application 12 is not described in a display format that is actually displayed on a Web page, and identification information (hereinafter, “identification information”) for identifying each display target. Key "). That is, the Web application 12 performs display information generation processing, but does not care about the display format. The XML data in which the display information generated by the Web application 12 is stored is hereinafter referred to as “display information data”.
[0042]
The XSLT processor 13 converts display information data into HTML data according to format information defined in the XSL file 14. At this time, the XSLT processor 13 determines the display format of the display information specified by the key in the display information data according to the definition of the language resource file such as the Japanese language resource file 15 or the English language resource file 16.
[0043]
In the XSL file 14, processing for converting a key in the display information data into a display format described in the language resource file and format information for converting the display information data into HTML data are defined. Also, in the XSL file 14, display information is described as a key, and conversion of the display information into a display format is also defined.
[0044]
The Japanese language resource file 15 is an XML file in which a display character string in Japanese is defined as a display format for a key in the display information data, and the English language resource file 16 is a file for a key in the display information data. This is an XML file in which a display character string in English is defined as a display format. Although not shown, the language resource files are not limited to those for Japanese and English, and if it is necessary to generate Web pages displayed in other languages, for example, German, French, etc. What is necessary is just to prepare a language resource file to perform.
[0045]
As described above, the display information displayed on the Web page generated by the Web application 12 is generated as a key in the display information data, and the display character string of each key in the display information data is defined by the language resource file. Format information for converting display information data into a Web page is defined by the XSL file 14. As described above, since the XSL file 14 does not depend on a display character string that is a display format of display information, the Web application 12 can display a plurality of Web pages displaying the same display information in display character strings of different languages, respectively. Using the XSL file 14 of FIG.
[0046]
Note that the Web client 100 is a terminal connected to the image processing apparatus 10 via a network, and includes a Web browser 101 that displays a Web page.
[0047]
Hereinafter, a processing procedure of the image processing apparatus 10 of FIG. 3 will be described. FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram illustrating a Web page generation process of the image processing apparatus.
[0048]
In step S10, the Web browser 101 of the Web client 100 sends a Web page transmission request for displaying setting information such as the printer name of the image processing apparatus 10 in Japanese or English based on the input of a URL or the like from the user. (HTTP request) to the Web server program 11 of the image processing apparatus 10.
[0049]
Proceeding to step S11 following step S10, the Web server program 11 that has received the HTTP request calls the Web application 12 that generates a Web page that displays the setting information of the image processing information 10 according to the URL specification. Here, the Web server program 11 calls up the Web application 12 by specifying to generate a Web page in the language requested by the Web client 100.
[0050]
Proceeding to step S12 following step S11, the Web application 12 acquires the setting information of the image processing apparatus 10, and generates the result as XML data.
[0051]
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of display information data generated as a processing result of the Web application. The display information data 120 in FIG. 5 is an example when a Japanese Web page is requested. In the display information data 120, a lang element 121 indicates which language the display information data 120 should be converted to a Web page. In the present embodiment, the description of “ja” means that it should be converted to Japanese. For example, if the description to be converted to English is “en” and an English Web page is requested, “en” is described in the lang element 121.
[0052]
The result element 122 indicates the status of the processing result of the Web application 12. Here, “SUCCESS” indicates that the processing has been completed normally.
[0053]
The setting element 123 is an element in which setting information of the image processing apparatus 10 is described, and has an item element representing each setting information. Each item element further has a Name element indicating the key of the attribute name of the setting information and a Value element indicating the value.
[0054]
That is, it can be seen from the item element 124 that the value of the attribute “S_NAME” is “My Printer”. Similarly, from the item element 125 and the item element 126, it can be seen that the value of the attribute “S_GROUP” is “RRR” and the value of the attribute “S_COMMENT” is “Color Printer”. Here, “S_NAME”, “S_GROUP”, and “S_COMMENT” correspond to keys for identifying display information, and are objects whose display character strings differ depending on the language.
[0055]
In step S13 following step S12 in FIG. 4, the Web application 12 requests the XSLT processor 13 to generate HTML data by applying the XSL file 14 to the display information data 120.
[0056]
Proceeding to step S14 following step S13, the XSLT processor 13 applies the XSL file 14 to the display information data 120 to generate HTML data. At this time, the XSLT processor 13 determines which language the key described in the display information data 120 or the XSL file 14 should be replaced with, according to the description of the lang element of the display information data 120, that is, which language resource file should be used. Judge and replace with the expression defined in the language resource file.
