JP2011096204A - Device, method and program for decoration display, and computer readable recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a decoration display device for displaying a plurality of decorations added to the same position within a document to be identified from each other. <P>SOLUTION: The decoration display device includes: an overlapping decoration detection part 25a for detecting whether the plurality of decorations are added to a character at the same position; and a decoration information change part 25c for changing at least one of the display position and display time of the decorations so that the plurality of decorations are different respectively when the overlapping decoration detection part 25a detects that the plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position. Thus, the decoration display device 1 is capable of displaying the plurality of decorations added to the same position within a document to be identified from each other. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a decoration display device, a decoration display method, a decoration display program, and a computer-readable recording medium capable of displaying a plurality of decorations added at the same position in a document so that they can be distinguished from each other.

  Opportunities to browse a wide variety of Web pages are increasing due to the spread of the Internet. When a user finds an interesting page, text, etc., the information in the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is shared with other users. You may want to do that. As a technique for realizing such information sharing, there is a technique called a social bookmark.

  Unlike simple online bookmarking services, social bookmarking is characterized by sharing bookmarks among many users and adding information such as classification, popularity, comments, and explanations. In particular, many of the recent services use words and phrases called “tags” that can be freely set by the user, rather than a fixed or hierarchical classification method like conventional Web directories. The user can attach a plurality of arbitrary tags to one address at the time of registration, and a plurality of users can attach a tag to one address. As a result, it is possible to browse the bookmarks of users who have the same interest as the user, and to discover a new site based on a common point of insight that was unthinkable. Examples of such social bookmarks include Netarika (http://netallica.yahoo.co.jp/) and Commons Marker (http://commonsmarker.com/).

  Among these, “Netarika” is a method in which the user adds a color selected from five colors on the text of the Web page, and it is also possible to display a plurality of user marks at the same time. It should be noted that in “Netarika”, one user cannot add a color in a superimposed manner, and when a color is added later, the color added later is overwritten.

  With "Commons marker", marks and annotations can be added to sentences on a Web page, and a single user can add marks. It is also possible to display a plurality of user marks at the same time. In the “commons marker”, only one color is displayed.

  Unlike social bookmarks, there is “PDF-XChange Viewer” (http://www.docu-track.com/) as a software with a function to annotate PDF files. “PDF-XChange Viewer” can add marks and annotations on the text of a pdf file, and a single user can also add marks. Also, the user name with a mark or the like is recorded, and the user name is displayed by placing the mouse cursor on the mark.

  On the other hand, Patent Document 1 proposes a management method in which a plurality of users add additional information such as highlighting and necessary comments to an object in an arbitrary page, and other users share the additional information. is doing. In this management method, one or more people add additional information including highlight information such as underline, marker, italic, bold, etc., and annotation information such as comments and related articles, to an object such as a character string in the page. This makes it possible to see them at a glance when browsing the page, and visualizes how each system user is interested.

JP 2008-117374 A (published May 22, 2008)

  However, in the technique of Patent Document 1, although the underline portion as additional information is displayed with the line type changed for each user, the underline portion attached by the same user has the same line type (Patent Document 1). FIG. 1). Therefore, in such a case, it is impossible for the user to recognize that a portion where two or more underlined portions are overlapped is an overlapping portion. That is, with the technique of Patent Document 1, it is not possible to display all the additional information in a distinguishable manner.

  Also, in “Netarika”, when there are overlapping portions in two or more colors (additional information) added by the user, the portions are expressed by changing the shade of the color, and the original color added by the user Will be ignored. In addition, there is a possibility that the location is not a location where two or more colors overlap but is a location newly added by another user.

  The “commons marker”, when two or more additional information added by the user overlaps, increases the character size at the overlapped portion and displays it externally. Therefore, as the number of overlapping portions increases, the layout of the entire document is destroyed. Also, the user cannot grasp the degree of decoration overlap only by increasing the character size.

  In “PDF-XChange Viewer”, if there are overlapping parts in two or more colors (additional information) added by the user, they are mixed and displayed, and the original color added by the user is ignored. Result. In addition, it is impossible to distinguish whether the location is a region where colors overlap or a color newly added by another user.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a decoration display device and decoration capable of displaying a plurality of decorations added at the same position in a document so as to be distinguishable from each other. It is an object to provide a display method, a decoration display program, and a computer-readable recording medium.

In order to solve the above problems, a decorative display device according to the present invention is
A decoration display device for displaying decorations added to characters in a document,
Detecting means for detecting whether or not a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position;
Changing means for changing at least one of the display position and display time of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different when the detection means detects that a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position; It is characterized by having.

Moreover, in order to solve the above-described problem, the decorative display method according to the present invention provides:
A decoration display method for displaying decorations added to characters in a document,
A detection step for detecting whether or not a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position;
A change step of changing at least one of the display position and display time of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different when it is detected that a plurality of decorations are added at the same position in the detection step; It is characterized by including.

  According to the above configuration, the detecting means (detecting step) detects whether or not a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position with respect to the decoration added to the character in the document. Then, when the detecting means (step) detects that a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position, the changing means differs in at least one of the decoration display position and the display time from each of the plurality of decorations. Change as follows.

  Therefore, the decoration display device (decoration display method) according to the present invention, when a plurality of decorations are added to the same position and there is a portion overlapping the decoration, at least one of the display position and the display time of the decoration Since the decorations are changed so as to be different, a plurality of decorations can be displayed so as to be distinguishable from each other. Therefore, the decoration display device (decoration display method) according to the present invention displays the plurality of decorations without any loss even when there are overlapping portions in the plurality of decorations added by one or more users. Can be made.

  As a result, the decorative display device (decorative display method) according to the present invention can solve the problems that cannot be solved by the prior art.

  Specifically, the decoration display device (decoration display method) according to the present invention is the subject of Patent Document 1, that is, although the line type of the underline part as decoration is changed for each user and displayed, The added underlined portion has the same line type, and in this case, the problem that a plurality of decorations cannot be distinguished from each other can be solved. That is, in the decoration display device (decoration display method) according to the present invention, even if the underline is added by the same user, at least one of the display position and the display time is changed so that each decoration is different. (Underline) can be displayed so as to be distinguishable from each other.

  In addition, the decoration display device (decoration display method) according to the present invention has a problem such as “spoiled”, that is, when there is a place that overlaps two or more colors (decoration) added by the user, the place is a color. It is possible to solve the problem that a plurality of decorations cannot be distinguished from each other because they are expressed in different shades. That is, in the decoration display device (decoration display method) according to the present invention, even when two or more colors are added to the same position, at least one of the display position and the display time is changed to be different from each other. Therefore, the two colors can be displayed so as to be distinguishable from each other.

  The addition of decoration includes addition of underline and shadow character decorations, addition of side points, addition of a frame to the outer edge of the decoration, addition of color to the character or the background of the character, etc. To do.

Furthermore, in the decorative display device according to the present invention,
The changing means preferably changes the display brightness of the decoration together with at least one of the display position and display time of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different.

Furthermore, in the decorative display device according to the present invention,
The change means may change the decoration of the character and the background of the character or add a frame to the outer edge of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different together with at least one of the display position and display time of the decoration. Preferably it is done.

  As described above, the decoration display device according to the present invention changes at least one of the display position and the display time of each of the plurality of decorations when a plurality of decorations are added to the same position and there are overlapping portions of the decorations. . In addition, the changing means changes the display brightness of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different, or inverts the decoration of the character and the background of the character to add a frame to the outer edge of the decoration.

  As a result, the decoration display device according to the present invention displays the plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other even when a plurality of decorations are added at the same position and there are portions where the decorations overlap. be able to.

Furthermore, in the decorative display device according to the present invention,
The change of the decoration display position by the changing means is preferably a change of the decoration height or the decoration width of the decoration.

  According to the above configuration, when the plurality of decorations are added at the same position and there are overlapping portions in the decoration, the changing means sets the decoration height of the decoration or the decoration width of the decoration, respectively. Change to be different.

  Therefore, the decoration display device according to the present invention can display a plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other depending on the height and width of the decoration, and accordingly, a plurality of decorations are added to the same position. Can be recognized.

  An example of the decoration is decoration that adds a color marker to the background of a character.

  The degree of change of the decoration height or decoration width may be determined as appropriate. For example, when three background colors are overlapped and added to one character and the decoration height is h as a whole, the decoration height is divided equally (h / 3), or h / You may divide into 2, h / 4, and h / 4. The same applies to the decorative width.

Furthermore, in the decorative display device according to the present invention,
The change of the display time of the decoration by the changing means is preferably a change to blinking display of the decoration.

  As described above, the decoration display device according to the present invention changes at least one of the display position and the display time of each of the plurality of decorations when a plurality of decorations are added to the same position and there are overlapping portions of the decorations. . Moreover, the changing means is configured to blink the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different.

  As a result, the decoration display device according to the present invention displays the plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other even when a plurality of decorations are added at the same position and there are portions where the decorations overlap. be able to.

  The blinking display may be performed, for example, by blinking at regular intervals. When two decorations are added at the same position, one decoration is always displayed and the other decoration is blinked at regular intervals. Thereby, a plurality of decorations can be displayed so as to be distinguishable from each other. Note that the blinking display need not be performed at regular intervals, but may be realized by a configuration that is performed at random time intervals.

  The decoration display device may be realized by a computer. In this case, a decoration display program for realizing the decoration display device on a computer by operating the computer as the decoration information synthesizing unit, and A recorded computer-readable recording medium also falls within the scope of the present invention.

