JP2005108192A - Easy association electronic album creation support system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem that interruption of thought is forced since flow is different from that of a process of human thought, work such as paste/insertion taking twice the labor occurs and much labor and time is required for the purpose in the case of creating an electronic album consisting of three elements as photographs/maps/travel writings. <P>SOLUTION: This invention provides an easy association electronic album creation support system for independently creating information element databases as photograph contents 1, a detailed photo album 2, a map 3 and the travel writings 4, respectively by using general commercial software along processes of natural thought/creation of a man, newly introducing technique for "associating the information element data bases by mutually providing hyperlinks" without depending on the conventional pasting/insertion technology for association between the information element databases and realizing it by a simple method. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an easily associated electronic album creation support system.

Conventionally, when making an electronic album composed of three information elements, such as a photo, a map, and a travel report, in many cases, the three information elements are associated by pasting these three information elements and combining them into a single piece of synthesized information. It was. However, these three information elements are usually processed independently at different points in time as a process of human thought and creation. That is, when taking a photograph, the photographer is dedicated to taking a picture, and as a result, the photograph is stored as photographic information in the memory of a digital camera or the film of a silver salt camera. In addition, maps are prepared by collecting catalogs on the road, searching and collecting on the Internet, and creating them yourself using tools. Moreover, it is normal for a travel report to be created by revisiting it as a travel report based on what was recorded on the trip after returning home from the trip. In this way, the three information elements are created independently of each other, which is a natural flow from the human thought / creation process. On the other hand, to make an electronic album, take one photo from the photo database and "paste" it on the map, then "paste" it while pasting the travel notes of that photo part, and then the next photo There is a way to create an album by taking out and repeating the same work. From the human thought / composition process, this causes interruptions in thinking against the flow of travel, and the quality of travel is significantly reduced.
Another method is to complete a database of three information elements, a photo, a map, and a travel statement, following the process of human thought and creation, and then take one photo from the photo database. There is a method of creating an album by “pasting” on a map, and extracting the part from a historical sentence database and “pasting” it. This is a troublesome work, and is a waste of labor and time. Regardless of the former or the latter method, this “pasting” method interrupts human thinking, significantly reduces the quality of the album, or is a waste of labor and time due to twice effort. There is a fatal defect.

  Although it is possible to create an electronic album of three information elements of a photo, a map, and a travel sentence without using the “paste” method and using conventional techniques, it takes a lot of labor and time. In other words, it is a method of creating a database of photographs, maps, and travel sentences independently and correlating them for each photograph, each place, and each travel sentence. It is difficult to say that it will be put to practical use. If so, the specific procedure is as follows. As the first step of association, for each HTML index of the photo table of contents to be related, find the file containing the label from the photo table of contents folder, and then the HTML of the “link destination (detailed photo, map, travel report)” In the description part, add a hyperlink to the detailed photo. Next, find the file containing the label from the map folder and add a hyperlink from the table of contents to the map. Then add a hyperlink from the photo table of contents to the travel report. This is repeated as many times as the number of HTML labels in the same place / group. This is all done manually. As the second step of association, for the same label of the map to be associated, find the file containing the label from the map folder, and in the HTML description part of the “link destination (detailed photo, photo table of contents, travel report)” And add hyperlinks to detailed photos. Next, find the file that contains the label in the photo table of contents folder and add a hyperlink from the map to the photo table of contents. Then add a hyperlink from the map to the travel report. This is repeated as many times as the number of HTML labels in the same place / group. This is also done manually. As a third stage of association, a hyperlink to a detailed photograph is attached in the HTML description part of the “link destination (detailed photograph, photo table of contents, map)” for the same label of the travel sentence to be associated. Next, a file containing the label is found in the photo table of contents folder, and a hyperlink from the travel record to the photo table of contents is added. Similarly, a file including the label is found from the map folder, and a hyperlink from the travel sentence to the map is added. This is repeated as many times as the number of HTML labels in the same place / group. This is also done manually. Such an enormous amount of manual work is not practically used from the viewpoint of labor and time.

