JP2006031476A - Electronic device system, server system, web page processing method, and program thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic device system which can surely perform displaying easy for users to browse, suitable for displaying environment regardless of the description language of a Web page and the property of a browser, a server system, a Web page processing method, and program thereof. <P>SOLUTION: When an Web page adaptation engine 14 of the server 100 receives URL and device profile from a PDA 200, the engine sets a display area frame same as a display part of the PDA on a VRAM according to the received device profile and downloads an Web page of the URL. And, the engine draws internally the Web page on the VRAM, and determines whether a problem such as horizontal scrolling arises or not when displaying to the display part of the PDA 200 by whether the Web page exceeds the display area frame or not. When it determines that there is a problem, it performs appropriate conversion, transmits to the PDA 200, to display. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic device device, a server device, a content processing method, and a program thereof that can process a Web (World Wide Web) page and optimally display it according to a display environment.

  In general, when browsing Web pages based on HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) on PDA (Personal Digital Assistants), mobile terminals such as mobile phones, and home appliances such as television sets, PC (Personal Computer Compared to), there are restrictions on the size and resolution of the display screen. For example, horizontal scrolling or inadvertent line breaks of characters may occur. In some cases, the operation is burdensome.

So, for example, in a mobile phone, read profile information such as the display screen area and font size of the mobile phone, and based on that, delete content that is determined to be unnecessary according to certain rules, There is a technique for converting a Web page by omitting an image. There is also a technique of selecting an optimum font size of a displayed text according to the area of the display screen (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
JP 2002-156957 A (paragraph [0065], FIG. 15)

  However, in the technology using the profile information described above, since conversion is performed based on unique rule assignment, it cannot be applied well to various contents, and the converted page is also difficult for the user to view. There was a case. In other words, factors such as font size, HTML grammar, prohibition processing, etc. may cause inappropriate wrapping in the converted text. It was difficult to judge whether or not At the same time, because the elements in the table may not be displayed correctly due to differences in the nature and characteristics of the layouting engine in the installed browser, the above-mentioned difficulty of viewing can be understood only after rendering. There was a case.

  Further, even in the technique of selecting a font according to the area of the display screen described above, since there is a limit to the number of characters that can be displayed on one screen, it is not possible to display all the characters in the Web page. There was a problem that it became difficult to read when the characters became smaller.

  In view of the circumstances as described above, an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic apparatus device that can reliably display a user-friendly display suitable for the display environment, regardless of the description language of the Web page and the nature of the browser, A server apparatus, a Web page processing method, and a program thereof are provided.

In order to solve the above-described problem, an electronic device of the present invention includes an acquisition unit that acquires a Web page, a drawing unit that internally draws the acquired Web page,
A determination means for determining whether or not a display failure occurs when the drawn Web page is displayed on a display unit; and when the failure is determined to occur, the drawn Web page is It is characterized by comprising conversion means for converting so as to eliminate the problem, and display means for displaying the converted web page on the display unit.

  The electronic device is a device having a display unit such as a PDA (Personal Digital Assistance) or a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, a television set, or the like.

  Moreover, drawing internally means drawing in the drawing area inside the electronic apparatus without being visually displayed on the display unit.

  For example, due to factors such as the size of the display area of the electronic device and the display capability of the browser of the electronic device, the problem may be that the Web page cannot be browsed unless the Web page is scrolled horizontally. In addition, when the characters in the web page are folded to the next line at the right end of the display unit, it is difficult for the user to view the web page.

  According to this configuration, before actually displaying the Web page, the internal page is drawn in advance in advance to determine whether or not the above problem occurs. Since it is displayed after performing the conversion, more accurate conversion processing can be performed, thereby ensuring a display suitable for the display environment and easy for the user to view regardless of the description language of the Web page and the nature of the browser. Can be done.

  In the electronic apparatus, the determination unit includes a unit that compares an area of the rendered web page region with an area of the display region of the display unit, and the conversion unit performs the determination by the determination unit. When it is determined that the area of the Web page area is larger, the Web page may be converted in accordance with the area of the display area of the display unit. As a result, in a display environment with a limited display area such as a mobile terminal such as a PDA or a mobile phone, the contents of a high-resolution Web page designed for a PC (Personal Computer) can be easily viewed by the user. It can be reliably converted and displayed.

  In the electronic device, the acquired Web page is composed of a plurality of frames, the conversion unit includes a dividing unit that divides the rendered Web page for each frame, and the display unit includes: Of the divided frames, the frame with the largest area may be displayed.

  Here, the reason why the frame having the largest area is displayed is that there is a high possibility that information having higher importance than that of other frames is described in the frame.

  As a result, even if the Web page is composed of a plurality of frames and displayed on the display unit as it is, for example, each frame becomes extremely small and it is difficult for the user to view the frames. Can be displayed in an easy-to-use manner.

  The electronic apparatus device further includes means for acquiring importance information indicating importance of a frame constituting the acquired Web page, and the display means is based on the acquired importance. A frame having a high value may be displayed with priority over other frames. Thus, by assigning priorities to the frames based on the importance, it is possible to prevent a frame in which information important to the user is described from being difficult to view.

  As a method for obtaining the importance information, it is conceivable to use RDF (Resource Description Framework). RDF is a framework for describing information (metadata) about information created by XML (eXtensible Markup Language). By adding various information about data to data, the usefulness of data is improved. Used to enhance.

  In the electronic device, the acquired web page is composed of a plurality of frames, and the conversion means includes a dividing means for dividing the rendered web page into the frames, and links to the frames. A first creation unit that creates the provided link page, and the display unit may display at least the created link page. Thus, by tracing the link destination from the link page, the contents of the entire web page can be easily viewed without performing operations such as horizontal scrolling even in a poor display environment such as a mobile terminal. It becomes possible.

  In the electronic device, the acquired web page includes at least a headline and a text related to the headline, and the conversion unit includes an extracting unit that extracts the text and the headline from the acquired web page, respectively. Second creation means for creating a body page including the extracted body text; and third creation means for creating a headline page including the extracted headline and provided with a link to the body page. And the display means may display at least the created headline page.

  As a result, when a certain heading is designated on the heading page, a body page related to the heading is displayed. Therefore, for example, even when browsing a Web page that includes a headline and a body, such as a news article, the page is divided into a headline and a body, and the pages are linked together to display them in a state that is easy to view according to the display environment. be able to. In addition, since the entire Web page is provided with a certain regularity, trial and error in operation until reaching each page can be eliminated, and browsing concentrated on the contents of the Web page itself can be eliminated. It becomes possible.