  As described above, the decoration display device according to the present invention detects whether or not a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position, and the detection means adds a plurality of decorations to the character at the same position. And changing means for changing at least one of the display position and the display time of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different when it is detected that the decoration is displayed.

  Further, as described above, the decoration display method according to the present invention includes a detection step of detecting whether or not a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position, and a plurality of decorations at the same position in the detection step. And a change step of changing at least one of the display position and the display time of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different when it is detected that the decoration is added.

  Therefore, it is possible to display a plurality of decorations added at the same position in the document so that they can be distinguished from each other.

It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the decoration display apparatus of this invention. It is a figure for demonstrating document information. It is a figure which shows the example of the decoration decorated by the character string in a document. FIG. 4 is a table in which decoration information for realizing the decoration display of FIG. 3 is tabulated. It is a figure which shows the other example of the decoration decorated by the character string in a document. FIG. 6 is a table in which decoration information for realizing the decoration display of FIG. 5 is tabulated. FIG. 3 is a table in which document layout information corresponding to the document information of FIG. 2 is tabulated. FIG. 4 is a table in which document decoration layout information for displaying a plurality of decorations added at the same position in a document so as to be distinguishable from each other is tabulated, and the decoration display in FIG. 3 is used as a model. It is a figure which shows the decoration display implement | achieved by the document decoration layout information table of FIG. It is a figure which shows the other example of a decoration display. FIG. 11 is a table in which document decoration layout information for realizing the decoration display of FIG. 10 is tabulated. FIG. 6 is a table in which document decoration layout information for realizing the decoration display of FIG. 5 is tabulated. It is a figure which shows the decoration display implement | achieved by the document decoration layout information of FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating the example of a display which adds a decoration to the character string of "a poor little girl" to which the blue decoration was added, so that identification is possible, (a) is "a poor little girl" (B) shows a decoration area where the brightness of the decoration area of “poor” is “a poor little girl” (except for poor). It is a figure which shows a mode that it displayed differently. It is a figure which shows the example of a decoration display which changes the attribute of a decoration for every user, (a) is a mode that one user's decoration is displayed with a square, and another user's decoration is displayed with a rounded corner. (B) is a figure which shows a mode that the decoration of one user is displayed by a square, and the decoration (color) of only one user is not added to the decoration of the other user. It is a figure which shows the example of a decoration display which changes the attribute of a decoration for every user, and the decoration of one user is displayed by the specified color, and the decoration of the other user is displayed lighter (with higher transparency) than the specified color. FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of a decoration display which changes the attribute of a decoration for every user, The object area | region is displayed by the designated color for the decoration of one user, and the character of another user's decoration is contained in the said area by the specified color. It is a figure which shows a mode that a column is displayed. It is a figure which shows the example of a decoration display which changes the attribute of a decoration for every user, (a)-(c) is a figure which shows a mode that the decoration of one user is always displayed and the decoration of another user is blinkingly displayed. It is. It is a flowchart for demonstrating that a decoration information layout part produces | generates document decoration layout information. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the display control by a display control part.

  Hereinafter, a decorative display device and a decorative display method according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the following description, the same parts and components are denoted by the same reference numerals. Their names and functions are also the same. Therefore, detailed description thereof will not be repeated.

  In addition, it will be as follows if the decoration display apparatus 1 which concerns on this invention is demonstrated roughly. That is, the decoration display device 1 displays a decoration added to characters in a document and detects whether or not a plurality of decorations are added to characters at the same position (detecting means). ) When 25a and the duplicate decoration detection unit 25a detect that a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position, at least one of the decoration display position and the display time is changed so that each of the plurality of decorations is different. And a decoration information changing unit (changing means) 25c.

  As a result, the decoration display device 1 can display a plurality of decorations added to the same position in the document on the display device 50 so as to be distinguishable from each other, as shown in the example of decoration display in FIG.

  Hereinafter, the decorative display device 1 will be described.

[Configuration of Decoration Display Device 1]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of the decoration display device 1.

  As illustrated in FIG. 1, the decoration display device 1 includes various storage units of a document decoration information storage unit 10 and a layout information storage unit 30, a control unit 20 that performs overall control of each unit of the decoration display device 1, an operation unit 40, The display device 50 is included.

  Of each unit of the decoration display device 1, the document decoration information storage unit 10, the layout information storage unit 30, the operation unit 40, and the display device 50 may be realized by a configuration provided outside the decoration display device 1. .

  Hereinafter, each part will be described. For easy understanding, the control unit 20 will be described last.

  The document decoration information storage unit 10 includes storage units for storing various data used for the decoration display processing of the present invention. That is, the document decoration information storage unit 10 includes a document information storage unit 11 and a decoration information storage unit 12. Each storage unit included in the document decoration information storage unit 10 may include a RAM (Random Access Memory), a ROM (Read Only Memory), an SRAM (Static RAM), a flash memory, and the like, or a combination thereof. However, when information with a large amount of data is stored, it is preferably composed of an HDD (Hard Disk Drive), but the present invention is not limited to this.

  The document information storage unit 11 stores information (hereinafter referred to as document information) related to a document that the decoration display device 1 displays on the display device 50. Here, the document is composed of characters or character strings. Characters refer to characters used in Japanese, English, or other languages, including symbols, special characters, spaces, or punctuation marks. A character string refers to the sequence (or set) of characters. Details of the document information will be described later.

  The decoration information storage unit 12 stores information related to decoration added to the document (hereinafter referred to as decoration information). That is, when the decoration is added to the character or character string in the document, the decoration information storage unit 12 stores decoration information in which the character or character string is associated with the decoration. Details of the decoration information will be described later.

  Here, adding decoration to a document includes adding text decorations such as underline and shadow, adding side points, adding a frame to the outer edge of the decoration, and adding color to the background of the text or the text. Shall be.

  Furthermore, the decoration information can be updated by user input via the operation unit 40, details of which will be described later.

  The layout information storage unit 30 includes storage units for storing various data after the processing in the document layout unit 24 and the document decoration information layout unit 25 is performed. That is, the layout information storage unit 30 includes a document layout information storage unit 31 and a document decoration layout information storage unit 32. Each storage unit included in the layout information storage unit 30 may be configured by a random access memory (RAM), a read only memory (ROM), a static RAM (SRAM), a flash memory, and the like, or a combination thereof. However, when information with a large amount of data is stored, it is preferably composed of an HDD (Hard Disk Drive), but the present invention is not limited to this.

  The document layout information storage unit 31 stores information related to the document laid out by the document layout unit 24 (hereinafter, document layout information). Details of the document layout unit 24 and the document layout information will be described later.

  The document decoration layout information storage unit 32 stores document decoration layout information. Here, the document decoration layout information is information obtained by adding decoration information to the document layout information by the document decoration information layout unit 25. Details of the document decoration information layout unit 25 and the document decoration layout information will be described later.

  The operation unit 40 inputs an instruction signal for instructing the update of the decoration information stored in the decoration information storage unit 12 to the input control unit 23. For example, a remote controller that operates by remote operation or the decoration display device 1 itself. Or a mouse or a keyboard connected to the decorative display device 1.

  The display device 50 includes at least a display control unit 51 and a display unit 52.

  The display control unit 51 outputs various data held by the decoration display device 1 to the display unit 52. Specifically, the display control unit 51 converts the decoration information acquired from the decoration information storage unit 12 into a signal for display on the display unit 52 in a state (selectable state) that can be updated by the user, The converted decoration information is output to the display unit 52.

  For example, it is conceivable that the display control unit 51 outputs a GUI screen in which decoration information can be updated (selectable) to the display unit 52. As a result, a plurality of decoration information is presented to the user in an updatable (selectable) manner, and the user confirms what decoration information is present on the display unit 52, and the desired decoration via the operation unit 40. Information can be output to the input control unit 23.

  In addition, the display control unit 51 converts the document decoration layout information acquired from the document decoration layout information storage unit 32 into a signal for displaying the display unit 52 in a state where the user can visually recognize the document decoration layout information. Is output to the display unit 52. As an example, there is an example of the decoration display of FIG.

  The display unit 52 displays decoration information stored in the decoration information storage unit 12 and decorations such as FIG. 9. For example, the display unit 52 is an LCD (liquid crystal display), a PDP (plasma display panel), or a CRT (cathode- ray tube) It consists of a display device such as a display.

[About the control unit 20]
The control unit 20 can be realized by a CPU (central processing unit) reading a program stored in a storage device such as a ROM (read only memory) (not shown) into a random access memory (RAM) and executing the program. That is, the control unit 20 is realized by the CPU executing a program stored in the storage device and controlling peripheral circuits such as an input / output circuit (not shown).

  The control unit 20 includes a document reading unit 21, a decoration information reading unit 22, an input control unit 23, a document layout unit 24, a document decoration information layout unit 25, and a decoration information update unit 26. . Hereinafter, details of each unit included in the control unit 20 and various information handled by each unit will be described.

[Document Reading Unit 21 and Document Information]
The document reading unit 21 reads the document information stored in the document information storage unit 11 and outputs the document information to the document layout unit 24.

  Here, the document information will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the document information.

  The document information is information relating to a document that the decoration display device 1 displays on the display device 50. For example, information indicating the document “Most terribly... And with naked feet.” Illustrated in FIG. The document is composed of characters or character strings. Characters refer to characters used in Japanese, English, or other languages, including symbols, special characters, spaces, or punctuation marks. A character string refers to the sequence (or set) of characters.

