JP2005242496A - Text data processing device, program, and memory medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly display text data in a two-dimensional display without damaging an intention of a text maker even though a display device at a receiving side has no functions for 3D display, when receiving the text data applying 3D effects on characters or a string of characters through mail or the like. <P>SOLUTION: Attribute information such as a tag or the like for input text data T1 is rewritten under conversion rules specified with a conversion rule table, and the input text data T1 is converted into output text data T2. The conversion rule table is formed to include a conversion rule converting the tag giving 3D effects on the characters or a string of characters into 2D decorating characters (italic type:italic), and a conversion rule for increasing font sizes of the characters or a string of characters in proportion to a magnitude (the amount of pop-up) of 3D effects. On the basis of this conversion processing, text data can be smoothly and effectively displayed even if a function for the 3D display is not available. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

The present invention relates to a text data processing device, a program, and a storage medium storing the same, and is particularly suitable for use when mutually converting and displaying 3D stereoscopic display data and 2D display data.

  At present, electronic text data is accompanied by various attributes such as size and typeface as well as simple character codes. Since these attributes can be freely set in units of characters or character strings, sentences can be expressed in various forms by appropriately changing the attributes.

  On the other hand, in the field of image display technology, image display methods using a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect (3D effect) are being studied and developed. Here, the 3D effect is to give an observer a stereoscopic image by giving an image with parallax to the left and right eyes of the observer. Using such a 3D effect, even a simple text sentence can be expressed as an impact sentence.

  As described above, if a character or character string constituting a sentence is given a 3D effect, the visual effect of the sentence can be remarkably enhanced. However, when such electronic text data is transmitted by e-mail or the like, When the display device on the receiving side is not equipped with a function for performing 3D display, there is a disadvantage that the electronic text data cannot be displayed smoothly.

  In general, electronic text data is often described in a format such as XML, and the 3D effect is usually realized by describing it as attribute information in a character or a character string. Therefore, if the attribute indicating the 3D effect is deleted from the electronic text data and changed to the character string attribute (no attribute is specified) by the normal two-dimensional display (2D display), it is displayed on the display device on the receiving side. Even if the corresponding function is not provided, the received electronic text data can be displayed as a normal character string. However, if this is done, the display effect added by the text creator will be spoiled, and the intention of the text creator may not be correctly communicated to the recipient.

Patent Document 1 shown below describes a technique for converting a character modification of a specific character or character string into another character modification. That is, the character code of the character or character string to be converted and its control code (indicating the form of character modification), and the character code of the character or character string after conversion and its control code (indicating the form of character modification) Set appropriately, search for the character or character string to be converted from the text according to such setting conditions, and convert the searched character or character string to the character code of the converted character or character string and its control code, That's it.
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  The present invention is also applicable to the case where electronic text data in which a 3D effect is applied to a character or a character string is transmitted by e-mail or the like, for example, when there is no function for performing 3D display on the display device on the receiver side. It is an object of the present invention to provide a text data processing apparatus, a program, and a storage medium storing the text data processing apparatus that can smoothly display such electronic text data in two dimensions without impairing the intention of the text creator.

On the other hand, by adding a 3D effect to a normal character or character string for two-dimensional display as appropriate, a text having a higher impact than a normal two-dimensional display on a display device having a 3D display function. It is an object of the present invention to provide a text data processing device, a program, and a storage medium storing the text data processing device that can perform display.

  The invention of claim 1 relates to a text data processing device, wherein a conversion rule storage means for storing a conversion rule for converting attribute information of a character or a character string into other attribute information, and an attribute corresponding to the conversion rule An attribute search means for searching for text or a character string having information from text data; and an attribute conversion means for converting attribute information of the character or character string searched by the attribute search means according to the conversion rule, The conversion rule includes a rule for converting attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect to a character or a character string into attribute information that gives a two-dimensional predetermined character modification effect.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the text data processing device according to the first aspect, the conversion rule approximates the attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect to a stereoscopic display such as an italic character or a shaded character. It includes a rule for converting to attribute information that gives a character modification effect of a dimension.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the text data processing device according to the first or second aspect, the conversion rule includes a rule for changing a font size of a two-dimensional character in accordance with a magnitude of a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect. It is characterized by.

  The invention according to claim 4 relates to a text data processing device, wherein a conversion rule storage means for storing a conversion rule for converting attribute information of a character or character string into other attribute information, and an attribute corresponding to the conversion rule Attribute conversion means for searching for text or character strings having information from text data; and attribute conversion means for converting attribute information of characters or character strings searched by the search means in accordance with the conversion rule, the conversion The rules include a rule for converting attribute information that gives a two-dimensional predetermined character modification effect to characters or character strings into attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the text data processing device according to the fourth aspect, the conversion rule includes attribute information that gives a two-dimensional character modification effect that approximates stereoscopic display, such as an italic character or a shaded character. It includes a rule for converting to attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect.

