JP2008300008A - Retrieval result skip display unit - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a retrieval result data display unit for surely displaying data as a result of retrieval for each initial letter, or each initial letter excluding an article. <P>SOLUTION: A music data list of the retrieval result having music data arranged in a predetermined order is input to an externally connected audio device. By discriminating whether a predetermined article such as "The" is attached to the top of the music data, the initial letter excluding the article attached thereto, or the initial letter of the music data are processed to discriminate a capital letter, small letter, double-byte character, single-byte character, and letter with symbol to be of the same letter type. When the initial letters are discriminated to be of the same letter type, the letter is skipped and the next music data is processed in the same manner. When the initial letters are not discriminated to be of the same letter type, the music data is discriminated without skipping. When the discrimination without skipping is performed, the skip display is performed by displaying a list in which the music data concerned is listed on the top. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an audio device that connects and reproduces an audio device that records a large number of songs on a memory, a hard disk, etc., for example, searches for artist data, displays them in alphabetical order, and selects a favorite artist from them. In this case, the present invention relates to a search result skip display device which can be displayed by appropriately skipping in alphabetical units.

  In recent years, with the development of small audio devices, a large amount of music can be recorded on a built-in memory, hard disk, etc., and it can be carried and listened to in a free place. Also, for example, in a vehicular audio device, a large amount of music can be recorded by incorporating a hard disk, or a CD or the like recorded by compressing audio data by MP3 or the like can be reproduced, and those data can be recorded on a memory card. This makes it possible to insert songs and listen to songs with high-performance audio devices.

  When a portable audio device that records a large amount of music as described above is brought into the vehicle and listened to a song, the audio device connected to the vehicle is connected so that sound can be output, and the music reproduced by the portable audio device Can be heard from the speaker of the audio device of the vehicle. Further, the vehicle audio device and the portable audio device are connected so as to be able to exchange signals, the portable audio device is operated by the vehicle audio device, and the audio data recorded in the portable audio device is stored in the vehicle audio device. It can also be captured and played back and listened to through speakers in the car. Such a system is not limited to a vehicle audio device, and can be similarly applied to a home audio device.

  When listening to songs on these various audio devices, you can select your favorite artist from songs recorded in large quantities on the hard disk or memory using the search software prepared in advance by this audio device, and then select a specific artist. Choose your favorite album and listen to any song from it. Therefore, these audio devices are provided with a song search function and can perform, for example, an artist search, an album search, a song name search, and the like.

  At this time, for example, when performing an artist search, if the user operates the audio device to instruct the artist search, the artist name recorded in the audio data is searched, and the recorded audio data For example, a list of artist units arranged in alphabetical order is created and displayed, and the user can select a desired artist from the list. The same applies when searching for an album for a specific artist.

  When performing the artist search as described above and displaying the results, for example, when a large amount of display is possible on a large screen such as a personal computer, most artist names can be displayed on one screen, and at least several screens can be scrolled Can be displayed. However, in a portable audio device, the display portion is narrow, and when displaying in a character size that can be easily seen by a normal user, one artist is displayed on one line and several screens are displayed. It is often possible to display only about people.

  The same applies to the vehicular audio apparatus, and FIG. 7 shows an example of the system configuration and display at that time. In the example shown in the figure, a portable audio device 21 that is compressed by MP3 or the like, stores a large amount of audio data, and can reproduce the audio data is shown as a head audio unit (HU). The connection line 23 is capable of transmitting and receiving data.

  Accordingly, by outputting the same signal as the search instruction signal of the portable audio device 21 by the operation of the in-vehicle audio device 22, the search function as described above of the portable audio device 21 is used, and the search result is used for the vehicle. Although it is possible to display on the display unit 25 of the audio device 22, the display unit 25 has to be small because the size of the vehicle audio device 22 is limited.

A search method in which a desired item can be searched from a large number of items in a short time in an audio device is disclosed in Patent Document 1.
JP 2005-4891 A

  In the vehicle audio device 22 that is used by connecting the portable audio device 21 as described above, even if a search is performed using the search function provided in the portable audio device 21, the search results are displayed in the vehicle. This is unavoidably performed on the display unit 25 of the audio device 22, and may be different from the display function of the portable audio device.