  Therefore, in the case of FIG. 2, the document reading unit 21 reads out the document information indicating the sentence “Most terribly... And with naked feet” stored in the document information storage unit 11, and stores the document information. The data is output to the document layout unit 24.

[About the decoration information reading unit 22 and decoration information]
The decoration information reading unit 22 reads decoration information from the decoration information storage unit 12. As described above, the decoration information is information regarding decoration added to the document read by the document reading unit 21 from the document information storage unit 11, and the character or character string to which the decoration is added and the relevant information. This is information in which decoration is associated.

  The decoration information is also information that can be updated by user input via the operation unit 40. The following method is illustrated as a method for updating the decoration information.

  That is, the display control unit 51 outputs to the display unit 52 a GUI screen that lists the decoration information stored in the decoration information storage unit 12 so as to be updatable (selectable). As a result, a plurality of decoration information is presented to the user in an updatable (selectable) manner, and the user confirms what decoration information is present on the display unit 52, and the desired decoration via the operation unit 40. Information can be selected. Then, the selection result is output to the input control unit 23 as an instruction signal instructing to update the decoration information.

  Thereafter, the instruction signal is input to the decoration information update unit 26 via the input control unit 23. The decoration information update unit 26 updates the instruction signal acquired from the input control unit 23 as the latest decoration information desired by the user, and outputs the updated decoration information to the decoration information storage unit 12. The decoration information storage unit 12 stores the decoration information acquired from the decoration information update unit 26 as decoration information to be output to the decoration information reading unit 22.

  Thus, the decoration information is stored in the decoration information storage unit 12 as updatable information.

  Next, details of the decoration information will be described with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of decoration decorated with a character string in a document. In the second line, “cold” has a yellow mark, “darkness” has a blue mark, Each “cold and darkness” is marked with a green mark. However, in the same figure, green marks added to “cold” and “darkness” are not displayed due to overlapping decorations. Further, for easy viewing of the drawing, it is assumed that vertical hatching is marked with a yellow mark, horizontal hatching with a blue mark, and diagonal hatching with a green mark.

  Next, FIG. 4 will be described. FIG. 4 is a table in which decoration information for realizing the decoration display of FIG. 3 is tabulated (hereinafter, this table is referred to as a decoration information table).

  The decoration information table in FIG. 6 includes items “Index”, “Start”, “End”, “R”, “G”, “B”, and “User ID”.

  Among these, “Index” is a number given to a character or character string to which a group of decorations are added. In FIG. 4, “Index”, “darkness”, “cold” Numbers 1 to 3 are assigned in the order of “and darkness”. In addition, you may change suitably the order which provides a number.

  “Start” and “End” indicate the start position and end position of decoration, respectively, and both represent offset values from the beginning of the document. Specifically, in “Index 1”, “Start” is 117 and “End” is 120. This corresponds to “cold”, which is the 117th to 120th character string in FIG. In “Index 2”, “Start” is 126 and “End” is 133. This corresponds to “darkness” which is the 126th to 133rd character string in FIG. In “Index 3”, “Start” is 117 and “End” is 133. This corresponds to “cold and darkness” which is the 117th to 133rd character string in FIG.

  “R”, “G”, and “B” represent colors of decorations to be added. For example, “Index 1” represents yellow because the R · G component is 255 and the B component is 0. “Index 2” represents a blue color because the G / B component is 255 and the R component is 0. “Index 3” represents green because the R / B component is 0 and the G component is 255.

  “User ID” represents the ID of the user to whom the decoration is added. In FIG. 4, all the decorations of “Index 1” to “Index 3” are added by the same user (ID 12345).

  In FIG. 4, the decoration information is described using the decoration information table. However, the decoration information is not limited to only information configured in a table, and can be expressed in other configurations as long as the configuration includes the various types of information. May be.

  Further, as described above, the decoration information is also updatable information. For example, when the user wants to change the yellow mark added to “cold” to another color, the user can change the numerical values of “R”, “G”, and “B” by inputting via the operation unit 40. Can do. In addition, the start position / end position of the character to which the decoration is added may be changed by updating “Start” and “End” without being limited to the color change.

  Next, an example of other decoration information will be described with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating another example of decorations decorated on character strings in a document. It is assumed that “cold and darkness” and “a poor little girl” described in the second line are each marked with a blue mark.

  Next, the decoration information in FIG. 6 will be described. FIG. 6 is a table in which decoration information for realizing the decoration display of FIG. 5 is tabulated. In addition, about the same content as the description performed with reference to FIG. 4, the description is abbreviate | omitted.

  The decoration information table of FIG. 6 includes items “Index”, “Start”, “End”, “R”, “G”, “B”, and “User ID”.

  In the figure, “User ID” is “12345” in “Index 1”, and “User ID” is “67890” in “Index 2”.

  In FIG. 5, “cold and darkness” and “a poor little girl” are located at remote locations, and there is no overlapping decoration. However, if the values of “Start” and “End” in FIG. 6 are changed, the decorations are displayed on the display device 50 in duplicate.

  As described above, the decoration information has been described with reference to FIGS. However, the decoration information provided to the decoration display device 1 is not limited to that described above, and may be realized in various forms.

[Document Layout Unit 24 and Document Layout Information]
The document layout unit 24 acquires document information from the document reading unit 21 and generates document layout information based on the document information. Then, the document layout information is stored in the document layout information storage unit 31.

  Here, the document layout information will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 7 is a table in which document layout information corresponding to the document information of FIG. 2 is tabulated.

  The document layout information shown in FIG. 4 includes items “Index (Line)”, “Start”, “End”, “Index (Letter)”, and “Code”.

  Among these, “Index (Line)” means “Index (Line) 1” to “Index (Line)” in the first to third lines in the sentence “Most terribly... With with naked feet” in FIG. Line) 3 ”. Therefore, if the character string on the fourth line exists in the sentence shown in FIG. 2, “Index (Line) 4” corresponds to the fourth line.

  “Start” and “End” respectively indicate the start position and end position of the character in each line, and both are represented by an offset value from the beginning of the document. For example, “Index (Line) 1” has “Start” of 1 and “End” of 87. Therefore, it can be seen that the characters included in the first line have an offset value from 1 to 87 from the beginning of the document.

  “Index (Letter)” is a character (including a space) included in an arbitrary line, which is numbered “1, 2, 3,...” Sequentially from the top of the line. FIG. 7 shows an example of “Index (Line) 2”.

  In “Code”, characters (including spaces) are registered as character codes corresponding to “1, 2, 3,...” Of “Index (Letter)”, and in FIG. "E", "v", and "e" are registered corresponding to 1 to 3). This indicates that the first three characters of the second line in the sentence of FIG. 2 are “eve”. Then, “” (space), “c”, “o”, “l”, “d”..., “S”, “” are registered in order corresponding to “Index (Letter)” 29 and later. Has been. This indicates that the 29th and subsequent characters from the top of the second line in the sentence of FIG. 2 are “cold... S” in order.

  Note that in the example of the document layout information in the figure, only “Index (Line) 2” is described, but similarly, “Index (Line) 1” and “Index (Line) 3” are also “Index”. (Letter) "and" Code "are tabulated.

  As described above, the document layout unit 24 acquires the document information from the document reading unit 21, generates the document layout information shown in FIG. 7 based on the document information, and stores the document layout information in the document layout information storage unit 31. I remember it.

  Note that the document layout information described with reference to FIG. 7 is an example, and may be shown in a form shown in another configuration as long as the same function is exhibited.

[Document decoration information layout unit 25 and document decoration layout information]
Next, the document decoration information layout unit 25 will be described.

  Briefly described, the document decoration information layout unit 25 acquires the decoration information from the decoration information reading unit 22 and the document layout information generated by the document layout unit 24 from the document layout information storage unit 31. Then, the document decoration information layout unit 25 generates document decoration layout information based on the decoration information and the document layout information, and stores the document decoration layout information in the document decoration layout information storage unit 32.

  Hereinafter, the document decoration information layout unit 25 will be described in more detail.

  The document decoration information layout unit 25 includes a duplicate decoration detection unit 25a, a decoration information layout unit 25b, and a decoration information change unit 25c.

  The duplicate decoration detection unit 25a detects whether or not a plurality of decorations are added to characters at the same position in the decoration information acquired from the decoration information reading unit 22.

  For example, referring to the example of the decoration information in FIG. 4, the duplicate decoration detection unit 25a acquires the decoration information table from the decoration information reading unit 22, and detects whether or not a plurality of decorations are added to characters at the same position. To do. At this time, “Index 1” corresponds to “cold” that is the 117th to 120th character string, and “Index 2” corresponds to “darkness” that is the 126th to 133rd character string. Further, “Index 3” corresponds to “cold and darkness” which is the 117th to 133rd character string. Therefore, the duplicate decoration detection unit 25a detects that a plurality of decorations are added to the character strings “cold” and “darkness”.

  In addition, the duplicate decoration detection unit 25a outputs information indicating that a plurality of decorations are added to the same position and information indicating a character or a character string to which the plurality of decorations are added to the decoration information changing unit 25c. .

  The decoration information layout unit 25b acquires the document layout information generated by the document layout unit 24 from the document layout information storage unit 31, and writes the decoration information to the document layout information. Hereinafter, information in which decoration information is written in document layout information is referred to as document decoration composition information. Then, the decoration information layout unit 25b outputs the document decoration composition information to the decoration information change unit 25c.