  According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the text data processing device according to the fourth or fifth aspect, the conversion rule includes a rule for changing a size of a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect according to a font size of a two-dimensional character. It is characterized by.

  The invention of claim 7 relates to a program for giving a text data conversion function to a computer, a conversion rule table for converting character or character string attribute information into other attribute information, and an attribute corresponding to the conversion rule An attribute search process for searching for text or a character string having information from text data; and an attribute conversion process for converting attribute information of the character or character string searched by the attribute search process according to the conversion rule, The conversion rule table includes a rule for converting attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect to a character or a character string into attribute information that gives a predetermined two-dimensional character modification effect.

  The invention according to an eighth aspect is the program according to the seventh aspect, wherein the conversion rule table includes a two-dimensional display that approximates a three-dimensional display such as an italic character or a shaded character with attribute information that provides a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect. It includes a rule for converting to attribute information that gives a character modification effect.

  The invention according to claim 9 is the program according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the conversion rule table includes a rule for changing a font size of a two-dimensional character in accordance with a magnitude of a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect. And

  A tenth aspect of the present invention relates to a program for providing a text data conversion function to a computer, a conversion rule table for converting character or character string attribute information into other attribute information, and an attribute corresponding to the conversion rule. An attribute search process for searching a text or character string having information from text data; and an attribute conversion means for converting attribute information of the character or character string searched by the attribute search process according to the conversion rule, The conversion rule table includes a rule for converting attribute information that gives a two-dimensional predetermined character modification effect to a character or character string into attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect.

  According to an eleventh aspect of the present invention, in the program according to the tenth aspect, the conversion rule table includes attribute information that gives a two-dimensional character modification effect that approximates a three-dimensional display, such as an italic character or a shaded character. It includes a rule for converting into attribute information that gives a stereoscopic display effect.

  According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the program according to the tenth or eleventh aspect, the conversion rule table includes a rule for changing the size of the three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect according to the font size of the two-dimensional character. And

  A thirteenth aspect of the present invention is a storage medium storing the program according to any one of the seventh to twelfth aspects.

The features of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description of embodiments. However, the following embodiment is merely one embodiment of the present invention, and the meaning of the term of the present invention or each constituent element is not limited to that described in the following embodiment. Absent.

  According to the invention of claim 1 or 7, the text data is reconstructed by converting the attribute information of the character or character string to which the 3D effect is given into the attribute information to give a predetermined two-dimensional character modification effect. Therefore, even in a display device that does not have a 3D function, these characters or character strings can be displayed with appropriate emphasis, so that text data including characters or character strings to which a 3D effect is given can be displayed. The two-dimensional display can be smoothly performed without impairing the intention of the text creator.

  Further, according to the invention of claim 2 or 8, a character or a character string to which a 3D effect is given can be displayed in a form of two-dimensional character modification similar to the 3D effect, which is in accordance with the intention of the sentence creator. These characters can be displayed two-dimensionally in a closer form.

  Furthermore, according to the invention of claim 3 or 9, since the font size of the two-dimensional character is changed according to the magnitude of the 3D effect, the character or character string to which the 3D effect is given is further emphasized. The display state can be made closer to the intention of the text creator.

  According to the invention described in claim 4 or 10, the attribute information imparting a predetermined two-dimensional character modification effect is converted into attribute information imparting a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect, and text data is reconstructed. Therefore, on a display device having a 3D display function, it is possible to display these characters or character strings in a form that has more impact than normal two-dimensional display, and text that emphasizes the intention of the text creator. Display can be made.

  Moreover, according to the invention of claim 5 or 11, a character or a character string to which a two-dimensional character modification effect close to the 3D effect is given can be displayed in 3D, and the intention of the sentence creator can be further improved. Can be emphasized properly.

  Furthermore, according to the invention of claim 6 or 12, since the size of the 3D effect is appropriately changed according to the font size of the two-dimensional character, the 3D effect according to the font size can be imparted, The intention of the author can be emphasized more appropriately.

  The invention of claim 13 is the one in which the present invention is extracted as a storage medium. Therefore, also in the invention of claim 13, the same effect as described above can be achieved.

In addition, the effects produced by the present invention will be further clarified by the following description of embodiments.