  In addition, recently, there is also a service that creates and returns an album mount with a map when you send photo information to a service provider via the Internet or bring a CD-ROM with photo information to the agent's agency. It seems that it is appearing, but in this case, the map is limited to the one provided by the merchant, so there is a problem of whether or not you can get what suits your purpose. In addition, the basic problem pointed out in the section 0002 is common because it is a method of “pasting” photographs and travel reports on the map.

In addition, it seems that some companies are trying to devise a new system for simplifying the work related to the association. In this case, a new digital camera developed for this purpose is required, or the format required by the system requirement is Since it is premised on the emergence of related companies that provide digital information, there are many problems to be realized. In addition, since the electronic album will eventually become a “paste” type electronic album, the basic problems pointed out in the section 0002 are also common in this case.
JP 2001-167115 A JP 2002-82957 A JP 2002-358310 A Easy Homepage Builder 7 User's Guide (IBM Japan, Ltd.) Chapter 5 “Everybody Deployment Mode”

  In view of the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks, the present invention makes (1) the flow of the process by making the flow of the process of creating / thinking the three information elements of a photograph, a map, and a travel sentence the same as the process of creating an electronic album. Two times of "paste" by eliminating the disobedience of disagreement and (2) working on the work surface by associating the three information element databases of photos, maps, and travel reports in a simple way It is an object of the present invention to provide an “easy association electronic album creation support system” that eliminates labor and (3) as a result, greatly reduces labor and time and improves quality.

  The above and other objects and novel features of the present invention will become more fully apparent when the following description is read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, the drawings are for explanation only, and do not limit the descriptive scope of the present invention.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention of claim 1 makes it possible to independently create information elements databases of photographs, maps, and travel sentences in accordance with human natural thinking / creation processes. The association between these information element databases is to create a new form of electronic album that introduces a technique for making associations by creating hyperlinks with each other. It is characterized by being an “Easyly related electronic album creation support system” composed of support software.

  The invention according to claim 2 is the easy-to-associate electronic album creation support system according to claim 1, wherein the database configuration includes “photo table of contents”, “detailed photo collection”, “map”, “journey sentence”, these four Consists of two databases. The photo table of contents is a collection of image data representing a journey, and is a database of web format folder structure of still images. The detailed photo book is a collection of image data subdivided into the same locations and groups, and is a database of folder or file structure in any of the web format, slide show format, and video format of still images or moving images. The map is a database of web format folder structure composed of map information, and the travel sentence is a database of web format file structure composed of travel description information. The structure and attributes of these databases, together with the support software described in claim 3, are the basis of an easy-to-associate electronic album creation support system that realizes a new form of electronic album.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the easy association electronic album creation support system according to the first or second aspect of the present invention, the support software is not limited to a pasting method that is generally used in the past. Introducing a link-based method, and as a method for this, use a “link destination pointer” and “HTML label (= HTML name)” and a newly devised “table format related diagram” to achieve association in a simple way. It is a thing. That is, add a link destination pointer to the same location / group in the web format database of the photo table of contents, map, and travel report, add an HTML label to it, and use them as the basic elements of association. In the “Table Format Related Diagrams”, as the identifiers used for associating the same location and the same group, the HTML table attached to the location / group is used for the photo table of contents, the map, and the travel sentence.・ Associating using the folder name or file name assigned to the group. The support software sequentially reads out the HTML labels to be processed from the table format related figure, finds a file containing the HTML label from the photo table of contents folder and the map folder, and finds the found photo table of contents file and map file. And for each travel document file specified in the table format related diagram, in the link destination pointer description part to which the HTML label is attached, based on the specification of the table format related diagram, photo table of contents, detailed photo book, map , Generate additional hyperlink descriptions to the relevant part of the travel sentence database. These hyperlink methods, utilization of link destination pointers and HTML labels, table format related diagrams, folder / file search functions, and additional generation of hyperlink descriptions are the basic elements of support software. It is a basic feature.

As is clear from the above description, the present invention has the following effects.
(1) The present invention makes it possible to independently create information element databases for photographs, maps, and travel sentences in accordance with human natural thinking and creation processes. , It creates a new form of electronic album that associates by creating hyperlinks to each other, and it is composed of an easy-to-associate electronic album creation support system that enables this to be done easily. The creation of an electronic album can be made in line with the natural flow of thought without human interruption. Therefore, it is possible to make an album with higher quality.