  Further, when the headline is composed of a headline and a subheading, and the body is composed of the headline body and a list of links to articles belonging to the subheading, the converting means includes the headline body. And a headline page including a list page of links to articles belonging to the subheading, a headline provided with a link to the body and a subheading provided with a link to the link list page, respectively. The display means may display at least the created headline page.

  The server device of the present invention acquires the Web page based on the receiving means for receiving URL information for acquiring the Web page from the electronic device connected via the network, and the received URL information. An acquisition unit; a drawing unit that internally draws the acquired Web page using a browser having a display capability similar to that of the electronic device device; and a display unit of the electronic device device that displays the drawn Web page When displaying on the screen, the determination means for determining whether or not there is a display failure, and when it is determined that the failure occurs, the rendered web page is converted so that the failure is eliminated. Conversion means, and transmission means for transmitting the converted Web page to the electronic device apparatus for displaying on the display unit of the electronic apparatus device. It is characterized in.

  According to this configuration, before the electronic apparatus device actually displays the Web page, the server device internally draws the Web page in advance to determine whether or not the problem occurs. When it is determined that a problem occurs, the electronic device is displayed after performing appropriate conversion. Therefore, the electronic device is suitable for the display environment regardless of the description language of the Web page and the nature of the browser. Thus, it is possible to reliably perform display that is easy for the user to browse. Also, compared to the case where the internal drawing process and the conversion process are performed in an electronic apparatus device having a processing capability lower than that of a PC such as a PDA or a mobile phone, the load on the electronic apparatus apparatus required for these processes is reduced. You can also

  The server device further includes a plurality of browsers having different display capabilities, and means for receiving, from the electronic device device, display capability information of a browser included in the electronic device device, and the drawing unit includes the received display capability. You may make it draw using the browser corresponding to the said display capability based on information.

  Specifically, the display capability information is, for example, the area of the display area of the display unit of the electronic device, the capacity of the storage area for drawing the Web page to be displayed, information on the manufacturer of the electronic device.

  As a method for receiving the display capability information of the browser included in the electronic device, it may be possible to use a user agent, CC / PP (Composite Capability / Preference Profiles), or the like. The user agent is an environment variable transmitted from the browser on the user side to the server so that it can be understood from what device the user is browsing the web page. CC / PP is an XML-based specification for describing the display capability of a mobile terminal recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In the present invention, data such as the display area of the electronic device may be added to the data in the user agent or CC / PP.

  Thereby, after appropriately grasping the display capability of the electronic device, the Web page can be rendered internally to determine whether or not the problem occurs.

  The Web page processing method according to the main aspect of the present invention includes a step of acquiring a Web page, a step of internally drawing the acquired Web page, and displaying the drawn Web page on a display unit. A step of determining whether or not there is a display defect; a step unit that converts the rendered web page so that the defect is resolved when it is determined that the problem occurs; And displaying the Web page on the display unit.

  A Web page processing method according to another aspect of the present invention includes a step of receiving URL information for acquiring a Web page from an electronic device connected via a network, and the received URL information is based on the received URL information. The step of acquiring the Web page, the step of internally drawing the acquired Web page using a browser having a display capability similar to that of the electronic device, and the drawing of the Web page When displaying on the display unit of the device apparatus, a step of determining whether or not a display failure occurs, and when it is determined that the failure occurs, the rendered Web page eliminates the failure. And converting the converted web page to the electronic device device to display the converted web page on the display unit of the electronic device device. It is characterized by comprising the steps of signal.

  A program according to a main aspect of the present invention includes a step of acquiring a Web page, a step of internally drawing the acquired Web page, and displaying the drawn Web page on a display unit. A step of determining whether or not a display failure occurs, and a step means for converting the rendered web page so as to eliminate the failure when it is determined that the failure occurs; and It functions as a step of displaying the converted web page on the display unit.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program for receiving a URL information for acquiring a Web page from an electronic device connected to a server device via a network, and the received URL information. A step of acquiring the Web page based on the above, a step of internally drawing the acquired Web page using a browser having a display capability similar to that of the electronic device, and the drawing of the Web page When displaying on the display unit of the electronic device, a step of determining whether or not a display failure occurs, and when it is determined that the failure occurs, the rendered Web page is resolved. The electronic device device for displaying the converted web page on the display unit of the electronic device device It is intended to function as the step of transmitting.

  According to the present invention, a user-friendly display suitable for the display environment can be reliably performed regardless of the description language of the Web page and the nature of the browser.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(First embodiment)
First, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a rough configuration of a display system according to the present embodiment.

  As shown in the figure, the display system according to this embodiment includes a server 100 and a PDA 200. The server 100 and the PDA 200 are connected to the Internet 108 and can communicate with a plurality of Web servers. In addition, the server 100, the PDA 200, and the television set 300 can communicate with the server 100 via the wireless LAN 110, respectively.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the server 100, the PDA 200, and the television set 300.

  As shown in the figure, the server 100 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 101, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 102, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 103, a network interface 104, a graphic controller 105, and a VRAM (Video RAM) 106. They are configured and connected by a bus 107.

  The CPU 101 is a main controller that controls the operation of the entire server 100, and executes various applications such as generation of a virtual space image on a platform provided by an OS (Operating System).

  The ROM 102 is a read-only nonvolatile memory that stores a program executed when the server 100 is powered on, data such as a code for hardware control, a program, and the like. The RAM 103 is a writable volatile memory used to load a program necessary for the graphic controller 105 to draw the Web page and other programs and to write work data of the program. is there.

  For example, the network interface 104 acquires a Web page from the Web server 109 via the Internet 108, receives a URL for acquiring the Web page from the PDA 200 or the TV set 300 via the wireless LAN 110, This is an interface for transmitting a Web page to be displayed on the PDA 200 and the television set 300.

  The graphic controller 105 is a controller for controlling internal drawing processing of a Web page acquired via the network interface 104 and processing for converting the Web page according to the display capability of the PDA 200 or the TV set 300. .

  The VRAM 106 is a buffer for writing a web page drawn or converted by the graphic controller 105. Data written in the VRAM 106 is converted into a display signal and transmitted to the PDA 200 and the television set 300.