[0057]
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an XML file as a language resource file for Japanese. The description 151 in FIG. 6 defines that the display character string in Japanese for the key “S_TITLE” is “setting”. Similarly, “S_NAME” is defined as “printer name”, “S_GROUP” is defined as “group”, “S_COMMENT” is defined as “comment”, and “S_COND” is defined as “state”.
[0058]
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of an XML file as a language resource file for English. In the description 161 in FIG. 7, the display character string in English for the key “S_TITLE” is “Settings”, “S_NAME” is “PrinterName”, “S_GROUP” is “Group”, “S_COMMENT” is “Comment”, and “S_COND” is “ Condition ".
[0059]
8 and 9 are diagrams showing examples of the XSL file. FIGS. 8 and 9 show one XSL file. The description 141 in FIG. 8 defines output of a character string to be displayed on the title bar of the Web browser 101 to HTML data (hereinafter, simply referred to as “output”). However, a character string to be output is not directly described, but is defined by a key as shown in a description 1411. That is, a multilingual conversion template (String Generator) described later is called using the key “S_TITLE” as an input parameter, and a display character string corresponding to the key “S_TITLE” defined in the language resource file is output as a title character string. Is defined. Therefore, from FIG. 6, a character string “Setting” is output as a character string to be displayed on the title bar of the Web browser 101 in FIG. 7 for English and a character string “Settings” for English.
[0060]
The description 142 in FIG. 9 defines the output of a character string to be displayed as a title in a Web page. In the description 142, similarly to the description 141, the display character string corresponding to the key "S_TITLE" defined in the language resource file is called by calling a multilingual conversion template (String Generator) using the key "S_TITLE" as an input parameter. It is defined to output as a title character string in the page.
[0061]
The description 143 defines the output of each item element of the display information data 120. That is, the description 1431 defines the output of the key described in the Name element in the item element, and the description 1432 defines the output of the character string described in the Value element in the item element. I have. However, for the Name element in the description 1431, it is defined that a display character string corresponding to a key in each Name element defined in the language resource file is output by calling a multilingual conversion template (String Generator). .
[0062]
The description 144 in FIG. 8 defines a multilingual conversion template. In the description 1441, the language resource file name to be used for key conversion is specified with reference to the lang element 12 in the display information data 120. The definition in the description 1441 is an example on the premise that the language resource file name follows the format of “resource_ <character string of the lang element 12> .xml”. Therefore, the file name of the Japanese language resource file 15 is resource_ja. xml, the file name of the English language resource file 16 is resource_en. xml.
[0063]
In the description 1442, a display character string corresponding to the key is retrieved from the language resource file and output.
[0064]
In step S14, when generating a Web page displaying the display information data 120 in Japanese, the XSLT processor 13 generates HTML data by applying the XSL file 14 and the Japanese resource file 15 described above, and displays the data in English. When generating a Web page to be executed, HTML data is generated by applying the same XSL file 14 and language resource file 16 for English as the generation of the Web page in Japanese.
[0065]
Proceeding to step S15 following step S14 in FIG. 4, the XSLT processor 13 outputs the generated HTML data, that is, the web page to the web application 12.
[0066]
Proceeding to step S16 following step S15, the Web application 12 outputs a Web page to the Web server program 11. Proceeding to step S17 following step S16, the Web server program 11 transmits the Web page to the requesting Web browser 101.
[0067]
Progressing to step S18 following step S17, the Web browser 101 displays the received Web page.
[0068]
FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a Web page generated in Japanese. In the Web browser 111 of FIG. 10, the title bar character string 112 and the Web page title 113 are displayed as "Setting" in Japanese. Also, it can be seen that the attribute names are displayed in Japanese as "printer name", "group", and "comment". These character strings are all obtained from the Japanese resource file 15.
[0069]
FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a Web page generated in English. In the Web browser 121 of FIG. 10, the title bar character string 122 and the Web page title 123 are displayed as "Settings" in English. Also, it can be seen that each attribute name is displayed in English as “PrinterName”, “Group”, “Comment”. These character strings are all obtained from the Japanese resource file 15. Note that the Web page in FIG. 11 is generated by applying the same XSL file 14 as the Web page in FIG.
[0070]
As described above, according to the image processing apparatus 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of Web pages displaying the same display information in different languages are generated using the same XSL file 14, so that the Web The XSL file 14, which tends to be large in size by including many language-independent codes such as tags, spaces, and numbers due to its characteristic of defining page format information, does not need to be set for each language type. A plurality of different Web pages can be generated with a small storage capacity.