  The decoration information changing unit 25c acquires document decoration composition information from the decoration information layout unit 25b. Further, when the duplicate decoration detection unit 25a detects that a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position, the decoration information change unit 25c adds a plurality of decorations from the duplicate decoration detection unit 25a to the same position. Information indicating that the character has been added, and information indicating a character or character string to which a plurality of decorations are added.

  In addition, the decoration information changing unit 25c changes at least one of the decoration display position and the display time in the document decoration composition information so that the plurality of decorations are different from each other. Then, the decoration information changing unit 25c stores the changed document decoration composition information in the document decoration layout information storage unit 32 as document decoration layout information.

  Next, the document decoration layout information will be described with reference to FIGS. Along with the description, the function of the decoration information changing unit 25c will also be described.

[Document decoration layout information related to decoration height]
First, FIG. 8 will be described. FIG. 8 is a table in which document decoration layout information for displaying a plurality of decorations added at the same position in a document so as to be distinguishable from each other is tabulated (hereinafter, this table is referred to as a document decoration layout information table). 3), the decorative display of FIG. 3 is used as a model. In FIG. 3, “cold” described in the second line is marked with yellow, “darkness” is marked with blue, and “cold and darkness” is marked with green.

  The document decoration layout information of FIG. 8 includes “Index (Letter)”, “Code”, “Highlight [1]”, “User ID [1]”, “Height [1]”, “Highlight [2]”, Items “User ID [2]”, “Height [2]”,... Are provided.

  Among these, “Index (Letter)” and “Code” are document layout information generated by the document layout unit 24. “Highlight [n]” and “User ID [n]” are decoration information written by the decoration information layout unit 25b in the document layout information. Information indicating “Index (Letter)”, “Code”, “Highlight [n]”, and “User ID [n]” becomes document decoration composition information in which decoration information is written in the document layout information.

  Here, “Highlight [n]” represents the color of decoration added to each character. Each color expresses 8 bits of R, G, and B in hexadecimal in order. For example, “0 × 00FF00” represents green because the R component is 0, the G component is 255, and the B component is 0. “0 × FFFF00” represents yellow because the R / G component is 255 and the B component is 0. “0 × 00FFFF” represents a blue color because the G / B component is 255 and the R component is 0.

  In FIG. 8, “Highlight [n]” is described as representing a decoration color added to each character. However, “Highlight [n]” may be other information indicating the type of decoration (marker, underline, etc.).

  “User ID [n]” represents the ID number of the user who added each decoration. In the example of the figure, the users are all “12345” and are the same.

  On the other hand, “Height [n]” is an item representing the height of decoration added to each character, and this item is generated by the decoration information changing unit 25c. The decoration information changing unit 25c acquires the document decoration composition information from the decoration information layout unit 25b, and when the duplicate decoration detection unit 25a detects that a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position, At least one of the display position and display time of the decoration in the composite information is changed so that each of the plurality of decorations is different.

  Specifically, the decoration information changing unit 25c acquires document decoration composition information indicating “Index (Letter)”, “Code”, “Highlight [n]”, and “User ID [n]” from the decoration information layout unit 25b. To do. Moreover, in the example of the same figure, the duplication decoration detection part 25a detects that the some decoration is added to "cold" and "darkness". Accordingly, the decoration information changing unit 25c changes at least one of the decoration display position and the display time in the document decoration composition information so that the plurality of decorations are different from each other.

  Accordingly, in the document decoration layout information table of FIG. 8, the decoration information changing unit 25c generates the item “Height [n]” and also sets the character string “cold and letter” corresponding to 30 to 46 of “Index (Letter)”. The decoration height of “darkness” is changed to “14”, and the character string “cold” corresponding to 30 to 33 of “Index (Letter)” and the character string “corresponding to 39 to 46 of“ Index (Letter) ” The decoration height of “darkness” is changed to “12”.

  Here, in the above description, the decoration height is also changed to “14” for “and” where the decoration does not overlap. In this regard, the decoration information changing unit 25c may change only the decoration height of “cold” and “darkness” where the decoration overlaps to “14”, or “cold and darkness” recognized as a group of character strings. “All decoration heights may be changed to“ 14 ”.

  Note that the decoration height added to a character or character string is usually constant (hereinafter, the normal decoration height is referred to as a reference decoration height). However, when a plurality of decorations are added at the same position in the document, if the plurality of decoration heights are the same, the decorations are superimposed and cannot be distinguished from each other. Accordingly, in the example of FIG. 8, the decoration information changing unit 25c changes the decoration height from the reference decoration height to “14” or “12”.

  FIG. 9 shows a decoration display realized by the document decoration layout information table of FIG. As shown in the figure, even when a plurality of decorations are added to the same position in the document because the decoration information changing unit 25c has changed the decoration height to “14” or “12”, the plurality of decorations are added. Since the decoration heights are different from each other, the decoration display device 1 can display the decorations on the display unit 52 so that they can be distinguished from each other without losing a plurality of decorations added to characters or character strings in the document. . For easy understanding of the drawing, the vertical hatching is marked with a yellow mark, the horizontal hatching with a blue mark, and the diagonal hatching with a green mark.

  As described above, the document decoration information layout unit 25 acquires the decoration information from the decoration information reading unit 22 and also acquires the document layout information generated by the document layout unit 24 from the document layout information storage unit 31. Then, the document decoration information layout unit 25 generates document decoration layout information based on the decoration information and the document layout information, and stores the document decoration layout information in the document decoration layout information storage unit 32.

  Then, the display control unit 51 converts the document decoration layout information acquired from the document decoration layout information storage unit 32 into a signal for display on the display unit 52 in a state that the user can visually recognize the document decoration layout information. Information is output to the display unit 52. As a result, a decorative display as shown in FIG. 9 is realized.

  Here, as described above, the decoration information acquired from the decoration information reading unit 22 by the document decoration information layout unit 25 can be updated according to the user's request by user input via the operation unit 40. Therefore, the document decoration information layout unit 25 can generate document decoration layout information that is in line with the user's intention and flexibly responds to changes in the user's preferences. Therefore, for the decoration height, for example, numerical values such as “15” and “9” can be adopted by user input via the operation unit 40. Further, the user can appropriately change how the decoration height is determined. In the above description, the decoration information changing unit 25c has been described as changing the decoration height to “14” or “12”, but only one decoration height is changed, and the other decoration height is not changed. A configuration (that is, maintaining the reference decoration height) is also possible.

[Document decoration layout information related to color division]
Next, another example of document decoration layout information will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing another example of the decoration display. “Cold” described in the second row is yellow, “darkness” is blue, “cold and darkness” is green. , Respectively. For easy understanding of the drawing, the vertical hatching is marked with a yellow mark, the horizontal hatching with a blue mark, and the diagonal hatching with a green mark. The decoration height is displayed with “cold and darkness” being twice as high as “cold” and “darkness”.

  FIG. 11 is a table in which document decoration layout information for realizing the decoration display of FIG. 10 is tabulated. Note that the description of the same contents as those described with reference to FIG. 8 is omitted.

  In FIG. 11, the decoration information changing unit 25c converts the character string corresponding to 34 to 38 to “Height [1] for the decoration height of the character string“ cold and darkness ”corresponding to 30 to 46 of“ Index (Letter) ”. ] And “12” (hereinafter, “12” is a reference decoration height), and the character strings corresponding to 30 to 33 and 39 to 46 are changed to “Height [2]” and “6”. Further, the decoration information changing unit 25c performs the decoration height of the character string “cold” corresponding to 30 to 33 of “Index (Letter)” and the character string “darkness” corresponding to 39 to 46 of “Index (Letter)”. Both are changed to “Height [2]” and “6”.

  That is, when the duplicate decoration detection unit 25a detects that a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position, the decoration information change unit 25c determines the decoration height of each color at that location as the reference decoration height “ 12 ”is changed to a value (12 ÷ 2 = 6) divided by the number of overlapping colors (2 in FIG. 11). Therefore, when there are three overlapping colors, the decoration height is changed to 4 (12 ÷ 3 = 4).

  Here, in the decoration display example of FIG. 10, the decorations of the overlapping portions are displayed in green on the upper side of the drawing and yellow / blue on the lower side of the drawing. However, the order of display may be arbitrarily determined. In other words, the decoration may be displayed without any regularity, the decoration with the longer character string to be decorated is displayed on the upper side, and the decoration with the shorter character string to be decorated is displayed on the lower side. May be attached. This is the same even when the number of overlapping decorations (the number of colors) is 3, 4, or more.

  In addition, when there are a large number of overlapping portions of decorations, the display color may be a representative color of displayable colors, and the display may be performed using the ratio of the number of decorations classified into each representative color. The contents will be specifically described below.

  When the number of colors increases, the reference decoration height may not be divided by the number of colors. For example, if the height of a character is 12 dots, if the number of overlapping decoration colors is 2, it can be displayed in two colors by being divided into 6 dots in height. If the number of overlapping decoration colors is 4, it can be divided into 3 dots high, and if the number of overlapping decoration colors is 6, it can be divided into 2 dots high. However, when the number of overlapping decoration colors is 13 or more, all decorations cannot be displayed even if the height is one dot at a time.

  In such a case, instead of displaying all the overlapping decorations in different colors, the number of colors is reduced by combining the colors that are close to each other into one color, and the height of each color is displayed in the ratio of the combined number of colors. It is good also as a structure.

