JP2007304769A - Material pasting device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user to know the concrete content of materials assigned to buttons before selecting the buttons, without reducing a document display area and hindering the user's operation. <P>SOLUTION: When any button in an annotation bar 11 having a plurality of buttons corresponding to annotations (materials) is pointed with a cursor 13, an annotation processing part 6 identifies the annotation data corresponding to the button by reference to an annotation storage part 2, and a display processing part 7 generates an image 14 representing the content of the annotation according to the identified annotation data and displays it about the cursor 13. The user can view the image 14 to know the concrete content of the annotation, which is an actual pasting, and can select the button corresponding to a desired annotation to attach the annotation. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for displaying a button corresponding to a material to be pasted on a document on a screen and pasting a corresponding material to a document in response to selection of the button, and in particular, to the button prior to button selection. The present invention relates to a technology that makes it possible to recognize the specific content of a corresponding material.

Normally, a document processing apparatus that processes a document using a computer is provided with a toolbar having a plurality of buttons.
The toolbar includes, for example, a toolbar (hereinafter referred to as a “process selection bar”) that assigns a process related to a document to each button and executes the process assigned to the button when the user clicks (selects) the button. .

  In addition, for example, a material that can be pasted on a document (for example, data such as characters, figures, graphs, tables, and photographs, data obtained by combining these, or document data itself) is assigned to each button, and the user clicks the button. There is a tool bar (hereinafter referred to as “material selection bar”) for pasting the material assigned to the button to the document by selecting. That is, for example, by assigning a graphic created in advance to a button as a material, it becomes possible to use the graphic by pasting it on a document to be created later, and the efficiency of document creation can be improved. As one form of the material selection bar, there is a material selection bar that automatically assigns the material stored on the clipboard by the material copy operation by the user.

Here, an icon (for example, an image obtained by abstracting a printer in the case of printing processing) is displayed on the button of the processing selection bar, and the user displays the icon on each button. You can see the process assigned to each button by looking at the icon.
On the other hand, an icon schematically showing the type of material (for example, a character image “A” in the case of character data material) is displayed on the button of the material selection bar, and the user displays the icon displayed on each button. You can see the type of material assigned to each button.

  Here, as an invention related to the material selection bar, it is possible to recognize not only the type of material but also the material actually added by displaying a reduced image of the material such as a document or a graphic associated with the button on the button. An invention has been proposed (see Patent Document 1).

In addition, as an invention related to the toolbar, the button is displayed in an enlarged manner when the cursor is placed on the button (see Patent Document 2), and a stereoscopic image in which the toolbar is arranged on each surface can be rotated. Or display a circular tool bar in a rotatable manner so that necessary tool buttons can be selected easily and quickly and the display area occupied on the screen is reduced (refer to Patent Documents 3 and 4), auxiliary information display An invention that enables auxiliary information to be displayed without changing the size of the display section for media editing by changing the size of the section (toolbar), displaying it transparently, or moving it (see Patent Document 5), etc. Proposed.
JP 2001-051771 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-027087 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-119965 JP-A-11-126146 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 06-324834

  Generally, by placing the cursor on each button on the toolbar, a character string (tooltip) explaining the processing and material corresponding to the button is displayed, so depending on the content of the tooltip, not only the type of material, Although it becomes possible to grasp the outline of the material to some extent, there is a problem that the content of the material actually attached cannot be grasped specifically.

  According to the invention of Patent Document 1, as shown in FIG. 8, in addition to displaying the normal material selection bar 21 in which buttons indicating the types of materials are displayed, large buttons in which reduced images of the materials are disposed are disposed. By displaying the size material selection bar 22, it is possible to grasp the specific contents of the material to be pasted. However, in recent years, with the spread of information processing apparatuses having a small display screen such as a notebook PC, there is a demand for a document display area as large as possible in order to perform document processing smoothly even if the display screen is small. Although increasing, if the material selection bar 22 having a large size is displayed, the display area of the document is narrowed. Therefore, it is impossible to comprehend the specific contents of the material and securing a sufficient display area.