[0071]
Also, since the Web application 12 only needs to generate XML data that does not include format information as a processing result, it is not necessary to implement a process that depends on format information such as a layout on a Web page, thereby improving development efficiency. be able to.
[0072]
It should be noted that the effects of the present invention are not limited to only the image processing apparatus, but can be similarly obtained in other devices.
[0073]
Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail, the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments, and various modifications may be made within the scope of the present invention described in the appended claims.・ Change is possible.
[0074]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, since a plurality of display formats for display information are defined by the display format definition means, the format information can be separated from the information on the display format. Therefore, it is not necessary to have a format information defining means for each display format, and display data for displaying the same display information in different display formats can be generated with a small storage capacity.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of an image processing apparatus.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a functional configuration of an image processing apparatus.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a functional configuration of an image processing apparatus as a Web server.
FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram illustrating a Web page generation process of the image processing apparatus.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of display information data generated as a processing result of a Web application.
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an XML file as a language resource file for Japanese.
FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of an XML file as a language resource file for English.
FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of an XSL file.
FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of an XSL file.
FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a Web page generated in Japanese.
FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a Web page generated in English.
[Explanation of symbols]
10 Image processing device 11 Web server program
12 Web application
13 XSLT processor 14 XSL file
15 Language resource files for Japanese
16 English language resource files
100 Web client 101 Web browser
1101 Controller 1102 CPU
1104 Memory unit 1108 ASIC
1109 PCI 1111 Operation unit
1112 USB 1113 IEEE 1394
1201 Engine control board 1202 Engine I / F
1203 OS 1204 API
1211 Printer application 1212 Scanner application
1213 Fax application 1215 Web application
1231 Scanner 1232 Plotter
1233 FAX

Claims (15)

Request receiving means for receiving a request from a terminal connected via a network,
Display information specifying means for specifying display information to be displayed on the terminal, based on the request from the terminal received by the request receiving means,
Display format definition means for defining a plurality of display formats for displaying the display information on the terminal,
Format information defining means for defining format information for displaying the display information on the terminal,
Display information conversion means for converting the display information into display data to be displayed on the terminal using one of the plurality of display formats according to the format information,
An information processing apparatus, comprising: display data transmitting means for transmitting the display data to the terminal. 2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display format definition unit defines a character string in a plurality of linguistic expressions for one piece of the display information. 3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of linguistic expressions have different language types. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display information specifying unit determines the display format of the display information based on a request from the terminal. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a part of the display information is described in the format information. The display information identification unit further includes a display information data generation unit that generates display information data including a processing result based on a request from the terminal as the display information,
The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the display information conversion unit converts the display information included in the display information data into the display data to be displayed on the terminal. . In the display information data, identification information for determining the display format of the display information included in the display information data is described,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the display information conversion unit determines the display format of the display information based on the identification information. A request receiving procedure for receiving a request from a terminal connected via a network,
Based on a request from the terminal received by the request receiving procedure, a display information specifying procedure for specifying display information to be displayed on the terminal,
The display information is displayed on the terminal using one of a plurality of display formats for displaying the display information on the terminal according to format information for displaying the display information on the terminal. A display information conversion procedure for converting to display data
A display data transmitting procedure for transmitting the display data to the terminal. 9. The information processing method according to claim 8, wherein the plurality of display formats are character strings in different language expressions. The information processing method according to claim 9, wherein the different language expressions have different language types. The information processing method according to any one of claims 8 to 10, wherein the display information specifying procedure determines the display format of the display information based on a request from the terminal. 12. The information processing method according to claim 8, wherein a part of the display information is described in the format information. The display information specifying step further includes a display information data generating step of generating display information data including a processing result based on a request from the terminal as the display information,
13. The information processing method according to claim 8, wherein the display information conversion step converts the display information included in the display information data into the display data to be displayed on the terminal. . In the display information data, identification information for determining the display format of the display information included in the display information data is described,
14. The information processing method according to claim 13, wherein the display information conversion step determines the display format of the display information based on the identification information. An information processing system in which an information processing device and a terminal are connected via a network,
Request receiving means for receiving a request from the terminal,
Display information specifying means for specifying display information to be displayed on the terminal, based on the request from the terminal received by the request receiving means,
Display format definition means for defining a plurality of display formats for displaying the display information on the terminal,
Format information defining means for defining format information for displaying the display information on the terminal,
Display information conversion means for converting the display information into display data to be displayed on the terminal using one of the plurality of display formats according to the format information,
Display data transmission means for transmitting the display data to the terminal,
The information processing system, wherein the terminal includes a display unit that displays the display data received from the information processing device.

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