(2) In the above (1), in order to create each database that is the pre-stage of the association work, general commercial application software is used. You can choose the one that suits your taste, so you have a wide range of choices. In particular, there are many commercial application software that can create a database with excellent functions, ease of use, and a great appearance for creating a photo table of contents and detailed photo book database, but I am happy to be able to take advantage of these advantages. That is. In addition, the interface between the database created by the commercial application software and the support software of the present invention adopts industry standard web format, slide show format, video format, folder, file, and HTML label, and is highly versatile.

(3) According to (1) above, even on the work surface, the three information element databases of photos, maps, and travel sentences can be correlated in a simple manner, so that a commercially available website creation tool can be used. Anyone with any skill level can easily create an electronic album using the present invention. Not only do we have to do the work twice, such as pasting and fitting, but also the use of HTML labels and table format related diagrams dramatically reduces the association work, which required a great deal of manual labor required for the past association. Time is greatly reduced and accuracy is improved.

(4) If there is an existing electronic album, “Additional post-processing” can be performed by adding a map, a travel report, and a detailed photo album to the user at any time later. Can be enriched. However, in this case, the existing album needs to satisfy the condition of the above-mentioned item 0009.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the best mode for carrying out the invention shown in the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration and association of a database in the best mode created by utilizing the easy association electronic album creation support system of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the database includes “photo table of contents” 1, “detailed photo book” 2, “map” 3, “journey sentence” 4, and these four databases. The photo table of contents 1 is a collection of image data representative of a journey (may be image data pasted with a description, a link destination pointer, etc.), and is a database of web format folder structure of still images. The detailed photo book 2 is a collection of image data subdivided into the same locations and groups (may be image data with explanations pasted), and is in the web format, slide show format, video format of still images or videos. A database of folder or file structure in either format. The map 3 is a database of web format folder structure composed of map information, and the travel sentence 4 is a database of web format file structure composed of travel description information. Normal home personal computer (central processing unit, memory storage device, hard disk storage device, image display device, printing device, CD-ROM device, keyboard, mouse, Internet communication device, and other input / output devices as required by the user , An operating system, a web browser, etc.) to satisfy the overall design specifications, using a commercially available application software, a database of photo contents 1, detailed photo book 2, map 3, travel record 4 And store these databases in the same directory on your computer's hard disk.

  The travel history database has a file structure here, but is not limited thereto, and can be changed to a folder structure if necessary. In that case, it is necessary to change the support software to the related department.

  Next, a “link destination pointer” (described later) for displaying the link destination is added to the same location and the same group in the web format database of the photo table of contents 1, the map 3, and the travel record 4 , “HTML label (= HTML name)” is defined (= attached) for the notation. For this work, if a commercially available homepage creation tool or the like is used, it is possible to easily add a simple link destination pointer to an elaborate complicated one, and an HTML label can be easily defined. For example, with the homepage creation software on the market, the screens of the same location / group that you want to associate in each database of Photo Contents 1, Map 3, and Travel Journal 4 are called simultaneously or sequentially, and these three screens are displayed. In this method, a link destination pointer is added at a location where a link destination is desired to be specified, and an HTML label is defined there. Link destination pointers are added as many times as there are identical locations / groups to be associated, and HTML labels are defined. The HTML labels defined in one and the same place / group among the three databases of Table of Contents 1, Map 3, and Travel Statement 4 have a unique common name (the same label must not be defined in multiple places in the same database). The contents of the link destination pointer with the label may be different. For example, “link destination pointer” is “link destination X (detailed photo, map, travel sentence)” in photo table of contents 1 and “link destination Y (detailed photo, photo table of contents, travel sentence)”, travel record 4 in map 3 Then, “link destination Z (detailed photo, photo table of contents, map)”. When the same location / group defined in a certain database does not have the corresponding location / group in another database, there is no need to add the link destination pointer or define the HTML label in the other database. Similarly, in the detailed photo book 2, when there is no same location / group to be associated, it is not necessary to create a folder or file corresponding to the same location / group. In addition, the method of notation of the link destination pointer is not limited to the above example, and unless the meaning as a positional parameter is changed, various notations can be made by combining characters, illustrations, photos, symbols, symbols, etc. It may be changed, or the size and color may be changed. Moreover, you may utilize a part of description of photograph description or a travel sentence as a part of description of a link destination pointer. Depending on this devise, the aesthetics on the display screen of the photo table of contents 1, the map 3, and the bulletin sentence 4 can be improved and easy to see, and the text on the display screen overlaps with the text, pictures, diagrams, and photographs in the background. Can be minimized. In addition, the order of the positional parameters of the link destinations XXX, YYY, and ZZZ of “link destination (XXX, YYY, ZZZ)” may be arbitrarily defined as long as they are uniquely defined. It is possible to omit parts or add new ones. In that case, it is necessary to change the support software to the related department. Also, as defined by the HTML grammar, on the display screen, the HTML label is displayed on the HTML description source editing screen, but the HTML label is not displayed on the execution screen, while the link destination pointer is displayed. Is displayed on both editing and execution screens (however, illustrations and photos etc. are displayed only on the HTML description source editing screen, and on the execution screen the intended illustrations and photos are displayed. ).