  In addition, there is a method of starting the tool that manages the material selection bar and grasping the specific contents of the material assigned to each button, but it is necessary to compare the material selection bar and the management tool, This may cause the user's work to stop.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described conventional circumstances, and the material assigned to the button prior to the user selecting the button without narrowing the display area of the document or disturbing the user's work. The purpose is to be able to grasp the specific contents of.

  The present invention displays a button corresponding to a material to be pasted on a document on a screen, and causes a computer to execute a material pasting device and a material pasting device for pasting a corresponding material on a document in response to selection of the button. It implement | achieves as a method implemented by the program comprised by (1), and a raw material sticking apparatus.

  The material pasting device of the present invention includes a material holding unit, a specifying unit, and a display unit, the material holding unit holds the material in association with the button, and the specifying unit is displayed on the screen. In response to the button being pointed by the cursor by the user, the material corresponding to the button is identified with reference to the material holding means, and the display means displays an image on which the content of the identified material is embodied on the screen. It is characterized by displaying.

  That is, in the material pasting operation, a series of operations are performed in which the cursor is moved over the button, the button pointed to by the cursor is clicked, and the material corresponding to the button is pasted into the document. According to the above, an image embodying the content of the corresponding material is displayed by moving the cursor onto the button, which is the stage before clicking the button.

  Therefore, the user can grasp the specific contents of the material that is actually pasted by looking at the displayed image, and when the cursor is not positioned on the button, the image is not displayed and the document is not displayed. The display area can be secured sufficiently, and the image is displayed in accordance with the conventional operation of moving the cursor on the button to paste the material, so that the user's work is not disturbed and the user feels uncomfortable. You can edit the document without any problem.

The material image may be generated every time the button is pointed by the cursor, or an image generated in advance may be stored in association with the material.
The material image may be an image that directly represents the material that is actually pasted, or may be an image whose size has been changed (reduced or enlarged) at a predetermined scale, and it is desirable that the user can arbitrarily set it. The scale may be defined for the entire material selection bar, or for each button (for each material).

  The display means desirably displays the material image in the vicinity of the cursor. That is, since the user's line of sight is usually poured at the cursor position, the specific content of the material can be reliably presented to the user by displaying the material image in the vicinity of the cursor. Note that a position for displaying an image of a material may be defined in advance and displayed at that position.

  The display means may display the material image transparently, and even if the material image is enlarged to a certain extent and the portion hidden by the image is enlarged, the portion is transmitted and the user can grasp the contents. .

  The display means may display an explanation (tooltip) corresponding to the material together with the image of the material, and the material holding means holds explanation information explaining the material in association with the material. Can be realized.

  According to the present invention, since the image embodying the content of the corresponding material is displayed by moving the cursor on the button, which is the stage before clicking the button, the user can actually paste the image by viewing the displayed image. The specific contents of the material to be attached can be grasped, and when the cursor is not positioned on the button, the image is not displayed, so that a sufficient display area of the document can be secured and the material is pasted. Therefore, since the image is displayed in accordance with the conventional operation of moving the cursor on the button, the user's work is not hindered.

The present invention will be specifically described based on an example.
As shown in FIG. 1, the document processing apparatus according to this example includes a document storage unit 1 that holds document data, an annotation storage unit 2 that holds annotation data and icon data, a display, and the like. A display unit 3 that displays a document, an input unit 4 that includes a keyboard and a mouse and receives an operation input from a user, a document processing unit 5 that processes document data, an annotation processing unit 6 that processes annotation data, and a display unit 3 includes a display processing unit 7 for displaying a document and a control unit 8 for controlling these functions.

  The annotation data is a material that can be pasted on the document data. As shown in FIG. 2, the annotation data includes an “annotation ID” that identifies the annotation, a “type ID” that identifies the type of annotation, and a “description” about the annotation. ”,“ Annotation content ”that is actual data of the annotation, and the like. In this example, various types of objects such as data such as characters, figures, graphs, tables, and photographs, data obtained by combining these, or document data itself can be used as annotations. The annotation data corresponds to each button of the annotation bar described later on a one-to-one basis, and the corresponding annotation data is automatically specified by specifying the button.

