JP2010205231A - Display apparatus and display method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display apparatus that displays pieces of content configuring a content group in different ways by distinguishing between the content available throughout a desired display period, and the content not available. <P>SOLUTION: The display apparatus includes: a content group display means for displaying a content group including content with an expiration date; a use period input means to be used for inputting a use period; a comparison means for comparing the use period input through the use period input means with the expiration date of each piece of content; and a display control means for reflecting and displaying the result of the comparison obtained by the comparison means, on the content group display means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for displaying a list of reduced images.

  There are cases where reduced images of various contents are listed and displayed by software for laying out images and creating a page or a viewer for listing images.

  In recent years, content data with expiration dates has been on the market, and it is required to use the content for a desired purpose while keeping these expiration dates.

  It is known that the remaining expiration date of each content is relatively visualized and displayed for each content by reflecting the remaining expiration date on the correction strength and drawing.

  In this conventional example, the content use time limit is compared with the current date and time, and the remaining time limit for the whole is relatively reflected in the reduced image display.

  As a result, it is possible to grasp how much the expiration date of each content has passed.

  It is also known to display a list of documents that are valid on a specified date (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2006-39654 A

  By the way, when creating a poster for posting outside the company by arranging multiple images with expiration dates, the expiration date of the data with expiration dates included in the poster must be met for a certain period of time when posting this poster is planned. May be required.

  In the invention described in Patent Document 1, although the usage expiration time of each content at the present time can be visually grasped, it is difficult to determine whether the content can be used for a desired period.

  In the invention described in Patent Document 2, it is possible to determine whether or not a document is valid on a specified date, but it is determined whether or not it is valid in a specified period in which a start date and an end date are specified. I can't.

  Therefore, when creating a poster with a posting period using content with an expiration date, the operator must manually check whether the content satisfies the posting period one by one. There is a problem that the work is complicated.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a display device capable of distinguishing and displaying content that can be used and content that cannot be used in a desired posting period for a plurality of contents that constitute a content group. And

  The present invention also provides content that can be used during the entire desired posting period, content that can be used only during a portion of the desired posting period, and content that does not overlap the posting period and the expiration date. It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device that can distinguish and display.

  The present invention includes a content group display unit that displays a content group including content with a usage period limit, a usage period input unit that inputs a usage period, and a usage period that is input via the usage period input unit. The display device includes a comparison unit that compares the expiration date of each content, and a display control unit that displays the comparison result compared by the comparison unit on the content group display unit.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to distinguish and display usable content and unusable content for a plurality of contents constituting a content group in all periods of a desired posting period.

It is a hardware block diagram of the display apparatus 100 which is Example 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the screen of the application in Example 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data configuration of content on a storage unit 104. FIG. It is a figure which shows the data structure of a poster document. It is a figure, such as an item of a setting dialog and a display method selection combo box. It is a figure which shows the example of a setting of the setting dialog shown to Fig.5 (a). It is a figure of the new dialog displayed at the time of poster document new creation. It is a figure which shows the reduced image list display area 201 in detail. 6 is a flowchart of an operation for displaying a reduced image in the first embodiment. It is a figure which shows the relationship between the posting deadline of a poster, and the deadline of content. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a modification of the reduced image list display area 201 in the second embodiment.

  The mode for carrying out the invention is the following embodiment.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of a display device 100 that is Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

  The display device 100 is a system in which poster creation application software is operated on a computer, and a printing device such as a printer and an input device such as a scanner are connected to the PC. Hereinafter, the computer is referred to as “PC”, and the application software is referred to as “application”. A range enclosed by a dotted line in FIG. 1 is a PC, the printing device is a printing unit 105, and an image input device such as a scanner is an image input unit 106. The display device 100 is an embodiment of a device that displays content that can be used in a poster creation application.

  The display device 100 includes an input unit 101, a central processing unit 102, a display unit 103, a storage unit 104, a printing unit 105, an image input unit 106, and an external storage unit 107.

  The input unit 101 is an input unit such as a keyboard / mouse of a PC. The central processing unit 102 is a CPU of the PC, and performs management control of the system, input image input processing and image display processing, print editing data generation processing, print instruction to the printing unit, and the like. The display means 103 is a display of a PC, and is used for displaying an operation screen of a poster creation application and displaying contents used in the poster.