  The PDA 200 includes a CPU 201, ROM 202, RAM 203, network interface 204, user interface controller 205, operation input unit 206, graphic controller 207, VRAM 208, and display unit 208, which are connected via a bus 210.

  The basic functions of the CPU 201, ROM 202, and RAM 203 are the same as those of the CPU 101, ROM 102, and RAM 103 of the server 100.

  The network interface 204 is an interface for receiving a Web page from the server 100 via the wireless LAN 110 and transmitting the URL of the Web page to the server 100.

  The operation input unit 206 includes, for example, a push button, a touch panel, a jog dial, and the like, and inputs a user operation. The user interface controller 205 controls the operation information input from the operation input unit 206 and notifies the CPU 201 and the like.

  The graphic controller 207 and the VRAM 209 have the same configuration as the graphic controller 105 and the VRAM 106 in the server 100.

  The display unit 208 includes, for example, an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube), a PDP (Plasma Display Panel), an OEL (Organic Electroluminescence), and the like, and a Web page drawn by the graphic controller 105 of the server 100 , Display other content. Note that the display unit 208 can display content, for example, when the PDA 200 is vertically or horizontally.

  The television set 300 has the same configuration as that of the PDA 200 described above, and in the figure, components having the same names as the configurations of the PDA 200 have the same functions. In addition, it has a basic structure as a television set for receiving television broadcasts by an antenna, a tuner, etc. (not shown). In the present embodiment, the television set 300 is, for example, an HDTV (Hi Definition TV), and can display a highly accurate image.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a software configuration of the server 100.

  As shown in the figure, the server 100 has each software of a window system 11, a rendering engine 12, a browser engine 13, and a Web page adaptation engine 14 on a lowermost OS (Operating System).

  The OS 10 is basic software that performs overall management of hardware resources and software resources constituting the server 100.

  The window system 11 is software for managing a GUI (graphical user interface) such as a window and an icon in the display unit 208, and includes a tool kit 114 and a graphic library 115.

  The tool kit 114 is a library of frequently used patterns in the window system, and defines modules called widgets such as scroll bars and buttons. The graphic library 115 is a collection of software for executing the above-described GUI drawing processing.

  The rendering engine 12 is software for rendering a Web page analyzed by the browser engine 13 or converted by the Web page adaptation engine into a state that can be visualized by calculation.

  The browser engine 13 downloads a Web page from the Web server 109 via the Internet 108, analyzes the layout of the Web page, and causes the rendering engine 12 to perform drawing processing. The browser engine 13 includes XML / XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language) / HTML parser 16, BML (Broadcast Markup Language) 17, ECMA (European Computer Manufacturer Association) script 18, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) 19, and DOM (Document Object). Model).

  The XML / XHTML / HTML parser 16 reads the XML document, the XHTML document, and the HTML document, performs syntax analysis, checks the validity of the document, determines the logical structure of the document, and generates data usable by the application. Software.

  The BML 17 is an XML-based markup language used for content description of BS digital broadcasting, and is used for laying out a content on a screen, associating a plurality of contents, and the like. As a result, BS digital broadcasting can be used as an external information source.

  The ECMA script 18 uses the <Script> tag in the HTML file to describe the browser engine 13 for interactive processing such as processing when a button is pressed or simple arithmetic processing. This is a simple program for realizing the above.

  The CSS 19 is a style sheet for determining the layout of a document described in a markup language such as XML, XHTML, or HTML.

  The DOM 20 is an object interface that allows a user to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and document style of a Web page using a program, the ECMA script 18 and the like.

  The web page adaptation engine 14 determines whether the web page drawn by the browser engine 13 and the rendering engine 12 causes a display problem in each display unit of the PDA 200 or the television set 300. When there is a display problem, the software is used for conversion into an optimal Web page according to the display capability of each display unit.

  Whether or not the display problem occurs is obtained by previously obtaining a device profile as display capability information from the PDA 200 and the television set 300, and the rendering engine 12 internally draws using the device profile. Judged from the results. Details of the processing of the Web page adaptation engine 14 will be described later.

  Next, a device profile used when the Web page adaptation engine 14 determines whether or not there is a display problem will be described. The server 100 acquires the display capability information from the PDA 200 and the television set 300 in advance, and performs an internal drawing process using the software and hardware based on the device profile.

  The device profile is acquired using, for example, a user agent. The user agent is an environment variable transmitted from the user's browser (PDA 200 or TV set 300 in the present embodiment) to the server so that the user can see from which device the Web page is viewed. Yes, it is described in the HTTP header when the browser on the user side accesses the Web server.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of user agent values acquired by the server 100 from the PDA 200.

  The user agent of the PDA 200 includes, for example, a value 22 indicating the type of browser installed in the PDA 200 and a portion 23 indicating additional elements such as the screen size of the browser. In the figure, the PDA 200 is equipped with NetFront (registered trademark) version 2.6 as a browser, the screen size is 640 × 480 pixels, the color is 24-bit color, and the product name is XXX. It shows that there is.

  When the web page adaptation engine 14 of the server 100 obtains the user agent as described above from the PDA 200 or the television set 300, the browser engine 13 and the rendering engine 12 receive the browser information and screen size information as device profiles. To instruct the web page to be rendered internally under the same display capability conditions as the browser.

  That is, when the Web page is displayed on the PDA 200, a browser similar to the browser included in the PDA 200 is used, and when the Web page is displayed on the TV set 300, the browser similar to the browser included in the TV set 300 is used. Drawing. Therefore, the server 100 needs to prepare several different browser engines so as to be compatible with browsers of various devices.

  Then, the server 100 renders the web page internally so that a horizontal scroll occurs when the rendered web page is displayed on each display unit of the PDA 200 or the television set 300. Is determined based on the device profile. Further, if it is determined that a problem occurs, the rendered web page is adjusted in accordance with the display area of the display unit of the PDA 200 or the television set 300 based on, for example, screen size information in the display capability information. Convert.

  In addition to the user agent, a method of acquiring a device profile using, for example, CC / PP is also conceivable. CC / PP is an XML-based specification recommended by the W3C for describing the display capability of a mobile terminal, and can describe more various information about each device than the above-mentioned user agent. In CC / PP, the display capability of a terminal and user setting items are converted into data using RDF, which is a framework related to a metadata expression method, and transmitted to a Web server. In the present embodiment, the data is transmitted to the server 100 instead of the Web server.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example in which the device profile is described by CC / PP.