  Further, since the display unit 25 of the vehicle audio device 22 is narrow as described above, when performing the artist search as described above and displaying the result on the display unit 25, the display unit 25 is almost the same as the portable audio device 21. Not only can be displayed, but the screen display of the portable audio device 21 can be displayed in a relatively large number of fine characters because the user often performs operations such as search in a stationary state. The vehicle audio device 22 is often used by the driver, so that it is not possible to make the displayed characters too small in consideration of making the driver easily viewable.

  Thus, for example, when performing an artist search, the names of all artists for songs stored in the data storage unit of the portable audio device are listed in alphabetical order, and a specific artist is selected from among them. Only a small number of search results can be displayed as shown in FIG. In the illustrated example, only five artists can be displayed on one screen. However, the user scrolls the display screen to display a desired artist, and designates the artist by specifying the artist. Will be done. When there are a large number of artists at this time, it takes a lot of time to display the artists arranged in the latter part of the list. To adjust the speed, skill is required.

  Therefore, by instructing “skip” from the screen display that sequentially displays the first character as shown in FIG. 5A, that is, the artist whose initial is “A”, for example, FIG. As shown, a list of artists whose first letter is B is displayed. If the desired artist exists in this, the artist will be specified. If the first letter of the desired artist is “B”, but it is not displayed on this screen, scroll in this state. Thus, a desired artist can be displayed and designated. Similarly, when the artist name desired by the user is “TTTTTT”, for example, by repeating the skip operation or continuing the skip instruction as it is, the character types are set in the order of C, D, E. The artist can be displayed, and “TTTT” can be displayed and designated by the skip and scroll operations.

  On the other hand, when an attempt is made to search by artist name as described above, as a search result of the portable audio device, for example, as shown in FIG. 6A, “AAAAAA” “abbbbb” “ACCCC” “The Add” “AGGGGG” ”And the top of this display column is“ AAAAA ”, which indicates that the list for the character“ A ”is being displayed. That is, as a search function of a portable audio device, when searching for an artist whose first character is the alphabet “A”, in addition to a capital letter “A”, a lowercase letter “a”, a capital letter “A”, Arrange lower-case “a” as the same group. In addition, the artist “The...” Is actually arranged except for “The”, assuming that there is a characteristic part of the artist's name in the portion other than the simple article “The”. .

  When such an arrangement is made and output, and the vehicular audio apparatus that inputs this has only the same display function as the conventional one, when the “skip” operation instruction as described above is given, FIG. As shown in b), it is determined that the capital letter “A” and the lowercase letter “a” are different characters, and the artist “abbbbb” is selected without skipping the first letter “a”. The next display corresponding to the skip operation instruction is displayed. As a result, “abbbbb” exists as an artist of “a” whose first character is a lowercase full-width character, and “ACCCC”, “The Add”, “AGGGGG”, “AHHHH” is displayed. In this case, this screen display indicates that a list of artists whose first character is “a” in lowercase letters is displayed.

  Then, the next character is searched in the same manner as described above by skip instruction or continuation of skip instruction, and the first character of the next artist is “A” in uppercase letters, “ACCCC”. As shown in c), this “ACCCC” is displayed first, and then “The Add”, “AGGGGG”, “AHHHH”, and “AMMMM” are displayed as data is input from the portable audio device. If the skip instruction is further continued, the first character of the next artist is “The Add”, which is a capital letter “T”, so that “The Add” is displayed first as shown in FIG. Thereafter, “AGGGGG”, “AHHHH”, “AMMMM”, and “axxxxx” are displayed as data is input.

  As described above, in the portable audio device, when the first character is “A”, for example, when the first character is “A”, it is assumed that the character type is the same regardless of uppercase, lowercase, full-width, or half-width, and “The” is the leading artist. Are output in alphabetical order with names excluding this, whereas when the vehicle audio device that inputs this data is intended to display a skip, the vehicle audio device uses the normal skip display as described above. It will be displayed by function. Therefore, it is not possible to do this for the same character type that is originally intended to be skipped, and it is possible to skip the artist with the article “The” first, except for the original character. While preferred, this could not be done as described above.