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

  First, FIG. 1 shows functional blocks of a text conversion processing tool according to the embodiment.

  Note that the functional blocks shown in the figure can be realized in a form in which a program or database for executing each function in a cooperative manner is installed in the apparatus, thereby giving the CPU the same function. Here, these programs and database may be installed in the apparatus in advance, or may be installed separately from the outside. Such installation can be performed not only by downloading via a public network such as the Internet, but also by a method of mounting a storage medium (such as a disk) storing the program and database on the apparatus.

  As illustrated, the text conversion processing tool includes a text search unit 201, a text conversion unit 202, and a conversion rule holding unit 203.

  The text search unit 201 searches the input text data T1 for a character or character string to which the corresponding attribute information is added, according to the conversion rule table stored in the conversion rule storage unit 203. The text conversion unit 202 converts the character or character string attribute information searched by the text search unit 201 according to the converter side table held in the conversion rule holding unit 203, and outputs the output text data T2. The text rule holding unit 203 stores a conversion rule table that converts predetermined attribute information into other attribute information among the attribute information of characters or character strings that can be included in the input text data T1.

  FIG. 2 shows a configuration example of a conversion rule table when the input text data T1 is 3D text data and the output text data T2 is 2D text data. Here, 3D text data and 2D text data are described in XML format.

  In such a configuration example, the conversion rule table converts a tag that gives a 3D effect to a character or character string into a 2D decoration character (italic) and the font size (attribute) of the character or character string to 3D. It is configured to include a conversion rule that increases in accordance with the magnitude of the effect (the amount of popping out). Here, the font size is set to increase by 1 pt (point) per unit pop-out amount.

  In the figure, <text font = 12pt> described in each text data indicates that the subsequent data is text data of font size = 12 pt, and </ text> indicates the end of the text data. Show. <3D d = 2> and <3D d = 1> described in the 3D text data give a 3D effect to the subsequent character or character string, and the amount of pop-out is set to level 2. (D = 2) and level 1 (d = 1). Here, the pop-out amount increases as the level value increases.

  Also, <it font = 14pt> and <it font = 13pt> described in 2D text data are the italic characters (it: italic) whose font size is 14pt and 13pt in the subsequent character string or character string. This indicates that the modification is applied, and </ it> indicates that the character modification ends.

  FIG. 3 shows a flowchart for converting the input text data T1 according to the conversion table.

  When the conversion process starts, the input text data T1 (3D) is input to the text search unit 201 (S101), and the character or character string in the input text data T1 to which the tag for imparting the 3D effect is added. A character string is searched (S102). At this time, if there is a character or character string to which a tag for imparting the 3D effect is added, the pop-out amount of the character or character string is simultaneously extracted. Then, the extracted information, the input text data T1, and the conversion rule table held in the conversion rule holding unit 203 are provided to the text conversion unit 202 (S103).

  The text conversion unit 203 converts the character or character string tag searched in S102 to italic (it: italic) according to the conversion rule table, and sets the font size of the character or character string to a 3D pop-up amount. The number of points is increased correspondingly and converted into two-dimensional text data (S104). Then, the converted text data is output as output text data T2.

  FIG. 4 shows a display output example in such a case.

  The lower left side of the figure is an example of display output when the input text data T1 (3D) is displayed in 3D, and the lower right side of the figure is when the converted output text data T2 (2D) is displayed in 2D. Is a display output example.

  As shown in the figure, according to the above processing, a character string to which a 3D effect is given (a character string surrounded by a dotted line in the figure) can be two-dimensionally displayed in italic enlarged characters. Therefore, the character string to which the 3D effect is given can be emphasized in the two-dimensional display. Therefore, the intention of the creator who created the input text data T1 can be reflected in the two-dimensional display, and the intention of the creator can be appropriately transmitted and displayed even in an apparatus having only a two-dimensional display function.

  In the above, when converting 3D text data to 2D text data, the character modification form (italic) and font size are converted simultaneously, but only the character modification form (italic) is converted, Alternatively, even if only the font size is converted, the enhancement effect of the 3D character string can be exhibited.

  In the above description, the form of character modification is italic, but other forms of character modification similar to 3D display, such as shaded characters and bold characters, may be employed.

  Further, in the above, the pop-up amount of the 3D effect is simply expressed as a numerical value (d = 1, 2,...), But a description in units such as mm and cm, “large”, “medium” , “Small”, etc. In this case as well, the font size may be changed according to the amount of popping out.