  In the figure, a portion 24 surrounded by a dotted line is a portion describing display capability information, and indicates that the screen size is 800 × 600 and the color is 24-bit color. When the server 100 acquires the display capability information described by the CC / PP from the PDA 200 or the television set 300, the server 100 performs internal drawing based on the display capability information as in the case of the user agent, Whether or not this problem occurs is determined. If it is determined that the problem occurs, the Web page is converted. Details of the above internal drawing and display problem determination and conversion processing will be described later.

  Next, the operation of the display system configured as described above will be described. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a rough operation flow until the Web page is displayed on the display unit of the PDA 200 in the present embodiment. Although not shown, the television set 300 performs the same operation as that of the PDA 200.

  As shown in the figure, first, the PDA 200 confirms whether or not a URL has been input to the browser of the PDA 200 by operating the operation input unit 206 or 306 of the user (step 401). If not entered, the confirmation is repeated until it is entered (NO in step 401). If entered (YES at step 401), a connection request is transmitted to the server 100 via the network interface 204 (step 402). The server 100 that has received the connection request connects to the PDA 200 via the network interface 104 and then notifies the PDA 200 that the connection has been made (step 402).

  Subsequently, the PDA 200 transmits the URL input in step 401 to the server 100 (step 403). The server 100 receives the URL and notifies the PDA 200 that it connects to the URL destination (step 404).

  The PDA 200 that has received the connection notification transmits a device profile indicating its own display capability to the server 100 by the user agent or CC / PP (step 405). When receiving the device profile, the server 100 notifies the PDA 200 of the reception (step 406). The received device profile is stored in the RAM 103, for example. The PDA 200 may transmit the URL and the device profile to the server 100 at the same time.

  Subsequently, the Web page adaptation engine 14 of the server 100 selects the browser engine 13 similar to the PDA 200 according to the received device profile, and then displays a virtual display frame having the same size as the display unit 208 of the PDA 200 on the VRAM 106. Is set (step 407). Then, the web page is downloaded by connecting to the URL destination received in step 404 (step 408).

  Next, the graphic controller 207 of the server 100 draws the downloaded web page on the VRAM 106 in accordance with an instruction from the web page adaptation engine 14 using software such as the browser engine 13 and the rendering engine 12 (step 409). . Then, the web page adaptation engine 14 compares the size of the rendered web page with the set virtual frame and determines whether a display problem occurs when the web page is rendered on the display unit 208 of the PDA 200. Is determined (step 410). That is, for example, it is determined whether or not a problem that is inconvenient for the user, such as horizontal scrolling occurring when browsing the Web page on the display unit 208 of the PDA 200 due to the Web page protruding from the display frame. To do.

  If it is determined that there is a display problem (YES in step 410), the Web page is converted so as to be optimally displayed in accordance with the display frame, that is, the display unit 208 of the PDA 200 (step 411). ). In this case, if the web page adaptation engine 14 finds a problem such as horizontal scrolling by the rendering process of the rendering engine 12, the web page adaptation engine 14 notifies the OS 10 as an event, and the OS that has received the notification The browser engine 13 and the rendering engine 12 are instructed to convert. Specific modes and operations of the conversion process will be described later.

  Then, the converted web page is transmitted to the PDA 200 (step 412), and the PDA 200 receives the web page and displays it on the display unit 208 (step 414). If it is determined in step 410 that there is no display problem, the server 100 transmits the downloaded original web page to the PDA 200 (step 413), and the web page is displayed on the display unit 208 of the PDA 200. (Step 414).

  With the above operation, the server 100 internally renders the Web page using a browser having the same display capability as the PDA 200 by the processing of the Web page adaptation engine 14 and the like, and the Web page is displayed on the PDA 200. When displaying on the display unit 208, it is determined whether or not there is a display problem. If it is determined that a problem occurs, the Web page is converted and displayed so as to be optimal for the display unit 208. Therefore, for example, the display suitable for the display environment and easy to see for the user can be more surely performed as compared with the case where the conversion is performed based on the unique rule assignment without the above determination.

  Next, a specific operation of the conversion process will be described. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the relationship between the Web page downloaded by the server 100 and the display area of the display unit of the PDA 200 and the television set 300.

  As shown in the figure, the Web page 26 downloaded by the server 100 and internally rendered on the VRAM 106 includes a display area 27a (when placed horizontally) and a display area 27b (when placed vertically) on the display unit of the PDA 200. Case) and the display area 28 of the television set 300, and protrudes from each area. Therefore, when the Web page is displayed on each display unit of the PDA 200 or the television set 300, horizontal scrolling occurs. The web page 26 is assumed to be composed of three frames 26a, 26b and 26c.

  Hereinafter, a conversion process for displaying the Web page 26 on each of the PDA 200 and the television set 300 will be described.

  First, the conversion process for the PDA 200 will be described. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the conversion process.

  As shown in the figure, the Web page adaptation engine 14 compares the display areas 27a and 27b of the PDA 200 with the area of the drawn Web page and displays the Web page on the display unit 208 of the PDA 200. When it is found that horizontal scrolling occurs, the Web page is first divided into frames 26a, 26b, and 26c.

  Then, a new HTML file 29 provided with links to the divided frames is created, and the HTML file 29 is transmitted to the PDA 200. As a result, the Web page 26 is converted into a new Web page 29 and three frame pages 30, 31, and 32, which are link destinations. When the user designates a link to a frame provided in the HTML file 29, the Web page adaptation engine 14 transmits a frame page corresponding to the link to the PDA 200. The HTML file 29 and each frame page are stored in the VRAM 106, for example.

  Specifically, the Web page adaptation engine 14 receives a notification that the link is designated from the PDA 200 via the network interface 204, and in response to the notification, each of the above-described corresponding to the designated links. The frame page is extracted, and the frame page is transmitted to the PDA 200 via the network interface 204. The PDA 200 displays the frame page on the display unit 208.

  If horizontal scrolling or the like still occurs even after being divided into frames, for example, a page layout or font is selected in accordance with the display environment such as the size or resolution of each display unit of the PDA 200 acquired from the device profile. The display may be converted into an optimal display by changing the setting of the above.

  As a result of the above operations, when three frames are displayed at once, horizontal scrolling occurs or each frame becomes extremely small, making it difficult to perform a scrolling operation. By converting the page 26 into the three frame pages and the link source page, the above-described problems can be eliminated or reduced as much as possible, and the page can be displayed as an optimal web page on the display unit 208 of the PDA 200.