  Icon data is prepared for each annotation type. As shown in FIG. 3, the data structure includes “type ID” that identifies the annotation type, “icon image” that schematically shows the annotation type, and the like. It is composed of

The display processing unit 7 displays a document editing screen 10 as shown in FIG. 4 on the display unit 3 using each data held in the document storage unit 1 and the annotation storage unit 2.
The document editing screen 10 includes a document image 12 generated based on the document data held in the document storage unit 1 and an annotation bar 11 (material selection bar) to which a button is assigned for each annotation data held in the annotation storage unit 2. ) And “icon image” of icon data corresponding to “kind ID” of annotation data assigned to each of the buttons on the annotation bar 11 is displayed.
In addition, the display processing unit 7 displays an image image 14 that embodies the content of the annotation generated based on the annotation data corresponding to the button designated by the cursor 13 by the user's operation of the mouse (input unit 4) or the like. 13 is displayed at the lower left.

  The document processing unit 5 performs processing for editing the corresponding document data in response to an operation input by the input unit 4 performed while the user views the document editing screen 10 displayed on the display unit 11.

When the user operates the mouse or the like (input unit 4) to move the cursor 13 to a button on the annotation bar 11, the annotation processing unit 6 annotates annotation data corresponding to the button indicated by the cursor 13 The display unit 7 is specified by referring to the storage unit 2 and the image 14 of the annotation data is displayed by the display processing unit 7.
In addition, when the user clicks (selects) a button indicated by the cursor 13 by operating the mouse or the like, the annotation processing unit 6 provides annotation data corresponding to the button to the document processing unit 5. , Paste it into the corresponding document data.

Next, an annotation pasting process to a document will be described.
When the user operates the input unit 4 and moves the cursor 13 on any button of the annotation bar 11 to paste the annotation in the document, the annotation processing unit 6 is a button pointed to by the cursor 13. The annotation data corresponding to is identified with reference to the annotation storage unit 2. This specific information is provided to the display processing unit 7, and the display processing unit 7 generates an image image 14 based on the “annotation content” of the specified annotation data and displays it on the lower left part of the cursor 13.

  The user grasps the specific contents of the annotation assigned to the button from the displayed image image 14, and if the annotation is desired by the user, the user operates the input unit 4 to point to the cursor 13. Select the button. Then, the annotation processing unit 6 provides annotation data corresponding to the button (specified in the case of the cursor instruction) to the document processing unit 5.

  After that, as shown in FIG. 5, when the user operates the input unit 4 to specify the position where the annotation is pasted, the document processing unit 5 displays the provided annotation data at the specified position in the document data. The pasting and display processing unit 7 regenerates and displays the document image 12 based on the document data.

  As described above, when the user moves the cursor over the button, which is the operation before selecting the button to paste the annotation into the document, an image that embodies the annotation content assigned to the button is displayed. Therefore, the user can grasp the specific contents of the annotation that is actually pasted by looking at the displayed image, and can select and paste the desired annotation with certainty.

  In addition, since the image is not displayed when the cursor is not located on the button, for example, even when the screen is small like a notebook PC, a sufficient display area for editing the document is secured. It becomes easy. In addition, since the image is displayed in accordance with the conventional operation of moving the cursor on the button to attach the annotation, the user can smoothly edit the document without hindering the user's work.

  Here, the annotation image image 14 can be displayed with its size changed at a predetermined scale, and the scale can be set uniformly for the whole annotation or set for each annotation. In addition, it is possible to set an enlargement ratio, a reduction ratio, and a size itself. Therefore, it is possible to display the image 14 having an appropriate size in accordance with the user's document processing environment.

The image image 14 of the annotation may be a transparent image, and the user can grasp the content of the back side of the image image 14 by displaying the back side through the watermark.
Further, the display position of the annotation image 14 is not limited to the lower left part of the cursor 13, and can be set to another position, and can be displayed at a position desired by the user by registering the display position in advance by the user. it can.