  This causes the same problem not only in the vehicle audio device to which the portable audio device as described above is connected, but also in a general home audio device to which the portable audio device is connected. It can also occur when various audio devices are connected in addition to the portable audio device. Similarly, when skip display is performed using a search result list output by an external audio device, the external device creates and outputs a search list based on the result of excluding the same character type or “The” If the audio device that performs skip display using this search list cannot cope with it and cannot perform appropriate skip, the same problem as described above will occur.

  Therefore, according to the present invention, as a function of the externally connected audio device, the music data obtained as a result of searching in the externally connected audio device is sequentially used for each predetermined character type and based on the characters excluding the leading article. When a list of arranged song data is output, when performing skip display for each character type in the initial part of the song data with the audio device that has input this, the display is surely skipped for each predetermined character type, For song data with a predetermined article at the beginning, it is possible to determine whether or not the first character is the same character type for the character portion excluding this, so that predetermined skip display can be performed reliably. The main object is to provide a search result skip display device that can be used.

  In order to solve the above problems, a search result skip display device according to the present invention inputs audio data from an externally connected audio device, reproduces and outputs the audio data, and displays the search result of the audio device for each piece of music data. In an audio apparatus for inputting and displaying search result data arranged in order, an article discrimination processing unit for discriminating whether or not a predetermined article is attached to the head portion of each piece of music data, and the article discrimination processing unit When it is determined that a predetermined article is attached to the song data in step 1, the same character type is used to determine whether the initial character of the part excluding the article and the other music data are the same character type for the initial part. When the character type determination processing unit and the same character type determination processing unit determine that the initial character is the same character type, this is skipped and the next song data is When it is determined that the character types are not the same, the skip necessity determination unit for determining that the song data is not skipped, and the song data when the skip necessity determination unit determines that the skip is not performed And a post-skip display list creation unit for creating a list starting with.

  Another search result skip display device according to the present invention is characterized in that in the search result skip display device, the article is The.

  Further, in another search result skip display device according to the present invention, in the search result skip display device, the same character type determination processing unit determines uppercase letters, lowercase letters, full-width characters, and half-width characters of the same character as the same character type. And

  Further, in another search result skip display device according to the present invention, in the search result skip display device, the same character type discrimination processing unit discriminates a character in which a predetermined symbol is attached to the same character as the same character type. And

  Further, in another search result skip display device according to the present invention, in the search result skip display device, the post-skip display list creation unit can only remove the skipped character type song data from the input search result data. It is characterized by creating a list.

  Since the present invention is configured as described above, when a search result in an audio device connected to the outside is displayed by inputting search result data arranged in a predetermined order for each piece of music data, a predetermined article at the beginning is displayed. It is possible to determine whether or not the character data is the same character type for the character data except for this, and for the music data that does not have the article, the first character is surely displayed with a predetermined skip display. Will be able to do.

  The present invention discriminates whether or not the first character of the part except for the song data with the article at the head and the same character type with respect to the first character of the music data without the article and the first character. The problem of being able to perform skip display when it is not, is to input audio data of an externally connected audio device, play it back, and output the search result of the audio device for each piece of music data In an audio apparatus for inputting and displaying search result data arranged in order, an article discrimination processing unit for discriminating whether or not a predetermined article is attached to the head portion of each piece of music data, and the article discrimination processing unit When it is determined that a predetermined article is attached to the song data, the initial part of the part excluding the article and the other song data are For the character portion, the same character type discrimination processing unit for discriminating whether or not it is the same character type, and when the initial character is discriminated by the same character type discrimination processing unit, this is skipped and the next song data is When it is determined that the character types are not the same, the skip necessity determination unit for determining that the song data is not skipped, and the song data when the skip necessity determination unit determines that the skip is not performed This is realized by providing a post-skip display list creation unit that creates a list with the head of.

  FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a search result skip display processing unit 1 that performs a search result skip display process in an embodiment of a search result skip display apparatus according to the present invention. The search result skip display processing unit 1 shown in FIG. 1 has a vehicular audio system in which a portable audio device 21 is connected to a signal line 23 or the like so as to be able to send and receive signals, as in the system configuration of the conventional audio device shown in FIG. It is used as a processing unit for the internal function of the device 22.