  For example, when 16 decorations are attached to a character and displayed using three colors within a height of 12 dots, the decoration colors and their heights are determined by the following procedure.

  First, a hue (hue) is obtained for 16 decorations. The hue can be calculated by converting the RGB color system generally used in computers into a color system such as HSI and HSV. As an example, a conversion formula from RGB to HLS is disclosed in http://image-d.isp.jp/commentary/color_cformula/HLS.html.

  Since the hue is represented by 0 to 360 (the hue is represented by an angle, 0 and 360 represent the same hue), a color close to the hue obtained by equally dividing 360 by the number of colors is set as a representative color. Therefore, when displaying in 3 colors, the decoration closest to each of hues 0, 120, and 240 is selected from the 16 decorations and set as the representative color.

  Then, it is checked which representative color each of the 16 decorations is close to, and the coating height is determined by the ratio of the number. For example, if there are 8 colors close to the representative color 1, 5 colors close to the representative color 2, and 3 colors close to the representative color 3, 12 dots are applied at a ratio of 8: 5: 3. In other words, the representative color 1 is painted at a height of 6 dots, the representative color 2 is painted at 4 dots, and the representative color 3 is painted at a height of 2 dots (fractions are rounded off).

  In this way, instead of displaying all the overlapping decorations in different colors, the number of colors is reduced by combining the colors that are close in color into one color, and the height of each color is displayed in the ratio of the combined number of colors. A configuration can be realized.

[Document decoration layout information with frame added to decoration]
Next, still another example of the document decoration layout information will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 12 is a table in which document decoration layout information for realizing the decoration display of FIG. 13 is tabulated. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a decoration display realized by the document decoration layout information of FIG.

  In FIG. 13, blue decoration is added to “cold and darkness” and “a poor little girl” described in the second row. However, “cold and darkness” is surrounded by a frame, whereas “a poor little girl” is not surrounded by a frame.

  In the figure, the decoration (blue mark) is not added at the same position. However, in the example of the document decoration layout information to be described below, the case where the decoration mark is added at the same position in the document is naturally applicable. In addition, the decoration information changing unit 25c may be configured to change the attribute of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different, triggered by the user who added the decoration being different. Hereinafter, this embodiment will be described. Note that the description of the same contents as those described with reference to FIG. 8 is omitted.

  First, FIG. 12 will be described.

  In the figure, the character string “cold and darkness” corresponding to 30 to 46 of “Index (Letter)” is changed by the user “12345” to the character string “a poor little” corresponding to 76 to 93 of “Index (Letter)”. “girl” has a decoration (0 × 00FFFF) added by the user “67890”.

  Further, in FIG. 12, “Height [n]” in FIG. 8 is replaced with “Attribute”. Note that “Attribute” is an item representing an attribute of decoration added to each character, and this item is generated by the decoration information changing unit 25c.

  In the example shown in the figure, the decoration information changing unit 25c changes “Attribute” to “1” for the character string “cold and darkness” corresponding to 30 to 46 of “Index (Letter)”, and “Index” “Attribute” is changed to “0” for the character string “a poor little girl” corresponding to 76 to 93 of (Letter) ”.

  In other words, the decoration information changing unit 25c changes the attribute of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different, triggered by the user who added the decoration being different. As a result, the decoration added by the user “12345” is surrounded by the frame, and the decoration added by the user “67890” is displayed without being surrounded by the frame (see FIG. 13). In other words, the decoration information changing unit 25c can determine whether or not to add a frame to the outside of the decoration by changing “Attribute” to “1” or “0”. It is displayed so that it can be identified (FIG. 13).

  Here, the above-described configuration for adding a frame to the outer edge of the decoration is preferably performed together with at least one of the display position of the decoration (decoration of decoration height, decoration width, etc.) and the display time (decoration display of decoration, etc.). . As a result, the decoration display device 1 can display the plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other even when a plurality of decorations are added to the same position and there are overlapping portions of the decorations. Because. Such a configuration can be realized by adopting a configuration in which “Height [n]” and “Attribute” are included in the document decoration layout information.

  In FIG. 12, “Highlight [1]” is all set to “0 × 00FFFF”. However, as a matter of course, different color decorations may be added between the user “12345” and the user “67890”.

  Further, by providing “Highlight [n]” (n is an integer of 1 or more) associated with “Attribute” (not shown), the frame color itself can be changed for each user. . As a result, even if the decoration color is the same, by changing the color of the frame, the character or the character or the character or character string in the document can be distinguished from each other without being lost. It can be displayed together with a character string.

  Furthermore, in order to display a plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other, the user does not enclose the decoration frame, but adds the shade of the decoration color to be added, the decoration height / width (area / range) of the decoration to be added, and the addition. It is also assumed that the decoration is desired to be changed by other methods such as the transparency of the decoration to be performed, the inversion of the color of the character or character string and the background, the display time of the decoration, and the blinking of the decoration. In such a case, for example, when “Attribute” is “2”, the decoration display time is changed, and when “Attribute” is “3”, the decoration is blinked. .

  In the above description, “Attribute” is set as a number “0, 1, 2, 3, 4,...”. However, in addition to these numbers, a configuration in which alphabets such as “a, b, c, d,. For example, color shading is defined as “a, b, c, d,...”, “A” is defined as a lighter color length, and “z” is defined as a darker color length. .

  As a result, the decoration information changing unit 25c appropriately changes the number of “Attribute” so that a plurality of decorations added to the characters or character strings in the document can be distinguished from each other without being lost. It can be displayed together with a character string.

  In the above description, the configuration of “Attribute” has been described with various variations. However, the setting of “Attribute” is not limited to “0, 1, 2, 3, 4,...” Or “a, b, c, d,. Good.

[Other document decoration layout information]
Other decoration display examples will be described with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 14 is a diagram for explaining a display example in which a decoration is further added to the character string “a poor little girl” to which a blue decoration is added. Among these, FIG. 14A shows a state where “poor” is further selected as a decoration target from the character string “a poor little girl”, and FIG. 14B shows the decoration of the “poor”. It is a figure which shows a mode that the brightness of the area | region was displayed different from the decoration area | region of "a poor little girl" (except for poor). Note that hatching of “a poor little girl” is omitted for easy viewing of the drawing.

  The decoration display of FIG. 14B is realized by appropriately changing the item corresponding to the brightness of “Attribute” by the decoration information changing unit 25c. That is, even when decorations of the same color are added to the same location, a plurality of decorations can be displayed on the display device 50 so as to be distinguishable from each other by changing the brightness of the decoration added to the overlapping location.

  The configuration for changing the display brightness for each decoration is preferably performed together with at least one of the decoration display position (decoration of decoration height, decoration width, etc.) and the display time (decoration display of decoration, etc.). As a result, the decoration display device 1 can display the plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other even when a plurality of decorations are added to the same position and there are overlapping portions of the decorations. .

  Furthermore, the decoration illustrated in FIGS. 15 to 18 shows an example in which the decoration attribute is changed for each user. Each will be described below. In the following description, “cold and darkness” and “a poor little girl” are assumed to be decorations added by different users. In addition, in the example of the decoration display described below, it should be added that this applies even when the decoration mark is added at the same position in the document.

  FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a decoration display example in which decoration attributes are changed for each user. FIG. 15A is a diagram in which one user's decoration is displayed with squares, and another user's decoration has corners. It is a figure which shows a mode that it displays circularly. FIG. 15B is a diagram illustrating a state in which the decoration of one user is displayed with squares and the decoration (color) of the other user is not added with only a character part. In FIG. 15B, the character string and the background decoration of the character string are also inverted for the character string “a poor little girl”.

  In the decoration display example in FIG. 15A, the decoration information changing unit 25c sets the value of “Attribute” corresponding to the decoration shape to be different for each user. The decoration of other users can be realized so that the corners are rounded. Similarly, the decoration display example of FIG. 15B can be realized by the decoration information changing unit 25c changing the value of “Attribute” corresponding to the decoration target for each user. By displaying in this way, the decoration display device 1 can display a plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other even when a plurality of decorations are added at the same position and there are overlapping portions of the decorations. it can.

  FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating a decoration display example in which decoration attributes are changed for each user. One user's decoration is displayed in a specified color, and other user's decoration is lighter than the specified color (the transparency is increased). It is a figure which shows a mode that it displays.

  FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a decoration display example in which the decoration attribute is changed for each user. One user's decoration is displayed in a specified color, and the other user's decoration is displayed in the specified color. It is a figure which shows a mode that the character string contained in is displayed.

  FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating a decoration display example in which the decoration attribute is changed for each user. FIGS. 18A to 18C show one user's decoration always displayed and the other users' decoration blinking. It is a figure which shows a mode that it is performed.

  The blinking display may be performed, for example, by blinking at regular intervals. When two decorations are added at the same position, one decoration is always displayed and the other decoration is blinked at regular intervals. Thereby, a plurality of decorations can be displayed so as to be distinguishable from each other. Further, the blinking display need not be performed at regular intervals, and may be realized by a configuration that is performed at random time intervals.

  In this way, in the decoration display device 1, the decoration information changing unit 25c changes the numerical value of “Attribute” for each user so that the decoration attribute is changed for each user and the decoration display is performed. The information can be displayed on the display device 50 in an identifiable manner.