  The storage unit 104 is a PC hard disk, RAM, or the like that stores image data files and temporary files for editing. The printing unit 105 is a printer, and prints out print data created or edited by the poster creation application. The image input means 106 is a film scanner, a flat bed scanner, a digital camera or the like connected to a PC. The external storage unit 107 corresponds to a storage medium such as a memory card used in a floppy (registered trademark) drive, a digital camera, and the like and a drive device thereof.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an application screen according to the first embodiment. Using this screen, the user creates and edits a poster.

  The reduced image list display area 201 displays a list of available contents. When the edit page section 202 arranges content and selects the print button 205, the edit page section 202 is output from the printing unit 105. A new button 206 is a button for generating a new poster document.

  The user can add the content 203 to the page by dragging the content from the reduced image list display area 201 using the input unit 101 such as a mouse and dropping the content on the editing page unit 202.

  A property button 204 is a button for setting display conditions and a display form of the reduced image list display area 201.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data structure of content on the storage unit 104.

  One piece of content data includes a header section 301, a copyright information section 302, an expiration date section 303, and an image section 304. Data can be defined by this application. The image part can be a general-purpose raster image such as Jpg, Tiff, PNG, or Bmp, or a vector image such as SVG, Wmf, Emf, PDF, or EPS format. It may be data.

  Also, it is assumed that a plurality of these content data exist in the memory 309 and are content C1, content C2, content C3, and content C4 stored in the memory 309.

  In addition to the storage unit 104, content data may exist in the external storage unit 107.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the data structure of a poster document.

  The poster document data includes a header section 401, a copyright information section 402, a posting period section 403, and a poster data section 404. The poster document data may exist in the storage unit 104 or the external storage unit 107.

  In the first embodiment, the poster data is an SVG file, but an original data format or another general-purpose format may be used.

  FIG. 5A shows a setting dialog.

  A column 501 is a column for displaying that the text is “satisfying period” and a display method selection combo box 504 for selecting a display method corresponding to the text.

  A column 502 is a column for displaying that the text is “part of the period” and a display method selection combo box 505 for selecting a display method corresponding to the text.

  A column 503 is a column for displaying that the text is “does not satisfy the period” and a display method selection combo box 506 for selecting a display method corresponding to the text.

  The setting dialog is provided with an OK button 507 for confirming each setting and a cancel button 508 for ending without confirming the setting.

  This setting dialog is activated when the property button 204 is selected.

  The user can customize the display method of the content with a time limit for the posting period in this setting dialog.

  FIG. 5B is a diagram showing a list of items in the display method selection combo box.

  Items in the display method selection combo box are configured by “display in red”, “display in blue”, “display in yellow”, and “non-display”.

  When non-display is selected, the image of the condition is not displayed on the edit page unit 202 on the screen of the application.

  When display in red, blue, or yellow is selected, the background portion around each content image is displayed in a predetermined color in the reduced image list display area of the application.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a setting example of the setting dialog shown in FIG.

  Blue is set as the display when the condition and period are satisfied, yellow is set as the display when only a part of the condition and period is satisfied, and non-display is set when the condition and period are not satisfied .

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a new dialog displayed when creating a new poster document.

  In the posting start date edit box 1101, the start date of poster posting is entered. In the posting end date edit box 1102, an end date of posting the poster is entered. An OK button 1104 activates the set value and creates a poster document.

  A cancel button 1103 is a button for discarding the set value and ending poster document creation.

  The dialog shown in FIG. 7 is displayed when the new button 206 is selected. The posting period set in this dialog is the data in the posting period part 403 of the poster document. When specifying the posting period, it is necessary to input at least a start date or an end date.

  FIG. 8 shows the reduced image list display area 201 in detail.

  The content C1, the content C2, the content C3, and the content C4 are used, the data shown in FIG. 4 is used as the poster data, and the setting indicates a display state when the setting shown in FIG. 6 is used.

  First, the poster posting period section 403 is from 2007/11/11 to 2007/12/31.

  Since the content C1 has no expiration date as content, it can be used without limitation. Therefore, when displaying, the background 701 is displayed in white without performing any special drawing.

  Content C2 has an expiration date of 2007/10/30 to 2008/05/30. Since this expiration date includes the entire poster posting period, this content can be used throughout the poster posting period. Therefore, the background form 702 of the reduced image is drawn in blue for the content C2 in accordance with the setting when the period is satisfied, that is, the setting of the display method selection combo box when the period is satisfied.