  By the way, in the above, the conversion rule table when converting 3D text data into 2D text data is exemplified, and the processing flow and display output example using this are exemplified. However, the conversion rule table is represented by 2D text data. Can be configured to convert 3D data into 3D text data. For example, contrary to the above, when a tag to which a 2D character decoration (for example, italic) is added to a character or a character string, the tag of the character or the character string is set as a tag that gives a 3D effect. When the conversion rule to be converted is included in the conversion rule table or attribute information that makes the font size of characters or character strings larger than normal is described, the amount of pop-up according to the increase in font size is added to the attribute information. A conversion rule for converting to attribute information to be displayed in 3D may be included in the conversion rule table.

  For example, contrary to the above, the conversion rule stipulates that, when the character modification tag is italic, this tag is converted into a tag that gives a 3D effect with a pop-up amount corresponding to the font size. If this is the case, the 2D text data shown in FIG. 4 can be converted into the 3D text data shown in FIG. 4, and as shown in the lower left side of FIG. Thus, these characters or character strings can be displayed in 3D.

In the above description, data is described in the XML format. However, the present invention can be implemented in any data format in which attributes such as font, italics, and 3D are added as modification information to characters and character strings. is there.

  An embodiment when the text conversion processing tool is applied to a mobile terminal device will be described.

  In the present embodiment, the text conversion processing tool is mounted by, for example, downloading from the public network to the memory in the mobile terminal device via the communication module 101 shown in FIG. Further, the portable terminal device shown in the figure is not provided with a 3D display function, and therefore, the implemented text conversion tool executes a function of converting 3D text data into 2D text data.

  As illustrated, the mobile terminal device includes a communication module 101, a communication processing unit 102, an operation panel 103, an input processing unit 104, a monitor panel 105, a display control unit 106, an audio input / output device 107, an audio A processing unit 108, a CPU 109, and a RAM 110 are provided.

  The communication module 101 includes a wireless communication module such as an antenna and communicates with the public network via radio waves. The communication processing unit 102 performs processing according to a communication protocol on data transmitted / received via the communication module 101.

  The operation panel 103 includes operation means such as operation keys, and outputs a signal corresponding to the operation result to the input processing unit 104. The input processing unit 104 converts the signal received from the operation panel 103 into data and outputs the data to the control unit 109.

  The monitor panel 105 includes display means such as a liquid crystal monitor and displays a display screen corresponding to processing from the display control unit 106. The display control unit 106 generates a display screen according to the image data input from the control unit 109 and displays it on the monitor panel 105.

  The audio input / output IF (interface) 107 includes an interface for inputting / outputting audio, outputs the audio signal input from the audio input means to the audio processing unit 108, and responds to the audio signal received from the audio processing unit 108. The voice is output from the voice output means. The audio processing unit 108 converts the audio signal received from the audio input / output IF 107 into audio data and outputs it to the control unit 109, and converts the audio data received from the control unit 109 into an audio signal and outputs it to the audio input / output IF 107. Output.

  The CPU 109 executes various processes according to various programs installed in the mobile terminal device. The RAM 110 sequentially stores various data handled by the CPU 109.

  For example, when mail data including a text data file is received from the public network, the mail data is acquired and analyzed by the CPU 109 according to the mail processing program and stored in the RAM 110. At this time, if the text data file stored in the RAM 110 is 3D text data, it is converted into 2D text data by the CPU 109 according to the text data conversion processing program and stored in the RAM 110 as a separate file. Such conversion processing is performed as described with reference to FIGS.

  Thereafter, when a display command for the text data file is input via the operation panel 103, the CPU 109 reads 2D text data from the RAM 110, generates image data, and outputs the image data to the display control unit 106. In response to this, the display control unit 106 generates an image corresponding to the 2D text data and displays it on the monitor panel 105. Thereby, for example, an image as shown on the lower right side of FIG. 4 is displayed on the monitor panel 105.

  In the present embodiment, the application example of the above embodiment has been described by taking a mobile terminal device having no 3D display function as an example. However, the above embodiment is applied to a mobile terminal device having a 3D display function. In some cases, instead of a text conversion tool that executes a function of converting 3D text data into 2D text data, a text conversion tool that executes a function of converting 2D text data into 3D text data is mounted on the portable terminal device. . In this case, when the text data file received by mail is 2D text data, the text conversion tool is activated, and the CPU 109 executes processing for converting 2D text data into 3D text data. Then, the converted 3D text data is stored in the RAM 110 as a separate file. The conversion process is as described above.

  In this case, the text data can be displayed and output in any 3D / 2D display form. Therefore, the user may be inquired as to which display form to display, and the display output form (3D / 2D) may be set as appropriate in accordance with a selection command corresponding thereto. Alternatively, it may be normally displayed in 3D and changed to 2D in response to a switching command from the user. Conversely, it is normally displayed in 2D and changed to 3D in response to a switching command from the user. You may make it do.