  Note that what is displayed as a link as described above is not limited to a frame. For example, when a table including a plurality of elements is included in the Web page, the Web page is A page provided with a link to each table may be created by dividing into a plurality of elements.

  Next, the conversion process for the television set 300 will be described. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating the conversion process.

  As shown in the figure, in a device having a relatively large display area such as the television set 300, only the frame 26c having the largest area among the above-mentioned frames is preferentially displayed on the display unit 308. May be.

  Specifically, the web page adaptation engine 14 compares the display area 28 of the television set 300 with the area of the rendered web page 26 and displays the web page 26 on the display unit 308 of the television set 300. When it is found that horizontal scrolling occurs, the browser engine 13 identifies the area of each frame by analyzing, for example, a frame tag in the HTML of the Web page 26. Then, the web page adaptation engine 14 extracts the frame 26c having the largest area among the frames from the web page 26, and displays only the frame 26c on the display unit 308 of the television set 300. The reason why only the frame having the largest area is displayed is that there is a high possibility that the frame contains the most important information in the Web page.

  In addition, when the Web page is a page described in XML, for example, RDF or the like for describing metadata on the basis of XML can be used. In RDF, various information about data can be added to the data. For example, the information added by the RDF in the XML describing the Web page or the file added separately from the Web page. If the priority order of each frame becomes clear from the information described in RDF, etc., only frames with a higher priority order may be displayed according to the priority order. Each frame may be displayed in order of priority.

  Through the above operation, by displaying frames of high importance in the web page 26 according to the area and priority order of each frame, it is possible to efficiently display information desired by the user and It is possible to avoid a frame in which information important to the user is difficult to view.

  In the case of the television set 300 as well, as in the case of the PDA 200, not only the frame but also each element of the table may be displayed according to the area and the priority order, for example.

  Further, when it becomes clear that the display problem occurs, the server 100 completely reconfigures the Web page so that the display is displayed on each display unit of the PDA 200 or the TV set 300. It may be. The operation in this case will be described below.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a rough operation flow when the server 100 reconstructs a Web page. Each step in the figure corresponds to the step 411 in FIG. 6 shown in more detail. In FIG. 10, the server 100 receives the URL and device profile from the PDA 200 and downloads the Web page. The processing after the internal rendering (step 401 to step 410) will be described.

  In this case, the source of the internally rendered Web page is stored in, for example, the RAM 103 in the form of a DOM tree. In the DOM tree, elements such as tags, characters, and images of the entire page are made into a tree hierarchy so that a page can be searched and edited by an application.

  As shown in the figure, the web page adaptation engine 14 of the server 100 cooperates with the browser engine 13 to analyze the HTML document describing the internally rendered web page, and in the web page A drawing position of a display element such as a character string or an image is obtained, and the position information is combined with tag information constituting each display element and stored as tag / position information in the RAM 103 (step 501). Since the drawing position of the display element varies depending on the size of the character font, the number of characters, and the image size, the Web adaptation engine 14 obtains the drawing position in consideration of the size of the character font and the number of characters in the case of characters. In the case of an image, the drawing position is obtained in consideration of the image size and the like.

  Subsequently, the web page adaptation engine 14 ties together tags (display elements) that are visually connected (close to each other) based on the saved tag / position information, and each tag (display element) in the web page. ) Are divided into several clusters (clusters) (step 502), and the information of the sorted clusters is stored in the RAM 103 as a cluster list.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a specific state of the clustering process.

  Reference numeral 50 in the figure indicates the result of clustering the display elements 41 a to 41 l on the original Web page 40. Reference numerals 51a to 51l denote individual clusters. 51b is a cluster of headlines (headings) 41b on the web page, 51c is a cluster of headline text 41c, 51f, 51h, and 51j are subheadings 41f, 41h, and 41j, 51g, 51i, and 51k are subheadings, respectively. This is a cluster of the parts of the article lists 41g, 41i, 41k to which it belongs.

  Since the headline 41b and the subheadings 41f, 41h, 41j have no visual connection with other display elements, they are generated as individual clusters 51b, 51f, 51h, 51j. The article lists 41g, 41i, and 41k are generated as one cluster 51g, 51i, and 51k for each set belonging to one subheading. In addition to this, some display information is obtained as clusters 51a, 51d, and 51l.

As a clustering method, for example, a grid pace method widely known in the field of 2D data mining can be used.
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The web page title 42 is always displayed regardless of whether or not the web page is reconstructed. Therefore, the web page title 42 is excluded from the clustering process and is set to be displayed, for example, on the top of the web page after the reconstruction. deep. The title of the Web page can be determined from the title tag in the HTML document.

  Next, the Web page adaptation engine 14 extracts layout features for each of the generated clusters 51a to 51l and assigns layout meanings. That is, as shown in FIG. 12, the individual clusters 51a to 51l are divided into “left side” (L), “right side” (R), “headline (including subheadings)” (H), “main body (including article links). ) ”(B) and“ unused ”(U), which are classified into five types (step 503 in FIG. 10). The classified data is stored in the RAM 103, for example. Details of the cluster classification will be described later.

  Subsequently, the web page adaptation engine 14 reconstructs the web page based on the classification result of each cluster (step 504), and stores the information of the reconstructed page in the RAM 103. Then, the reconstructed Web page is transmitted to the PDA 200 or the television set 300 (Step 412 in FIG. 6) and displayed on each display unit (Step 414 in FIG. 6).

  Next, details of the cluster classification method will be described.

  FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the cluster classification processing procedure, FIG. 14 is a processing procedure for determining the centroid line in the cluster classification processing procedure of FIG. 13, FIG. 15 is a specific example of centroid line determination, and FIG. FIG. 17 shows a specific example of processing for determining the meaning of the cluster layout in FIG. 16 in the processing procedure for determining the cluster layout meaning from “left side”, “right side”, and “unused”. FIG. 18 is a processing procedure for determining the meaning of the cluster layout from among “headline (including subheadings)” and “main body (including article links)” in the cluster classification processing procedure of FIG.

  First, the web page adaptation engine 14 calls the cluster list stored in the RAM 103 onto the VRAM 106 and determines the center of gravity line of the web page that is one of the criteria for detecting the layout features of each cluster ( Step 601). The barycentric line is a line along the Y axis where the most display elements are arranged on the Web page.