  The search result skip display processing unit 1 of FIG. 1 includes a search result song data input unit 2 for fetching song data from the portable audio device as described above connected to the audio device. In 2, the data in alphabetical order as the result of the artist search, for example, output by the portable audio device is also acquired. As the data arranged in alphabetical order for the initials of each artist in the artist search result acquired here, for example, a screen display example 13A shown as a search screen display example in FIG. ), The search results arranged in order of “AAAAA” “abbbbb” “ACCCC” “The Add” “AGGGGG”...

  That is, as described above, when searching for an artist whose initial is the alphabet “A” as a search function of the portable audio device, in addition to the uppercase “A”, the lowercase “byte” and the uppercase halfwidth “a” "A" and lowercase half-width "a" are also arranged as the same character type. In addition, regarding the artist "The ...", it is assumed that there is a characteristic part of the artist's name in the part excluding the mere article "The", and based on the first character of the part excluding this "The" The array is output.

  The article “The” discrimination processing unit 3 in the search result skip display processing unit 1 uses the search result song data input unit 2 in the alphabetical order data of the search results obtained from the portable audio device as described above. To check whether or not the article “The” exists. Here, the “The” pattern comparison unit 4 is provided, and the “The” as the article is used in the patterns of “THE”, “the”, and “The”, and these are all the articles “The”. Is determined.

  In the space check processing unit 5 after “The” in the article “The” discrimination processing unit 3, even if “The” as described above exists at the beginning of the artist name, for example, a character such as “There” is displayed. Therefore, it is checked whether or not there is a space immediately after “The”. It should be noted that, after “The”, there may be a mode in which three spaces are included depending on how the user inputs, including a half-width and full-width mode, but when there is at least one space, the article “ It can be determined that “The”. In consideration of various aspects of the user, the space between “The” and the next character may be checked up to 1 to 3 characters.

  In the same character type discrimination processing unit 6, in the alphabetical order data input from the portable audio device by the search result song data input unit 2, for example, “A” of the alphabet specified by the skip character type specifying unit 8, There are uppercase full-width “A”, lowercase full-width “a”, uppercase half-width “A”, and lowercase half-width “a”, which are handled and output as the same character type. In order to handle them in the same way, those having the same character type are discriminated.

  In the illustrated example, the same character type discrimination processing unit 6 is provided with the same character type table 7 so that various types of characters illustrated in FIG. 1 or shown in FIG. 3 can be handled easily as the same character type. Provide a table. That is, when using this table, a code number such as an ASCII code, a Unicode code or a shift JIS code of the first character of the artist name in the input song data is detected, and a code registered in the same character type table 7 as shown in the figure. By comparing the numbers, it can be easily determined whether or not they are the same character type.

  In the same character type discrimination processing unit 6, when the article “The” discrimination processing unit 3 detects that the article “The” is present at the head of the character as described above, the detection signal is input, and the article The character following the space after is regarded as the original first character, and the above-described check is performed to determine whether or not the character is the same character type.

  The skip necessity determination unit 10 determines whether or not the character type is specified by the skip character type specifying unit 8 based on the check result in the article “The” determination processing unit 3 and the determination processing result in the same character type determination processing unit 6. If it is determined that it is the same character type, skip and import the music data of the next artist name, etc., perform the above-mentioned comparative study on the music data, and do not skip when it is determined that they are not the same character type It is determined as a thing.

  The post-skip display list creation unit 11 inputs a signal determined by the skip necessity determination unit 10 that the skip is not required, and creates a list starting with the artist determined that the skip is not required. The post-skip list display output unit 12 outputs the list created by the post-skip display list creation unit 11 to the display screen. As a result, as shown in the screen display examples 13A, 13B, and 13C as search screen display examples in FIG.

  The skip instruction input unit 9 inputs a skip instruction from the remote control of the audio apparatus or by key operation of the audio apparatus. At this time, in addition to an instruction input for each time by the user, a continuous key pressing operation for a predetermined time or more may be detected and automatically skipped in alphabetical order. The skip character type specifying unit 8 specifies the character type to be subjected to the skip display process in accordance with such a skip instruction input or by a method such as determining the first character of the character type currently displayed in the list.