  In any case of this embodiment, at the time of mail transfer, any 3D / 2D text data can be transmitted to the transfer destination. Therefore, at the time of mail transfer, the user may be inquired which text data is to be transmitted.

  In addition to the mail data, the browsing process may be performed according to the 3D / 2D display form of the receiving terminal when browsing a homepage having a 3D tag.

As mentioned above, although embodiment which concerns on this invention was described, this invention is not limited to the said embodiment, It cannot be overemphasized that a various change is possible for others. The embodiments of the present invention can be appropriately modified in various ways within the scope of the technical idea shown in the claims.

Functional block diagram of a text conversion tool according to an embodiment The figure which shows an example of the conversion rule table which concerns on embodiment The flowchart which shows the text data conversion process which concerns on embodiment The figure which shows the example of a conversion process of the text data which concerns on embodiment The figure which shows the structure of the portable terminal device which concerns on an Example.

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201 Text Search Unit 202 Text Conversion Unit 203 Conversion Rule Holding Unit

Claims (13)

A conversion rule storage means for storing a conversion rule for converting character or character string attribute information into other attribute information;
Attribute search means for searching text data for characters or character strings having attribute information according to the conversion rule;
Attribute conversion means for converting the attribute information of the character or character string searched by the attribute search means according to the conversion rule,
The conversion rule includes a rule for converting attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect to a character or a character string into attribute information that gives a two-dimensional predetermined character modification effect.
A text data processing apparatus characterized by that. In claim 1,
The conversion rule includes a rule for converting attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect into attribute information that gives a two-dimensional character modification effect that approximates stereoscopic display, such as italic characters or shaded characters.
A text data processing apparatus characterized by that. In claim 1 or 2,
The conversion rule includes a rule for changing a font size of a two-dimensional character according to a size of a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect.
A text data processing apparatus characterized by that. A conversion rule storage means for storing a conversion rule for converting character or character string attribute information into other attribute information;
Attribute search means for searching text data for characters or character strings having attribute information according to the conversion rule;
Attribute conversion means for converting the attribute information of the character or character string searched by the search means according to the conversion rule,
The conversion rule includes a rule for converting attribute information that imparts a predetermined two-dimensional character modification effect to a character or character string into attribute information that imparts a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect.
A text data processing apparatus characterized by that. In claim 4,
The conversion rule includes a rule for converting attribute information that gives a two-dimensional character modification effect that approximates stereoscopic display, such as italic characters or shaded characters, to attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect.
A text data processing apparatus characterized by that. In claim 4 or 5,
The conversion rule includes a rule for changing the size of the three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect according to the font size of the two-dimensional character.
A text data processing apparatus characterized by that. A program for giving a text data conversion function to a computer,
A conversion rule table for converting character or character string attribute information into other attribute information;
Attribute search processing for searching text data for characters or character strings having attribute information according to the conversion rule;
An attribute conversion process for converting the attribute information of the character or character string searched by the attribute search process according to the conversion rule,
The conversion rule table includes a rule for converting attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect to a character or a character string into attribute information that gives a predetermined two-dimensional character modification effect.
A program characterized by that. In claim 7,
The conversion rule table includes a rule for converting attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect into attribute information that gives a two-dimensional character modification effect that approximates stereoscopic display, such as italic characters or shaded characters.
A program characterized by that. In claim 7 or 8,
The conversion rule table includes a rule for changing the font size of a two-dimensional character according to the size of a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect.
A program characterized by that. A program for giving a text data conversion function to a computer,
A conversion rule table for converting character or character string attribute information into other attribute information;
Attribute search processing for searching text data for characters or character strings having attribute information according to the conversion rule;
Attribute conversion means for converting the attribute information of the character or character string searched by the attribute search processing according to the conversion rule;
The conversion rule table includes a rule for converting attribute information that gives a predetermined two-dimensional character modification effect to a character or a character string into attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect.
A program characterized by that. In claim 10,
The conversion rule table includes rules for converting attribute information that gives a two-dimensional character modification effect that approximates stereoscopic display, such as italic characters or shaded characters, to attribute information that gives a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect.
A program characterized by that. In claim 10 or 11,
The conversion rule table includes a rule for changing the size of a three-dimensional stereoscopic display effect according to a font size of a two-dimensional character.
A program characterized by that.   A storage medium storing the program according to any one of claims 7 to 12.

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