  Here, the above-described configuration described with reference to FIGS. 14 to 17 is performed together with at least one of a decoration display position (decoration of decoration height and decoration width, etc.) and a display time (decoration display of decoration, etc.). preferable. As a result, the decoration display device 1 can display the plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other even when a plurality of decorations are added to the same position and there are overlapping portions of the decorations. .

[Flow of generating document decoration layout information by document decoration information layout unit 25]
Next, a generation flow of document decoration layout information by the document decoration information layout unit 25 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 19 is a flowchart for explaining that the document decoration information layout unit 25 generates the document decoration layout information for realizing the decoration display described with reference to FIG. 9 and the like.

  In brief, the document decoration information layout unit 25 acquires the decoration information from the decoration information reading unit 22 and also acquires the document layout information generated by the document layout unit 24 from the document layout information storage unit 31. . The document decoration information layout unit 25 generates document decoration layout information based on the decoration information and the document layout information, and stores the document decoration layout information in the document decoration layout information storage unit 32.

  Hereinafter, among the operations of the document decoration information layout unit 25, a flow of processing in which the document decoration information layout unit 25 generates document decoration layout information will be described.

  First, in S10, the decoration information layout unit 25b starts processing for the first line of the document displayed on the display device 50 in the decoration information acquired from the decoration information reading unit 22.

  Subsequently, in S20, the decoration information layout unit 25b displays information indicating the decoration laid out in the first line (hereinafter referred to as first line decoration information. Further, the decoration laid out in the i line of the document is displayed. It is confirmed whether or not the information to be indicated is referred to as i-th line decoration information) in the decoration information.

  S30 corresponds to the case where the i-th line decoration information (i = 1) does not exist in the decoration information in S20. In this case, the process proceeds to the (i + 1) th line (S30), and the flow returns to S20. At this time, it is handled as i = i + 1. And the confirmation of S20 is repeatedly performed in the i-th line.

  S40 corresponds to the case where the i-th row decoration information exists in the decoration information in S20. In this case, the decoration information layout unit 25b sorts one or more pieces of decoration information included in the i-th line decoration information in the longest order. Taking the document in Figure 3 as an example, the second line contains a yellow mark for "cold", a blue mark for "darkness", and a green mark for "cold and darkness". Has been. Therefore, the decoration information layout unit 25b sorts “cold and darkness”, “darkness”, and “cold” in the long order of the decoration information (more precisely, a character string with decoration added).

  Subsequently, in S50, the decoration information layout unit 25b stores the decoration information in “Line Information” in the order sorted in S40.

  Note that Line Information refers to items other than the items (“Index (Letter)”, “Code”) generated by the document layout unit 24 in the document decoration layout information table of FIG. 8, for example. Therefore, in the case of FIG. 8, Line Information is “Highlight [1]”, “User ID [1]”, “Height [1]”, “Highlight [2]”, “User ID [2]”, “Height”. [2] ”indicates the entire item indicated by.

  More specifically, in the example of FIG. 8, the decoration information layout unit 25b sets “cold” to “Highlight [1]”, “User ID [1]”, and “Height [1]” as the second line decoration information. The decoration information of “and darkness” is stored first. Next, the decoration information layout unit 25b stores decoration information related to “darkness”. At this time, since “Highlight [1]” is already filled with the decoration information related to “cold and darkness”, the decoration information layout unit 25b stores the decoration information related to “darkness” in “Highlight [2]”. . Finally, the decoration information layout unit 25b stores decoration information related to “cold”. At this time, since “Highlight [1]” is already filled with the decoration information related to “cold and darkness”, the decoration information layout unit 25b stores the decoration information related to “cold” in “Highlight [2]”. .

  In this way, the second line decoration information is stored in the Line Information. In FIG. 8, since the first and third line decoration information does not exist, the decoration information layout unit 25b stores only the second line decoration information in the Line Information.

  Next, in S60, the decoration information changing unit 25c acquires the document decoration composition information from the decoration information layout unit 25b, and the duplicate decoration detection unit 25a detects that a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position. In this case, at least one of the decoration display position and display time in the document decoration composition information is changed so that each of the plurality of decorations is different. The change is realized by changing the numerical values of “Attribute” and “Heightlight” of the decoration information. In FIG. 19, the decoration information changing unit 25c is described as changing “Attribute”.

  Finally, in S70, the decoration information layout unit 25b determines whether or not the i-th row is the last row. If it is the last line, the flow ends. If it is not the last line, the process proceeds to S30.

  As described above, the document decoration information layout unit 25 can store all the i-th line decoration information (i = 1 to the last line) in the Line Information. Then, all the i-th row decoration information stored in Line Information is the document decoration layout information. Then, the document decoration information layout unit 25 causes the document decoration layout information storage unit 32 to store the document decoration layout information.

[Display Control Flow by Display Control Unit 51]
Next, a display control flow by the display control unit 51 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 20 is a flowchart for explaining display control by the display control unit 51.

  In brief, the display control unit 51 converts the document decoration layout information acquired from the document decoration layout information storage unit 32 into a signal for display on the display unit 52 in a state that the user can visually recognize the document decoration layout information. Thus, the converted document decoration layout information is output to the display unit 52. Hereinafter, the display control flow by the display control unit 51 will be described in order.

  First, in S110, the display control unit 51 displays the document decoration layout information acquired from the document decoration layout information storage unit 32 in the first display line (i = 1 line) of the document displayed on the display device 50. The document decoration layout information is acquired.

  In step S120, the display control unit 51 acquires document decoration layout information related to the first character (j = 1 character) from the document decoration layout information related to the display first line (i = 1 line).

  Next, in S <b> 130, the display control unit 51 confirms whether or not color information is included in “Highlight (x)” of the document decoration layout information relating to the first character (j = 1st character). If No in S130, the process proceeds to S180, and if Yes, the process proceeds to S140.

  S140 corresponds to the case where color information is included in “Highlight (x)” of the document decoration layout information relating to the first character (j = 1st character) in S130. In this case, the display control unit 51 first checks whether or not the color information is stored in “Highlight (1)”, and if it is stored, the first character (j = 1 character) in the color indicated by the color information. An instruction signal instructing to paint the background of the eye) is sent to the display unit 52.

  Next, in S160, the display control unit 51 confirms whether or not color information is included in “Highlight (2)” of the document decoration layout information relating to the first character (j = 1). If color information is included in “Highlight (2)”, the process proceeds to S170, and the operation of S150 is repeated. This operation is repeated until no color information is included in “Highlight (X)”.

  If the display control unit 51 determines in S160 that color information is not included in “Highlight (X + 1)”, the process proceeds to S180. In S180, the display control unit 51 causes the display unit 52 to display the first character (j = 1st character). At this time, all the colors indicating the color information included in “Highlight (1)” to “Highlight (X)” are displayed on the display unit 52.

  Then, it progresses to S190. In S190, the display control unit 51 determines whether or not the color information is included in “Highlight (x)” of the document decoration layout information related to the J (j = j + 1) -th character in the display first line (i = 1 line). Confirm. If it is included, the process proceeds to S200, further sets j = j + 1, and returns to S130.

  On the other hand, in the case of No in S190, the process proceeds to S210. In S210, the display control unit 51 determines whether or not the i-th row is the last display row. If Yes, the display control unit 51 determines that the processing for all characters / decorations to be displayed has been completed, and ends the operation. On the other hand, if the i-th line is not the last display line in S210, the process proceeds to S220, i = i + 1 is set, and the process returns to S120 and the above processing is repeated.

  As described above, the display control unit 51 can perform display processing up to the last line and display the result on the display unit 52.

  In the above description, the display control unit 51 has been described as performing processing only for color information related to “Highlight (X)”. However, the display control unit 51 performs processing for “Highlight (X)” and simultaneously performs processing for “Height (x)” and “Attribute (x)”.

  Furthermore, the display control unit 51 changes the display method of the decoration in the display device 50 in accordance with the decoration information such as “Height (x)” and “Attribute (x)”. For example, the display control unit 51 changes the display method between FIG. 9 and FIG. 10, and in FIG. 9, the display height is changed for each color. At this time, for a character whose color information is stored in “Highlight (1) to Highlight (n)”, the decorative height H of the character may be defined by the following expression (1).

H = h + a (n−x) (1)
here,
H: Character decoration height h: Character height a: Width at which the lower (or upper) decoration color can be seen when decorations overlap n: Number of Highlight x: Arbitrary range of 1 to n Is an integer.

  Thereby, the display control part 51 can display a some decoration on the display apparatus 50 so that identification is mutually possible (FIG. 9). In addition, the structure which changes the decoration height of a character for every color is especially effective when the sentence is written horizontally.

  On the other hand, the display control unit 51 can also display with the decoration width of the character changed. At this time, for a character whose color information is stored in “Highlight (1) to Highlight (n)”, the decoration width W of the character may be defined by the following expression (2).

W = w + a (nx) ..... Formula (2)
here,
W: Character decoration width w: Character width a: Width at which the lower (or upper) decoration color can be seen when decorations overlap n: Number of Highlight x: Any integer determined within a range of 1 to n And

  Thereby, the display control part 51 can display a some decoration on the display apparatus 50 so that identification is mutually possible. In addition, the structure which changes the decoration width of a character for every color is especially effective when the text is written vertically.

  In FIG. 10, when there are overlapping portions in the decoration, the decoration height of each color of the portion is set by a value obtained by dividing the reference decoration height by the number of overlapping colors. The details are as described with reference to FIG. 10, but if the color information of “Highlight (x)” and “Highlight (x + 1)” is the same, a border is added to the boundary, or , “Highlight (x)” or “Highlight (x + 1)” is increased or decreased in brightness so that the boundary with the other can be visually recognized. This configuration can be realized by determining that the decoration information changing unit c appropriately changes the value of “Attribute” corresponding to the brightness of the color.