  A specific method for determining the barycentric line will be described with reference to the processing procedure of FIG. 14 and the specific example of FIG.

  As shown in both figures, first, grid lines 52 that equally divide the entire clustered Web page into, for example, 4 × 5 20 areas are set (step 701). For each of 6 regions of 2 × 3, for example, in the center of the page, for each line (X = N) in the Y-axis direction at a constant interval (Δd) from either one of the left and right (in the X-axis direction) The number (P) of display elements that exist (intersect the line) is counted (step 702), and the line in the Y-axis direction in which the maximum count value Pmax is obtained is counted as the barycentric line 53. Determine (steps 703 to 706).

  After the center-of-gravity line 53 is determined in this way, the Web adaptation engine 14 performs processing for determining the meaning of the layout of each cluster from “leftward”, “rightward”, and “unused” (FIG. 13). Step 602). A specific method of this processing will be described using the processing procedure of FIG. 16 and the specific example of FIG.

  As shown in both figures, first, clusters 15a, 51b, 51c, 51f, which intersect with the barycentric line 53 in the upper 3 × 5 15 regions of the 4 × 5 20 region divided by the grid lines 52, for example. Among the lines 51g, 51h, 51i, 51j, and 51k, the line 54 in the Y-axis direction that takes the X coordinate value of the left end of the cluster 51b that protrudes to the left (the smallest X coordinate) is determined as the left boundary line. The line 55 in the Y-axis direction that takes the X coordinate value of the right end of the cluster 51c that protrudes to the right (the maximum X coordinate) is determined as the right boundary line (step 801 in FIG. 16). As a result, the entire page is divided into three regions with the left and right boundary lines 54 and 55 as a boundary.

  Thereafter, the Web page adaptation engine 14 extracts information on an arbitrary cluster from the cluster list (step 802). This cluster information includes the tag / position information related to display elements constituting the cluster. Based on the cluster information, the Web page adaptation engine 14 classifies the meaning of the cluster layout into three, “leftward”, “rightward”, and “unused”. Hereinafter, the classification procedure will be described.

  First, if the cluster extends over both the left boundary line 54 and the right boundary line 55 (YES in step 803), the cluster is classified as an “unused” cluster (step 807) and excluded from the cluster list. (Step 808).

  If the cluster is completely included in the area on the left side of the left boundary line 54 (YES in step 804), the cluster is classified as a “leftward” cluster (step 809), and the cluster on the right side of the right boundary line 55 If it is completely included in the area (YES in ST804), the cluster is classified as a “rightward” cluster (step 809) and excluded from the cluster list (step 810).

  Further, although the cluster is not completely included in the area on the left side of the left boundary line 54 or the area on the right side of the right boundary line 55 (NO in step 804), one of the left boundary line 54 and the right boundary line 55 (YES in step 805), the center of gravity line of the cluster is calculated (step 811). Is on the right side of the right boundary line 55, it is classified as a “rightward” cluster (step 812) and excluded from the cluster list (step 813).

  The above processing is repeated for all the clusters registered in the cluster list (step 806).

  Clusters that are not classified as “left side”, “right side”, or “unused” in the above processing are either “headlines (including subheadings)” or “text (including links to articles)”. . A procedure for classifying clusters belonging to the “headline” and “text” will be described with reference to FIG.

  First, the Web adaptation engine 14 extracts cluster information from the cluster list (step 901), and internally draws and develops it on the VRAM 106 in cooperation with the browser engine 13 and the rendering engine 12, and the left shown in FIG. A region between the boundary line 54 and the right boundary line 55 is scanned (step 902). Subsequently, among clusters existing in the scanned area, clusters having common display attributes such as font size, color, typeface, and background color (hereinafter referred to as “same cluster”) are determined as one group (step 903).

  Next, the Web adaptation engine 14 selects two groups having a large number of clusters from the determined groups (step 904), and for each group, calculates an average value of information amount such as the number of characters in the cluster belonging to the group. Calculate (step 905). Then, according to the average value of the information amount, a group having a high average information amount (a large number of characters) is determined as “text (including article links)”, and the average value of the information amount is low (a small number of characters) ) The group is determined as “headline (including subheadings)” (step 906).

  Then, the group determined as “text” is further classified into “text” and “article link” according to the font size, color, etc., and the group determined as “headline” is similarly classified as “headline”. ”And“ subheading ”, and the data is stored in the RAM 103.

  Data of each cluster classified by the above operation is stored in the RAM 103, for example.

  Next, details of the Web page reconstruction process will be described based on the process described above. FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating an example of the reconstructed Web page.

  As shown in the figure, the Web page adaptation engine 14 cooperates with the browser engine 13 and the rendering engine 12 to use, for example, a headline 60 and a subheading 61 using the headline, the text, etc. determined by the above processing. Pages such as a top page 56 configured, an article link collection page 57 collecting links 62 to articles belonging to the subheading 61, an article page 58 composed of articles belonging to the subheading 61 and the text of the headline 60, a body page 59 Create Each created page is stored in the VRAM 106, for example.

  A hyperlink to the body page 59 is set in the headline 60 of the top page 56, and a link to the article link collection page 57 is set in the subheading 61. In addition, hyperlinks to corresponding article pages 58 are set in the headings of the articles on the article link collection page 57. Of these reconstructed pages, the top page 56 is first transmitted to the PDA 200 or the television set 300 and displayed on each display unit.

  When the top page 56 is displayed on each display unit of the PDA 200 or the television set 300, for example, when the user selects the headline 60 by operating the operation input unit 206 or 306 such as a jog dial, the headline 60 is displayed on the headline 60. The display is switched to the display of the body page 59 by the set hyperlink. Further, when an arbitrary subheading 61 is selected by the user on the top page 56, the article link collection page 57 belonging to the subheading 61 is displayed by the hyperlink set to the selected subheading 61, and further. When a link 62 to an arbitrary article is selected by the user on the article link collection page 57, an article page 58 that is a link destination is displayed.

  When displaying each link, the Web page adaptation engine 14 indicates that the designation has been made from the PDA 200 or the television set 300 when the user designates the link, as in the case described with reference to FIG. The notification may be received, a page corresponding to the link may be extracted and transmitted to the PDA 200 or the television set 300.