  The search result skip display processing unit 1 including functional blocks as shown in FIG. 1 can perform skip display according to the present invention by sequentially operating according to the operation flow as shown in FIG. In the example of the search result skip display process shown in FIG. 2, for example, in order to select a song from an artist name, the user first gives an instruction to display the artist in alphabetical order, and correspondingly, the artist name is input from an external device or the like. Data arranged in alphabetical order is output, and initial display in alphabetical order is made based on the data by the amount that can be displayed on the screen from the first artist of “A”, which is the first letter of the alphabet (step S1). This state is shown in the screen display example 14A in FIG. 1 and FIG. 4A as another display mode.

  Thereafter, it is determined whether or not there has been an instruction from the user to perform skip display in the same character type unit (step S2). Such skip display instructions are performed according to the user's will, especially when there are a large number of artists when there is a large amount of stored audio data and it is likely that it will take time to simply scroll. This determination process can be determined by detecting whether or not an instruction signal from the user is input by the skip instruction input unit 9 of FIG.

  When it is determined in step S2 that a skip display instruction for the same character type unit has been input, the character type is specified in order (step S3). That is, when the list display from the first part of “A”, which is the first character type of the alphabet, is performed as the initial screen display as described above, this character type “A” is set as the character type to be specified. In addition, when a list of the next character type “B” is displayed by the subsequent skip processing, “B” is set as the character type to be specified.

  Thereafter, “abbbbb”, which is the second artist name as the next song data after “AAAAAA”, which is the first artist name of the currently displayed character type, is acquired (step S4). Next, in the illustrated example, “The” pattern comparison processing is performed (step S5). That is, here, when the article name is prefixed with “The”, the portable audio device regards the portion other than this as having the characteristics of the artist name, and creates a list of artist names. Since the data is output, the “The” pattern comparison process is first performed to cope with the output.

  In this pattern comparison process, it is first determined whether or not “The” is present at the beginning of the artist name. In this case, there are various ways to use the character “The”. , “THE” in all uppercase letters, “the” in all lowercase letters, and various characters including full-width and half-width characters, so any one of “The”, “THE”, “the”, etc. registered in advance When it exists in the head part of, it is processed that there is a possibility of being “The”. These processes are performed by the “The” pattern comparison processing unit 4 in the article “The” discrimination processing unit 3 of FIG. 1 as described above.

  Thereafter, it is determined whether or not the patterns match (step S6). If it is determined that the pattern matches any of the various “The” patterns as a result of the process, a process for determining whether or not a space exists next to “The” is performed (step S7). ). In other words, as described above, even if “The” is present at the beginning of the character, it is considered that the character is a part of another character such as “There”. In order to determine whether or not “” is the article “The” as an independent character, it is determined whether or not there is a space after “The”. It is conceivable that there are many such processes especially when the character type is alphabet “T”. This processing is performed by the space check processing unit 5 after “The” in FIG.

  Next, even if it is determined in step S6 that the “The” pattern does not match, a check process is performed to determine whether or not they are the same character type (step S8). In this processing, as shown in the same character type table example of FIG. 3, for the same character type “A”, as described above, capital letters, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, lowercase letters, and lowercase letters are used mainly in French. With grab, with axantil flex, with cedilla, with axanteg, with axantil flex, with trema, with ring mainly used in Swedish, with umlaut mainly used in German, mainly in Spanish and Portuguese Alphabet characters, such as with tilde used, with harchek used mainly in Czech and Finnish, with ogonek used mainly in Polish, with dots, with strokes, and circled characters in which the alphabet characters are surrounded by a circle symbol. Against various For even symbols with characters marked with No., to be determined as a character type of alphabet characters removed this symbol.

  In order to discriminate these same character types, ASCII code and Unicode corresponding to various characters as shown in FIG. 3, and unified code numbers such as shift JIS codes are recorded in the same character type table. Accordingly, when determining whether or not the character type is the same as that in the previous step in step S9, this table is referred to, and when the code number is recorded in the table, it is determined that the character type is the same. Accordingly, for example, “abbbbb” in FIG. 4A can be determined as the same character type as before and skipped. If it is determined in step S9 that the character type is the same as the previous character type, for example, the next song data such as the next listed artist is acquired (step S10), and then the process returns to step S5 to perform the comparison process and the like. repeat.