  Further, the decoration information changing unit 25c stores the expressions (1) and (2) in advance and generates the expression decoration layout information related to the decoration height or the color number division. You may implement | achieve with the structure which uses Formula (2) suitably.

[Effects of decoration display device 1]
Hereinafter, effects obtained by the decorative display device 1 will be described.

  According to the above configuration, the duplicate decoration detection unit a detects whether or not a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position with respect to the decoration added to the character in the document. Then, when the duplicate decoration detection unit a detects that a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position, the decoration information change unit c determines at least one of the decoration display position and the display time as the plurality of decorations. Change each to be different.

  Therefore, the decoration display device 1 can display a plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other even when a plurality of decorations are added at the same position and there are portions overlapping the decorations. Therefore, the decoration display device 1 can display the plurality of decorations without any loss even when there are overlapping portions in the plurality of decorations added by one or more users.

  As a result, the decorative display device 1 can solve problems that cannot be solved by the prior art.

  Specifically, the decoration display device 1 displays the problem of Patent Document 1, that is, the line type of the underline part as decoration is changed for each user, but the underline part added by the same user is the same line. In this case, the problem that a plurality of decorations cannot be distinguished from each other can be solved. That is, in the decoration display device (decoration display method) according to the present invention, even if the underline is added by the same user, at least one of the display position and the display time is changed so that each decoration is different. (Underline) can be displayed so as to be distinguishable from each other.

  Further, in the case where the decoration display device 1 has a problem such as “spoofing”, that is, when there is an overlapping part in two or more colors (decoration) added by the user, the part is expressed by changing the shade of the color. Therefore, the problem that a plurality of decorations cannot be distinguished from each other can be solved. That is, in the decoration display device (decoration display method) according to the present invention, even when two or more colors are added to the same position, at least one of the display position and the display time is changed to be different from each other. Therefore, the two colors can be displayed so as to be distinguishable from each other.

  The addition of the decoration includes addition of a color to the character or the background of the character, addition of a character decoration such as an underline / shadow, addition of a side point, addition of a frame to the outer edge of the decoration, etc. To do.

  Furthermore, in the decoration display device 1, it is preferable that the decoration information changing unit c changes the display brightness of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different together with at least one of the display position and the display time of the decoration.

  Further, in the decoration display device 1, the decoration information changing unit c, together with at least one of the display position and display time of the decoration, inverts the decoration of the character and the background of the character, or adds a frame to the outer edge of the decoration. Preferably, the plurality of decorations are performed differently.

  As described above, the decoration display device 1 changes at least one of the display position and the display time of each of the plurality of decorations when a plurality of decorations are added to the same position and there are overlapping portions of the decorations. In addition, the decoration information changing unit c changes the display brightness of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different, or inverts the decoration of the character and the background of the character, and adds a frame to the outer edge of the decoration. It is a configuration.

  As a result, the decoration display device 1 can display the plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other even when a plurality of decorations are added to the same position and there are overlapping portions of the decorations. .

  Furthermore, in the decoration display device 1, it is preferable that the decoration display position change by the decoration information changing unit c is a change in the decoration decoration height or decoration decoration width.

  With the above configuration, the decoration information changing unit c adds the decoration height of the decoration or the decoration width of the decoration to each of the plurality of decorations when a plurality of decorations are added at the same position and the decoration overlaps. Change to be different.

  Accordingly, the decoration display device 1 can display a plurality of decorations so as to be distinguishable from each other depending on the height and width of the decoration, thereby allowing the user to recognize that a plurality of decorations are added at the same position. be able to.

  An example of the decoration is decoration that adds a color marker to the background of a character.

  The degree of change of the decoration height or decoration width may be determined as appropriate. For example, when three background colors are overlapped and added to one character and the decoration height is h as a whole, the decoration height is divided equally (h / 3), or h / You may divide into 2, h / 4, and h / 4. The same applies to the decorative width.

  Furthermore, in the decoration display device 1, it is preferable that the change of the decoration display time by the decoration information changing unit c is a change to the decoration blinking display.

  As described above, the decoration display device 1 changes at least one of the display position and the display time of each of the plurality of decorations when a plurality of decorations are added to the same position and there are overlapping portions of the decorations. That is, the decoration information changing unit c is configured to blink the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different.

  As a result, the decoration display device 1 can display the plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other even when a plurality of decorations are added to the same position and there are overlapping portions of the decorations. .

  The blinking display may be performed, for example, by blinking at regular intervals. When two decorations are added at the same position, one decoration is always displayed and the other decoration is blinked at regular intervals. Thereby, a plurality of decorations can be displayed so as to be distinguishable from each other. Further, the blinking display need not be performed at regular intervals, and may be realized by a configuration that is performed at random time intervals.

[Another expression of the present invention]
The present invention can also be expressed as follows.

  A decoration display device 1 according to the present invention is a decoration display device that simultaneously displays a decoration added to a character string in a document by at least one user, and includes a document information reading unit that reads the document, A configuration comprising a decoration information reading unit for reading the wiped decoration information, a document layout unit for laying out the document, a decoration information layout unit for laying out the decoration information on the document, and a display unit for displaying the document and the decoration information It may be.

  Further, the decoration display device 1 according to the present invention may be configured such that the decoration layout unit lays out a plurality of overlapping decorations vertically and horizontally so that a part of each decoration is always displayed.

  Further, in the decoration display device 1 according to the present invention, the decoration layout unit divides a background area of a character on which a plurality of decorations overlap with each other by the number of overlapping, and each color of the decoration that overlaps each of the divided areas. It may be configured to be displayed.

  Further, in the decoration display device 1 according to the present invention, when each of the divided areas is displayed in the overlapping decoration color in the decoration layout unit, the adjacent areas of the same color have a border at the boundary. The structure to attach may be sufficient.

  Further, the decoration display device 1 according to the present invention has a configuration in which, in the decoration layout unit, when the divided areas are displayed in the color of the overlapping decoration, the adjacent areas having the same color change the brightness. May be.

  The decoration display device 1 according to the present invention may be configured such that, in the decoration layout unit, a method of displaying a decoration added by a user who uses the device itself and a decoration added by another user are changed.

[Still another expression of the present invention]
The present invention can also be expressed as follows.

The decorative display device according to the present invention includes:
In a decoration display device capable of displaying a plurality of decorations added to characters or character strings in a document together with the characters or character strings,
The decoration attribute information which is information indicating the decoration attribute and the decoration identification information which is information for displaying the plurality of decorations so as to be distinguishable from each other are combined as the decoration display information in association with the character or the character string. The decoration information synthesizing means may be provided.

In addition, the decoration display method according to the present invention includes:
In a decoration display method capable of displaying a plurality of decorations added to characters or character strings in a document together with the characters or character strings,
The decoration attribute information which is information indicating the decoration attribute and the decoration identification information which is information for displaying the plurality of decorations so as to be distinguishable from each other are combined as the decoration display information in association with the character or the character string. The decoration information composition step may be included.

  According to the above configuration, the decoration information synthesizing means (decoration information synthesizing step) synthesizes the decoration attribute information and the decoration identification information as decoration display information in association with the character or the character string. The decoration identification information is information for displaying a plurality of decorations added to the characters or character strings in the document so that they can be distinguished from each other.

  Therefore, when a plurality of decorations are added to the character or character string and there are overlapping portions, the decoration information combining means (decoration information combining step) displays the plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other. Since the decoration display information is synthesized using the decoration identification information, which is information, the decoration display information includes information for displaying a plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other. In addition, the decoration display information is associated with the character or character string.

  Therefore, the decoration display device (decoration display method) according to the present invention displays a plurality of decorations added to a character or character string together with the character or character string so as to be distinguishable from each other based on the decoration display information. It becomes possible. Therefore, the decoration display device (decoration display method) according to the present invention displays the plurality of decorations without any loss even when the display positions of the decorations added by one or more users overlap. Can do.

  Thereby, the decoration display device (decoration display method) according to the present invention can solve the problems that the prior art cannot solve. Specifically, although the underline portion as additional information is displayed with the line type changed for each user, the underline portion attached by the same user becomes the same line type and a plurality of decorations cannot be distinguished from each other. The problem (Patent Document 1) can be solved. Alternatively, in the decoration display device (decoration display method) according to the present invention, when there are overlapping portions in two or more colors (additional information) added by the user, the portions are expressed by changing the color shade. The problem that the initial color added by the user is neglected (such as “spoiled”) can be solved.

  Note that the above characters refer to characters used in Japanese, English, or other languages, including symbols, special characters, spaces, or punctuation marks. The character string refers to the above-described character sequence (or set).

Furthermore, in the decorative display device according to the present invention,
Based on the decoration display information synthesized by the decoration information synthesizing means, a display control means for displaying the decoration on the display device together with the character or the character string may be provided.

  According to the above configuration, the decorative display device according to the present invention includes the display control means.

  Therefore, the display control means can display a plurality of decorations added to the character or character string together with the character or character string so that they can be distinguished from each other based on the decoration display information.

  And the decoration display apparatus which concerns on this invention also has the following effects by providing the said display control means. Specifically, with the above configuration, a plurality of decorations added to a character or a character string can be displayed on a display device provided inside or outside the decoration display device without imposing the user the trouble of separately preparing display control means. It can be made to be visually recognized by the user together with the character or the character string so that they can be distinguished from each other.