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the function and table format relation diagram of the support software of the present invention. The same location and the same group to be associated are defined in “table format related diagram” 11 shown in FIG.
In FIG. 11, a photo table of contents folder name 12 (for example, mokuji), a map folder name 13 (for example, chizu), and a travel sentence file name 14 (for example, kikou) to be associated are described. Next, in order to indicate the same location / group that you want to associate, the HTML label (common name) attached to the location in the photo table of contents 1, the map 3, and the travel statement 4 is described in the HTML label column 16 as in the example of Mt. Fuji 18 . The detailed photo album folder name or file name column 17 describes the detailed photo album folder name or file name to be associated with the detailed photo album folder or file name as an example, such as folder = fujisan19. This is described in succession for the number of HTML labels to be related. Although there are exceptions, there are cases where there are no identical parts / groups to be related in some databases for a certain HTML label among the four databases of photo index 1, detailed photo book 2, map 3, and travel record 4. There may be.

  The support software of the present invention supports the user's creation of the table format related diagram 11 by the conversation guidance method. That is, when the support software first receives the folder name 12 of the table of contents 1, the folder name 13 of the map 3, and the file name 14 of the travel record 4 in a conversational format, the HTML of each of those databases is received. Automatically search the description source and find the new HTML label, and create the table format related diagram 11 in a way that the user responds in a conversational manner the folder name or file name 19 of the detailed photo book 2 to be associated with it Then, when the new HTML label disappears and the table format related diagram 11 is completed, it is saved as one file in the same directory as the above-mentioned various databases on the hard disk.

  The design and method of the table format related diagram 11 are not limited to this, and various designs and methods such as a positional parameter format, a keyword parameter format, a conversation guidance method, and a text file reading method may be used.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the support software of the present invention. The support software of the present invention reads a table format related diagram file (step S1), and reads one HTML label 18 to be associated based on the related diagram 11 (step S2). A file including the HTML label is found from the photo table of contents folder 12 and the map folder 13. Next, a file to be associated is found from the detailed photo album folder 19. And the path information (path information of the drive / directory / file to which it belongs) for the four files of the photo table of contents, the detailed photo book, the map file and the travel history file 14 specified in the table format related figure 11 found. Is acquired (step S3). In the HTML description of the found photo table of contents file, in the HTML description part where the label 18 is defined, that is, the link destination pointer “link destination X (detailed photo, map, travel report)” , To each of these links, ie, the top of the detailed photobook file, then the location of the map file with the HTML label, and the location of the travel document file with the HTML label. A hyperlink HTML description 22 is generated and added (step S4). Next, in the HTML description of the found map file, the location where the label 18 is defined, that is, the link destination pointer “link destination Y (detailed photo, photo table of contents, travel report)” HTML description part. In the respective link destinations, that is, the top of the detailed photo album file, the place where the HTML label is attached to the photo table of contents file, and the place where the HTML label is attached to the travel sentence file, Hyperlink HTML descriptions 23 to three locations are generated and added (step S5). Furthermore, in the HTML description of the travel document file, the location where the label 18 is defined, that is, the link destination pointer “link destination Z (detailed photo, photo table of contents, map)” HTML description portion, respectively. Hyperlink HTML to the top of the detailed photo book file, the location of the photo table of contents file with the HTML label, and the location of the map file with the HTML label. A description 24 is generated and added (step S6). This completes the process for one HTML label to be associated. This process is continued until there is no HTML label to be associated (step S7).