  Content C3 has an expiration date of 2007/12/10 to 2007/12/20. Since this expiration date includes only a part of the poster posting period, this content can be used only during a part of the poster posting period. Therefore, the background form 703 of the reduced image is drawn in yellow for the content C3 in accordance with the setting when the partial period is satisfied, that is, the setting of the display method selection combo box when the partial period is satisfied. ing.

  The content C4 has an expiration date of 2008/02/01 to 2008/12/31. Since this expiration date does not include the entire poster posting period, this content cannot be used in this poster posting period. Therefore, the display mode of the content C4 is not displayed in the reduced image list display area in accordance with the setting when the period is not satisfied, that is, the setting of the display method selection combo box when the period is not satisfied. . In FIG. 8, in order to show non-display, the leader line of the content C4 is indicated by a broken line.

  Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an operation for displaying a reduced image in the first embodiment.

  First, when an application is activated, content is read from a desired path, and the read content is displayed in the reduced image list display area 201. As contents displayed at this time, contents having expiration date information and contents not having are displayed.

  In this state, since the poster document is not created, the display does not change according to the expiration date of the content.

  When the new button 206 is selected, a new dialog shown in FIG. 7 is activated.

  After the posting deadline is entered, the OK button 1104 is selected, and when finished, a poster document is created. Immediately after this, the reduced image list display is updated according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  In step S901, information on the posting period is acquired from the poster document. If there is content with an expiration date to be processed in S902, the processing is repeated. Processing is not performed for content that does not have an expiration date, such as content C1. In step S903, the expiration date of the content is compared with the poster posting period. As a result, if the content can be used during the poster posting period, the process proceeds to S904, and the background of the reduced image is drawn in blue according to the setting shown in FIG.

  As a result of the comparison, if the content is valid for only a part of the poster posting period, the process proceeds to S905, and the background of the reduced image is drawn in yellow according to the setting shown in FIG.

  As a result of the comparison, if the content is not valid for all the poster posting periods, the content is not drawn according to the setting shown in FIG.

  FIG. 10A is a diagram showing the relationship between the poster posting deadline and the content deadline with respect to the poster posting deadline shown in FIG.

  FIG. 10A shows how the display condition is determined for the content C1, the content C2, the content C3, the content C4, and the content C5.

  The drawing of the reduced image list is changed according to the determination result and the setting state of the setting dialog shown in FIG.

  Next, the operation when neither the start date nor the end date is input will be described.

  If no start date is entered, the current date and time is set as the start date and compared with the expiration date.

  If no end date is input, it is determined that all contents that have an end date for the expiration date of the content satisfy a partial period.

  FIG. 10B is a diagram illustrating a comparison result with each content when the end date is not input.

  The poster posting period starts from 2007/12/11. In this case, the content C1 is always valid because there is no expiration date set. In the contents C2 and C3, the start date satisfies the posting period, but since the end date is set, it is determined that a part of the period is satisfied.

  Although the content C4 has a late start date, it is determined that the partial period is satisfied because a part of the poster posting period is valid.

  The content C5 is determined not to be satisfied because the posting period does not overlap with the expiration date.

  Since the content C6 is set such that the start date satisfies the posting period and the end date is none, it is determined that all the periods are satisfied.

  The first embodiment can also be realized by a system or an information processing apparatus reading a recording medium that records a program that implements the functions of the first embodiment and executing the program. In this case, since the program recorded on the recording medium realizes the function of the first embodiment, the recording medium on which the program is recorded also constitutes the present invention.

  The configuration of the second embodiment of the present invention is basically the same as the configuration of the first embodiment, and is an embodiment in which the display of the reduced image list display area 201 is modified.

  In the flowchart shown in FIG. 9, there are three types, one that can be used for the whole period, one that can be used for a part, and one that cannot be used for the whole period.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the reduced image list display area 201 is deformed in the second embodiment.

  An area 1201 is an area for displaying a list of contents that can be used for the entire period. In the area 1201, content C1 with no usage time limit and content C2 when the usage time limit satisfies the entire usage period are displayed.

  An area 1202 displays an area that partially satisfies the usage period.

  An area 1203 is an area for displaying content that cannot be used for the entire period when the setting in the setting dialog is not hidden.