  Also, as shown in FIG. 6, an annotation description (tooltip) 15 can be displayed together with the annotation image image 14. In this example, the contents recorded in the “description” of the annotation data are displayed as the tooltip 15. It is displayed as.

  Ordinarily, only the tool tip 15 can be displayed, and the image 14 can be displayed on condition that the user has performed a predetermined operation. That is, for example, as shown in FIG. 7, the annotation processing unit 6 determines whether the cursor 13 is on the annotation bar (step S <b> 1). It is determined whether a key (for example, the Shift key) is pressed (step S2). If the image key is pressed, the corresponding image image 14 is displayed by the display processing unit 7 (step S3). If the image image key is not pressed, the tooltip 15 is displayed by the display processing unit 7 (step S4).

  In this example, the display processing unit 7 generates and displays the image image 14 each time the annotation data is specified by the annotation processing unit 6, but the image image 14 is generated in advance and each annotation data is displayed. Or may be used for display by being stored in each annotation data.

In this example, the annotation storage unit 2 constitutes a material holding unit according to the present invention, the annotation processing unit 6 constitutes a specifying unit according to the present invention, and the display processing unit 7 according to the present invention. Such display means is configured.
In this example, the annotation storage unit 2, the annotation processing unit 6, and the display processing unit 7 are configured by causing a computer to execute the program according to the present invention, but may be configured by dedicated circuit elements. .
In this example, each function means 1 to 8 is configured on one computer, but each function means may be provided on another computer connected to the network, and information used by each function means is necessary. It is sufficient if it can be acquired according to.

It is a figure explaining the structure of the system which concerns on one Example of this invention. It is a figure explaining annotation data concerning one example of the present invention. It is a figure explaining the icon data based on one Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the annotation image which concerns on one Example of this invention. It is a figure explaining the sticking process of the annotation which concerns on one Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the annotation image which concerns on one Example of this invention. It is a figure explaining the display processing of the annotation image concerning one example of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the tool bar display in a conventional system.

Explanation of symbols

1: document storage unit, 2: annotation storage unit,
3: Display unit, 4: Input unit,
5: Document processing unit, 6: Annotation processing unit,
7: Display processing unit, 8: Control unit, 10: Document editing screen, 11: Annotation bar,
12: Document image 13: Cursor
14: Image, 15: Tooltip

Claims (6)

In the material pasting device for displaying a button corresponding to the material to be pasted on the document on the screen and pasting the corresponding material on the document in response to selecting the button,
Material holding means for holding the material in association with the button;
A specifying means for specifying a material corresponding to the button by referring to the material holding means in response to the button displayed on the screen being pointed by the cursor by the user;
Display means for displaying an image embodying the contents of the specified material on a screen;
A material pasting apparatus comprising: In the raw material sticking device according to claim 1,
The material pasting apparatus, wherein the display means displays an image of the material in the vicinity of the cursor. In the raw material sticking device according to claim 1 or 2,
The material pasting device, wherein the display means transparently displays an image of the material. In the raw material sticking device according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
The material holding means holds explanatory information that explains the material in association with the material,
The material pasting device, wherein the display means displays the explanation information associated with the material together with the image of the material. In a program that configures a material pasting device that displays a button corresponding to a material to be pasted on a document on a screen and pastes a corresponding material on a document in response to selection of the button.
A material holding function that holds materials in association with buttons,
A specific function for specifying a material corresponding to the button with reference to the material holding function in response to the button displayed on the screen being pointed by the cursor by the user;
A display function for displaying an image embodying the contents of the specified material on a screen;
A material pasting program configured by causing a computer to execute. In a method implemented by the material pasting apparatus that displays a button corresponding to the material to be pasted on the document on the screen and pastes the corresponding material on the document in response to selecting the button,
The material sticking device includes a material holding means, a specifying means, and a display means,
The material holding means holds the material in association with the button;
In response to the user pointing the button displayed on the screen with the cursor, the specifying unit specifies the material corresponding to the button with reference to the material holding unit,
The material pasting method, wherein the display means displays an image embodying the content of the identified material on a screen.

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