  If another article page is to be displayed, for example, the return button of the web browser may be used to return to the top page 56 or the article link collection page 57 and repeat the same operation.

  Note that the layout of these pages is optimally set according to the display environment such as the size or resolution of each display unit of the PDA 200 and the television set 300 acquired from the device profile. In FIG. 19, each of the above pages is displayed with the PDA 200 lying sideways, for example.

  FIG. 20 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of Web page reconstruction. In the figure, description will be given taking as an example the creation of the top page 56 among the above pages.

  First, the web page adaptation engine 14 loads cluster classification data from the RAM 103 (step 1001). Subsequently, in cooperation with the browser engine 13, tags are read in descending order from the DOM tree of the original Web page internally drawn in the VRAM 106, and are classified as headlines and subheadings based on the cluster classification data. The retrieved tag is searched (step 1002). Then, the searched tag is added to the DOM tree of the reconstructed page (step 1003). If there is still a tag to be searched in the original DOM tree (YES in step 1004), the process returns to step 1002, reads the tag, and adds the searched tag to the DOM tree of the reconstructed page in the same manner as described above. .

  When the headline tag and the subheading tag are laid out on the reconstructed page, the headline is described at the top and each subheading is described below.

  In this way, the headline and subheading tags constituting the top page 56 are respectively searched from the original DOM tree, added to the DOM tree of the reconstructed page, and the reconstructed page is completed.

  Similarly, the article link collection page 57, the article page 58, and the body page 59 are searched for article links and body / articles from the original DOM tree based on the cluster classification data. Can be created by adding Then, by setting a necessary link for each reconstructed page created as described above, the movement of the page as shown in FIG. 19 can be realized.

  According to the above operation, when a Web page designed for a PC display environment is first internally rendered, a display problem in the PDA 200 and the TV set 300 is determined, and it is determined that a problem occurs. By reconstructing the Web page, it is possible to more reliably perform display suitable for the display environment of the PDA 200 and the television set 300.

  Specifically, since each reconstructed web page is provided with a certain regularity as a whole, the user can efficiently browse the web. Further, it is possible to eliminate trial and error in operation for reaching the target Web page, and it is possible to browse the Web concentrated on the content itself.

  There are various types of Web page description languages such as HTML (HyperText Markup Language), XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language), and XML + CSS (cading Style Sheets). Reconstruction of the Web page created in (1) can be realized with the same logic. On the other hand, there is a method of reconstructing a Web page by semantic connection analysis of tags, but this method requires an analysis program corresponding to each type of page description language, and a great deal of analysis It takes time. The method described above can greatly reduce the cost required for page reconstruction as compared with a method for reconstructing a Web page by such a semantic connection analysis of tags.

  Further, since the reconstructed page is created using the tag of the original web page, the web page can be reconstructed without depending on the language type (Japanese, English, etc.) and the locale.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the aspect ratio of the display area is smaller than that of a portable terminal having a display area smaller than that of a PC such as a PDA 200 or that of a PC such as a television set (HDTV) 300. When displaying a web page on a different device, before actually displaying the web page, try to draw internally in advance to determine whether the above problem occurs, and if it is determined that the problem will occur Is displayed after appropriate conversion, regardless of the description language of the Web page and the nature of the browser, the Web page is converted to ad hoc, ensuring a user-friendly display suitable for the display environment. Can be done.

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Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the present embodiment, the same components as those described in the first embodiment will be denoted by the same reference numerals in the drawings, and description thereof will be simplified or omitted, and different points will be mainly described.

  FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a rough configuration of a system in the present embodiment. As shown in the figure, in the present embodiment, the PDA 200 and the television set 300 are directly connected to each Web server 109 via the Internet 108, not via the server 100 in the first embodiment described above.

  Although not shown, each of the PDA 200 and the television set 300 has the same configuration as that in the first embodiment described above. In addition, the PDA 200 and the television set 300 have the same Web page adaptation engine 14 as the server 100 and other necessary software. As with the server 100, the Web page can be converted and displayed by itself.

  Next, in this embodiment, an operation until the PDA 200 and the television set 300 display a Web page will be described. FIG. 22 is a flowchart showing the flow of the operation.

  As shown in the figure, the Web page adaptation engine of the PDA 200 or the television set 300 first cooperates with the browser engine to confirm whether a URL has been input (step 1101), in the same manner as the server 100 described above. If so, it connects to the Web server 109 of the URL destination via the network interface and downloads the Web page from there (step 1102).

  Subsequently, the downloaded web page is internally rendered in the VRAM in cooperation with the browser engine 13, the rendering engine 12, and the graphic controller (step 1103), and is displayed when displayed on the display unit. It is confirmed whether or not display problems such as wrapping occur (step 1104).

  If it is determined that there is a display problem (YES in step 1104), the rendered web page is divided into frames and links are set, or tags are analyzed, as in the first embodiment described above. Then, the web page is reconstructed, and the web page is converted in accordance with the display unit (step 1105). At this time, instead of converting the Web page at once, the conversion may be repeated a plurality of times, for example, to the extent that display problems do not occur. As a result, even when the processing capability of drawing a Web page or the like is lower than that of the server 100, a highly accurate conversion process can be performed.

  Then, the converted web page is displayed in accordance with, for example, the frame size and priority order, or a page reconstructed by setting a link such as a headline or a subheading is displayed (step 1106). If there is no display problem, the downloaded original Web page is displayed.

  With the above operation, according to the present embodiment, the Web page is once rendered internally to determine whether or not a display problem occurs. When it is determined that a problem occurs, an appropriate conversion process is performed. Since the Web page can be displayed after being performed, the display suitable for the display environment of each device and easy to browse for the user can be surely performed without using the server 100.

  The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and various modifications can be made.

  For example, in the first embodiment described above, the server 100 performs all of the internal rendering processing of web pages, determination of display problems, conversion processing, and the like. The determination of the problem may be made by the PDA 200 and the television set 300, and only the conversion process may be requested from the server 100.

  In the above-described two embodiments, the PDA and the television set are described as the devices for displaying the Web page. However, the present invention is not limited to these devices, and can be applied to, for example, a mobile phone. In this case, the server 100 may be requested to request all or a part of the internal drawing, display problem determination, and conversion process, or may perform the process by itself without using the server 100.