  The electronic album database composed of photos, maps, and travel reports created above is not only travel albums, but also tour guides, travel guides, road guides, event venue guides, ski course guides, museum guides, exhibition guides It can be used for various databases such as sales floor guidance. In that case, what is necessary is just to replace a photograph and a map with the content according to the objective. In addition, the travel sentence may be replaced with an explanatory sentence, a guidance sentence, or a description that meets each purpose.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a database configuration and association in the best mode, which is created by utilizing the easy association electronic album creation support system of the present invention.

  FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of an electronic album in which a representative image is selected as a “photo table of contents” database and image images are arranged in the time series of shooting without making a table of contents, and that is used as a photo table of contents. is there.

  FIG. 5 shows a database structure of a tourist guide created by utilizing the present invention.

  FIG. 6 shows a database structure of an exhibition hall guide created by utilizing the present invention.

It is a block diagram which shows the database structure and correlation in the best embodiment produced using the easy association electronic album creation assistance system of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the function of the support software of this invention, and a "table format related figure." It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of the assistance software of this invention. The database structure and association in the case where the photographed time-series images are used as they are in the photo table of contents are shown. It represents the database structure and association of a tourism guide created by utilizing the present invention. The database structure and association of an exhibition hall guide created by utilizing the present invention are shown.

Explanation of symbols

1: Photo table of contents database,
2: Detailed photo book database,
3: Map database,
4: Traveling database,
11: Table format related chart,
12: Photo table of contents folder name field,
13: Map folder name field,
14: Journal file name field,
15: A table showing the association between the HTML label and the detailed photo book,
16: HTML table of contents, map, HTML label column attached to the same location / group in the travel description HTML description,
17: Detailed photo book folder or file name field corresponding to the label name indicating the same location / group,
18: Example of label name indicating the same location / group,
19: Examples of folder names for detailed photo collections
20: Processing work performed by the support software of the present invention,
21: A result of processing work of the support software of the present invention,
22: Among the above-mentioned deliverables, deliverables related to the description of the photographic contents HTML,
23: Among the above-mentioned deliverables, deliverables related to the map HTML description,
24: Among the above-mentioned deliverables, deliverables related to the description of the HTML document
25: Detailed photobook database (no change before and after processing of support software).

Claims (3)

  It is possible to independently create information elements databases for photographs, maps, and travel sentences in accordance with human natural thinking and creation processes. An easy-to-associate electronic album creation support system composed of a database configuration and support software that creates an electronic album by introducing a method of associating by creating a database.   In the easy-to-associate electronic album creation support system described in “Claim 1”, the database configuration is composed of “photo table of contents”, “detailed photo book”, “map”, “journey sentence”, and these four databases. A photo table of contents is a collection of image data that represents a journey, a database of still-image web format folder structure, and a detailed photo collection is a collection of image data subdivided into the same locations and groups, Database of folder or file structure in video web format, slide show format or video format, map is a database of web format folder structure consisting of map information, and travel sentence is web format file structure consisting of travel description information Easy-to-associate electronic album creation support system Temu. In the easy-to-associate electronic album creation support system described in "Claim 1" or "Claim 2", the association is to be associated as the same location / group in each web format database of photo table of contents, map, and travel sentence. Add “link destination pointer” to the location, add “HTML label (= HTML name)” to it, and use them as the basic elements of association.・ As an identifier used for associating the same group, the HTML label attached to the location / group is used for the table of contents, the map, and the travel sentence, and the folder name or file name attached to the location / group is used for the detailed photo book. The HTML labels to be processed are sequentially read from the table format relation diagram. The file containing the HTML label is found in the photo table of contents folder and the map folder, and each of the found photo table of contents file and map file, and the bulletin sentence file specified in the table format related diagram are found. In the link destination pointer description part to which the HTML label is attached, based on the specification of the table format related figure, additional generation of the hyperlink description to the part of the photo table of contents, detailed photo book, map, travel history database Easily related electronic album creation support system characterized by performing.

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