  Accordingly, the content that can be used for the entire period is displayed in the upper stage, that is, displayed preferentially, and the content that can be used efficiently can be selected with a small number of scroll operations.

  According to the above-described embodiment, when displaying a content group including a content group including a content with a usage time limit, it is possible to distinguish and display what is valid for a desired posting period and what is not.

  As a result, it is possible to easily create a poster that uses only content that is valid during a desired validity period.

  In addition, the posting period is adjusted to meet the partial period by distinguishing and displaying those that satisfy the full period, those that satisfy the partial period, and those that do not overlap all the desired posting period. Things can be used.

  As a result, it is possible to create a flexible poster while keeping the expiration date.

  Further, by hiding content that does not satisfy the desired posting period, it is possible to omit display of extra content and efficiently select content when selecting content.

  In the above-described embodiment, the display unit 103 is an example of a content group display unit that displays a content group including content with a usage time limit.

  The input unit 101 is an example of a usage period input unit that inputs a usage period.

  The central processing unit 102 is an example of a comparison unit that compares the usage period input via the usage period input unit with the usage period of each content.

  The central processing unit 102 is an example of a display control unit that displays the comparison result compared by the comparison unit on the content group display unit.

  In this case, the use period is a period in which at least one of the start date and the end date is specified. The comparison means is means for determining whether or not the period input via the use period input means can be used for the entire period.

  Furthermore, the comparison means can use at least one of being usable only for a part of the period inputted through the utilization period input means and not being usable for the whole period of the inputted period. It is a means for determination. In addition, the display control means is means for changing the display form of the result of the determination, or for hiding the result of the determination. The display control means is means for separately displaying contents for each comparison result of the comparison means.

  The above embodiment can be grasped as a method invention. That is, in the above-described embodiment, the content group display process for displaying the content group including the content with the expiration date, the usage period input via the usage period input unit, and the comparison period for comparing the usage period of each content It is an example of the display method which has a process. Moreover, the said Example is an example of the display method which has a display control process which reflects and displays the result compared by the said comparison process, when displaying the said content group.

  The present invention can display time-limited content that is valid for the entire period or a part of the period for posting the document to be edited. Therefore, it is useful for an application having an expiration date management function.

100 ... display device,
701 ... Background when there is no time limit,
702 ... Background when the period is satisfied,
703 ... Background when part of the period is met,
1101 ... Posting start date edit box,
1102 ... Posting end date edit box.

Claims (12)

Content group display means for displaying a content group including content for which a usage period is set;
A usage period input means for entering a usage period;
Comparing means for comparing the usage period input via the usage period input means with the expiration date of each content;
Display control means for causing the content group display means to reflect and display the comparison result compared by the comparing means;
A display device comprising: Claim 1 wherein
The display device according to claim 1, wherein the use period is a period in which at least one of a start date and time and an end date and time is designated. Claim 1 wherein
The display device according to claim 1, wherein the comparing means is means for determining whether or not the period inputted through the utilization period input means is usable for the entire period. Claim 1 wherein
The comparison means determines at least one of being usable only for a part of the period inputted through the utilization period input means and not being usable for the entire period of the inputted period. A display device characterized by being a means. Claim 1 wherein
The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control means is means for changing a display form of the result of the comparison or for hiding the result of the comparison. Claim 1 wherein
The display device, wherein the display control means is a means for separately displaying contents for each comparison result of the comparison means. A content group display step for displaying a content group including content that has a usage period;
A comparison step of comparing the usage period input via the usage period input means with the expiration date of each content;
A display control step of reflecting and displaying the result of the comparison in the comparison step when displaying the content group;
A display method characterized by comprising: It is claim 7, Comprising:
The display method according to claim 1, wherein the usage period is a period for designating at least one of a start date and time and an end date and time. It is claim 7, Comprising:
The display method according to claim 1, wherein the comparison step is a step of determining a case in which the entire period can be used with respect to the period input through the usage period input unit. It is claim 7, Comprising:
The comparison step determines at least one of being usable only for a part of the period inputted through the utilization period input means and not being usable for the whole period of the inputted period. A display method characterized by being a process. It is claim 7, Comprising:
The display control step is a step of changing a display form of the comparison result or hiding the comparison result. It is claim 7, Comprising:
The display control step is a step of displaying content separately for each result of the comparison step.

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