  In addition, for example, the present invention can be applied to any device such as a home appliance with a built-in browser, and the server 100 determines a display problem of any device, and is appropriate for each display unit. The mode may be such that the Web page is delivered by performing the conversion process, or those devices are provided with the necessary software and hardware such as the Web page adaptation engine 14 described above, and the conversion process is performed in a stand-alone manner. You may be the aspect which performs.

It is the figure which showed the rough structure of the display system which concerns on 1st Embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of a server 100, a PDA 200, and a television set 300. It is the figure which showed the structure of the software which the server 100 has. It is the figure which showed the example of the value of the user agent which the server 100 acquires from the said PDA200. It is the figure which showed the example which described the apparatus profile by CC / PP. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a rough operation flow until a Web page is displayed on the display unit of PDA 200; FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a Web page downloaded by a server 100 and display areas of display units of the PDA 200 and the television set 300. 6 is a diagram showing a state of conversion processing for displaying the Web page 26 on the PDA 200. FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a state of conversion processing for displaying the Web page 26 on the television set 300. It is the flowchart which showed the flow of the rough operation | movement when the server 100 reconstructs a web page. It is the figure which showed the specific mode of the clustering process. It is the figure which showed a mode that each cluster was classified into five groups. It is a flowchart which shows the processing procedure of cluster classification. It is the flowchart which showed the process sequence for determining a gravity center line in the process sequence of the cluster classification | category of FIG. It is the figure which showed the specific example of the process which determines a gravity center line. 14 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure for determining the meaning of the cluster layout from “leftward”, “rightward”, and “unused” in the cluster classification processing procedure of FIG. 13. It is the figure which showed the specific example of the process which determines the meaning on the layout of the cluster of FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure for determining the meaning of the cluster layout from among “headline (including subheadings)” and “main body (including article links)” in the cluster classification processing procedure of FIG. 13. It is the figure which showed the example of the reconstructed Web page. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of the reconstruction of a web page. It is the figure which showed the rough structure of the system in 2nd Embodiment of this invention. In the second embodiment of the present invention, it is a flowchart showing the flow of operations until the PDA 200 and the television set 300 display a Web page.

Explanation of symbols

100 ... Server 200 ... PDA
300 ... TV set 12 ... Rendering engine 13 ... Browser engine 14 ... Web page adaptation engine 106, 209, 309 ... VRAM
105, 207, 307 ... Graphic controller 109 ... Web server 208, 308 ... Display unit

Claims (12)

Acquisition means for acquiring a web page;
Drawing means for internally drawing the acquired web page;
Determining means for determining whether or not a display failure occurs when the rendered web page is displayed on a display unit;
Conversion means for converting the rendered web page so as to eliminate the problem when it is determined that the problem occurs;
An electronic device comprising: display means for displaying the converted web page on the display unit. The electronic device apparatus according to claim 1,
The determination means includes means for comparing the area of the rendered web page area with the area of the display area of the display unit,
The converting means converts the Web page in accordance with the area of the display area of the display unit when the determining means determines that the area of the Web page area is larger. Equipment device. The electronic device apparatus according to claim 2,
The acquired web page is composed of a plurality of frames,
The converting means has a dividing means for dividing the rendered web page for each frame;
The electronic device apparatus, wherein the display means displays a frame having the largest area among the divided frames. The electronic device apparatus according to claim 3,
Means for acquiring importance information indicating the importance of the frames constituting the acquired Web page;
The electronic device apparatus, wherein the display unit displays a frame with high importance in preference to other frames based on the acquired importance. The electronic device apparatus according to claim 2,
The acquired web page is composed of a plurality of frames,
The converting means includes
Dividing means for dividing the rendered web page into the frames;
First creating means for creating a link page provided with a link to each frame,
The electronic device apparatus, wherein the display means displays at least the created link page. The electronic device apparatus according to claim 2,
The acquired web page includes at least a headline and a text related to the headline,
The converting means includes
Extraction means for extracting the body and the headline from the acquired web page;
A second creating means for creating a body page including the extracted body;
A third creation means for creating a headline page including the extracted headline and provided with a link to the body page;
The electronic device apparatus, wherein the display means displays at least the created headline page. Receiving means for receiving URL information for acquiring a Web page from an electronic device connected via a network;
Obtaining means for obtaining the web page based on the received URL information;
Drawing means for internally drawing the acquired web page using a browser having a display capability similar to that of the electronic apparatus device;
A determination means for determining whether or not a display failure occurs when the rendered web page is displayed on the display unit of the electronic apparatus device;
Conversion means for converting the rendered web page so as to eliminate the problem when it is determined that the problem occurs;
A server device, comprising: a transmission unit configured to transmit the converted web page to the electronic device device so as to be displayed on a display unit of the electronic device device. The server device according to claim 7,
Multiple browsers with different display capabilities,
The electronic device further comprises means for receiving browser display capability information of the electronic device,
The server is characterized in that the drawing means draws using a browser corresponding to the display capability based on the received display capability information. Obtaining a web page;
Internally rendering the acquired web page;
Determining whether a display failure occurs when the rendered web page is displayed on a display unit;
A step for converting the rendered web page so as to eliminate the problem when it is determined that the problem occurs;
Displaying the converted web page on the display unit. A web page processing method comprising: Receiving URL information for acquiring a web page from an electronic device connected via a network;
Obtaining the web page based on the received URL information;
Rendering the acquired web page internally using a browser having a display capability similar to that of the electronic device;
Determining whether a display problem occurs when the rendered web page is displayed on the display unit of the electronic device;
When it is determined that the problem occurs, the step of converting the rendered web page so as to eliminate the problem;
Transmitting the converted web page to the electronic device device for display on the display unit of the electronic device device. Electronic equipment,
Obtaining a web page;
Internally rendering the acquired web page;
Determining whether a display failure occurs when the rendered web page is displayed on a display unit;
A step for converting the rendered web page so as to eliminate the problem when it is determined that the problem occurs;
A program that functions as a step of displaying the converted Web page on the display unit. Server device
Receiving URL information for acquiring a web page from an electronic device connected via a network;
Obtaining the web page based on the received URL information;
Rendering the acquired web page internally using a browser having a display capability similar to that of the electronic device;
Determining whether a display problem occurs when the rendered web page is displayed on the display unit of the electronic device;
When it is determined that the problem occurs, the step of converting the rendered web page so as to eliminate the problem;
A program that functions as a step of transmitting the converted Web page to the electronic device apparatus so that the display unit of the electronic apparatus apparatus displays the converted Web page.

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