  When it is determined in step S9 that the character type is not the same as the previous character type, it is considered that the character type has changed from this artist, and a list display starting from this artist is performed (step S10). At the time of this list display, the post-skip display list creation unit 11 can create a list in which only the skipped character type music data is excluded from the search result data input from the externally connected audio device. That is, when the character type of the first character of the artist at the top is “B”, for example, it is necessary to set so that only a list of character types considered to have “B” as the initial character is displayed. There is no problem in the skip display processing even if all the music data of all character types existing after this character type are displayed in the display list. Therefore, by displaying on the screen that the first character type currently listed is, for example, “B”, there is substantially no difference from the case where only the character type is displayed in a list, and the display process is facilitated.

  As a result of the above processing, it is determined whether or not the character type is substantially the same as the previous artist name in order from the top in accordance with the artist name list of the artist search result as shown in FIG. Then, all the artists shown in FIG. 6A are skipped, and when “BBBBB” appears, it is discriminated as another character type, and the display as shown in FIG. Similarly, for the artist displayed here, “bcccc”, “The bea”, “THE BF”, etc. are also skipped, and when an artist of “CCCCC” appears, it is determined as another character type. Thereafter, similar skip display such as the display of FIG. 6D can be performed by the same processing, and the problem of performing the display as shown in FIG. 6 in the prior art can be solved.

  In the above example, an example of artist search has been described, but it can also be used in the same way for various searches such as album search. In addition to the above-mentioned processing of removing “The” as an article, “a” or “le” in French, “la”, and similar articles such as German, Spanish, etc. A method for determining the above may be added. Considering such various languages, the audio data has been internationalized due to the extensive use of music data collection on the Web in recent years, and is useful when displaying such character types as described above when searching for these artists.

It is a functional block diagram of the Example of this invention. It is an operation | movement flowchart of the search result skip display process in the Example. It is a figure which shows the example of the same character type tail. It is a figure which shows the example of a skip display by this invention. It is a figure which shows the basic example of a skip display. It is a figure which shows the example of the conventional skip display. It is a figure which shows the system structural example of the audio apparatus on which this invention presupposes.

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1 Search result skip display processing section
2 Search result song data input unit 3 Article “The” discrimination processing unit 4 “The” pattern comparison processing unit 5 Space check processing unit after “The” 6 Same character type discrimination processing unit 7 Same character type table 8 Skip character type specifying unit 9 Skip instruction input section 10 Skip necessity determination section 11 Post-skip display list creation section 12 Post-skip list display output section 13 Search screen display example

Claims (5)

In an audio device that inputs audio data of an externally connected audio device and reproduces and outputs it, and inputs and displays search result data in which search results of the audio device are arranged in a predetermined order for each piece of music data,
An article determination processing unit for determining whether or not a predetermined article is attached to a head portion in each piece of music data;
Whether the article determination processing unit determines that a predetermined article is attached to the song data, and whether or not the other song data is of the same character type for the initial part, and other song data The same character type discrimination processing unit for discriminating between
When it is determined that the initial character is the same character type in the same character type determination processing unit, this is skipped and the determination processing is performed for the next music data, and when it is determined that they are not the same character type, the music data is not skipped. A skip necessity determination unit that performs determination;
A search result skip display device, comprising: a post-skip display list creation unit that creates a list with the music data at the head when the skip necessity / unnecessity judgment unit makes a decision not to skip.   The search result skip display device according to claim 1, wherein the article is The.   The search result skip display device according to claim 1, wherein the same character type determination processing unit determines uppercase letters, lowercase letters, full-width characters, and half-width characters of the same characters as the same character type.   The search result skip display device according to claim 1, wherein the same character type discrimination processing unit discriminates a character in which a predetermined symbol is added to the same character as the same character type.   5. The search result skip according to claim 1, wherein the post-skip display list creation unit creates a list only by removing music data of a character type that has already been skipped from the input search result data. Display device.

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