Furthermore, in the decorative display device according to the present invention,
The decoration identification information includes at least the shade of the decoration color, the decoration decoration height, the decoration decoration width, the decoration transparency, the inversion of the color of the character or character string and the background, the decoration decoration It may be configured to include information indicating a frame enclosure, the display time of the decoration, or blinking of the decoration.

  With the above configuration, the decoration display information synthesized by the decoration information synthesizing means includes the color of the decoration, the decoration height of the decoration, the decoration width of the decoration, the transparency of the decoration, the character or the character string And decoration identification information indicating the inversion of the color of the background and the background, the frame of the decoration, the display time of the decoration, or the blinking of the decoration.

  Therefore, the decoration display device according to the present invention, for example, based on the decoration display information including such decoration identification information, for example, one overlapping decoration has a decoration height a, and the other decoration decoration height is the same. By setting the length to b, a plurality of decorations added to a character or character string can be displayed together with the character or character string so that they can be distinguished from each other.

  Furthermore, in the decoration display device according to the present invention, the decoration attribute information may include at least information indicating the user who added the decoration or the type of decoration.

  With the above configuration, the decoration display information combined by the decoration information combining means includes information indicating the user who added the decoration and decoration attribute information indicating the type of decoration (marker, underline, etc.). .

  Therefore, the decoration display device according to the present invention has a flexible display mode such as decoration is changed to a marker or underline, or decoration is changed for each user based on the decoration display information including such decoration attribute information. While being realized, a plurality of decorations added to a character or character string can be displayed together with the character or character string so that they can be distinguished from each other.

Furthermore, in the decorative display device according to the present invention,
The decoration attribute information or the decoration display information may be configured to be updatable by a user input via the operation unit.

  With the above configuration, it is possible to display decorations according to the user's intention, and to flexibly cope with changes in the user's tastes, while allowing a plurality of decorations added to the characters or character strings to be distinguished from each other. It can be displayed together with a character string.

  The decoration display device may be realized by a computer. In this case, a decoration display program for realizing the decoration display device on a computer by operating the computer as the decoration information synthesizing unit, and A recorded computer-readable recording medium also falls within the scope of the present invention.

  Hereinafter, effects obtained by the decorative display device 1 will be described.

  According to the above configuration, the document decoration information layout unit 25 associates decoration attribute information (such as “Highlight”) and decoration identification information (such as “Height” and “Attribute”) with a character or a character string (“Code ”To generate (synthesize) document decoration layout information. The decoration identification information is information for displaying a plurality of decorations added to the characters or character strings in the document so that they can be distinguished from each other.

  Therefore, when a plurality of decorations are added to a character or a character string and there is a portion overlapping the decoration, the document decoration information layout unit 25 is a decoration identification which is information for displaying the plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other. Since the document decoration layout information is synthesized using the information, the document decoration layout information includes information for displaying a plurality of decorations so that they can be distinguished from each other. In addition, the document decoration layout information is associated with the character or character string.

  Therefore, the decoration display device 1 can display a plurality of decorations added to a character or a character string together with the character or the character string so that they can be distinguished from each other based on the document decoration layout information. Therefore, the decoration display device 1 can display the plurality of decorations without any loss even when the display positions of the plurality of decorations added by one or more users overlap.

  Thereby, the decoration display device 1 can solve the problem that the conventional technology cannot solve. Specifically, although the underline portion as additional information is displayed with the line type changed for each user, the underline portion attached by the same user becomes the same line type and a plurality of decorations cannot be distinguished from each other. The problem (Patent Document 1) can be solved. Alternatively, in the case where there are overlapping portions in two or more colors (additional information) added by the user, the decoration display device 1 is expressed by changing the shade of the color, and the original color added by the user Can solve the problem of “ignoring” (such as “spoiled”). Furthermore, a plurality of decorations added to a character or a character string can be displayed together with the character or the character string so as to be distinguishable from each other without destroying the layout of the document while maintaining the decoration added by each user.

  Note that the above characters refer to characters used in Japanese, English, or other languages, including symbols, special characters, spaces, or punctuation marks. The character string refers to the above-described character sequence (or set).

  Furthermore, the decorative display device 1 may include a display control unit 51. Accordingly, the display control unit 51 can display a plurality of decorations added to a character or character string together with the character or character string so as to be distinguishable from each other based on the document decoration layout information.

  And the decoration display apparatus 1 also has the following effects by providing the display control part 51. FIG. Specifically, a plurality of decorations added to a character or a character string are mutually displayed on the display device 50 provided inside or outside the decoration display device 1 without imposing the user to prepare the display control unit 51 separately. The user can visually recognize the character or the character string together with the character or character string.

  Further, in the decoration display device 1, the decoration identification information (“Attribute”) includes at least the color of the decoration, the decoration height of the decoration, the decoration width of the decoration, the transparency of the decoration, the character or character string, and the background. Information indicating color reversal, decoration frame, decoration display time, or decoration blinking may be included.

  As a result, the document decoration layout information synthesized by the document decoration information layout unit 25 includes decoration color shade, decoration decoration height, decoration decoration width, decoration transparency, character or character string and background color. The decoration identification information indicating the inversion of the frame, the frame of the decoration, the display time of the decoration, or the blinking of the decoration is included.

  Therefore, the decoration display device 1 uses, for example, one of the overlapping decorations as a decoration height based on the document decoration layout information including such decoration identification information, and sets the decoration height of the other decoration as a duplicate. By setting b, a plurality of decorations added to a character or character string can be displayed together with the character or character string so that they can be distinguished from each other.

  Further, in the decoration display device 1, the decoration attribute information may include at least information indicating the user who added the decoration or the type of decoration.

  Thus, the document decoration layout information synthesized by the document decoration information layout unit 25 includes information indicating the user who added the decoration and decoration attribute information indicating the type of decoration (marker, underline, etc.).

  Therefore, the decoration display device 1 realizes a flexible display mode such as making the decoration a marker or underline or changing the decoration for each user based on the document decoration layout information including such decoration attribute information. In addition, a plurality of decorations added to the character or character string can be displayed together with the character or character string so that they can be distinguished from each other.

  Furthermore, in the decoration display device 1, the decoration attribute information or the document decoration layout information may be updated by a user input via the operation unit 40.

  As a result, it is possible to display decorations according to the user's intentions, and to flexibly cope with changes in user's preferences, while allowing a plurality of decorations added to the characters or character strings to be distinguished from each other. It can be displayed together with the column.

[Supplement]
Finally, each block of the decoration display device 1, particularly the control unit 20 of the decoration display device 1 (document reading unit 21, decoration information reading unit 22, input control unit 23, document layout unit 24, document decoration information layout unit 25, decoration The information updating unit 26) may be configured by hardware logic, or may be realized by software using a CPU as follows.

  That is, the decoration display device 1 includes a CPU (central processing unit) that executes instructions of a control program that realizes each function, a ROM (read only memory) that stores the program, and a RAM (random access memory) that expands the program. And a storage device (recording medium) such as a memory for storing the program and various data. An object of the present invention is a recording medium in which a program code (execution format program, intermediate code program, source program) of a control program of the decoration display device 1 which is software for realizing the above-described functions is recorded so as to be readable by a computer. This can also be achieved by supplying the decoration display device 1 and reading and executing the program code recorded on the recording medium by the computer (or CPU or MPU).

  Examples of the recording medium include a tape system such as a magnetic tape and a cassette tape, a magnetic disk such as a floppy (registered trademark) disk / hard disk, and a compact disk-ROM / MO / MD / digital video disk / compact disk-R. A disk system including an optical disk, a card system such as an IC card (including a memory card) / optical card, or a semiconductor memory system such as a mask ROM / EPROM / EEPROM / flash ROM can be used.

  The decoration display device 1 may be configured to be connectable to a communication network, and the program code may be supplied via the communication network. The communication network is not particularly limited. For example, the Internet, intranet, extranet, LAN, ISDN, VAN, CATV communication network, virtual private network, telephone line network, mobile communication network, satellite communication. A net or the like is available. Further, the transmission medium constituting the communication network is not particularly limited. For example, even in the case of wired such as IEEE 1394, USB, power line carrier, cable TV line, telephone line, ADSL line, etc., infrared rays such as IrDA and remote control, Bluetooth ( (Registered trademark), 802.11 wireless, HDR, mobile phone network, satellite line, terrestrial digital network, and the like can also be used. The present invention can also be realized in the form of a computer data signal embedded in a carrier wave in which the program code is embodied by electronic transmission.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope shown in the claims. That is, embodiments obtained by combining technical means appropriately modified within the scope of the claims are also included in the technical scope of the present invention.

  The present invention is applied to a decoration display device capable of displaying a plurality of decorations added to characters or character strings in a document together with the characters or character strings so that they can be distinguished from each other. The present invention can be widely applied to precision instruments, display devices, and the like equipped with the device.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Decoration display apparatus 10 Document decoration information storage part 11 Document information storage part 12 Decoration information storage part 20 Control part 21 Document reading part 22 Decoration information reading part 23 Input control part 24 Document layout part 25 Document decoration information layout part 25a Duplicate decoration detection (Detection means)
25b Decoration information layout part 25c Decoration information change part (change means)
26 decoration information update unit 30 layout information storage unit 31 document layout information storage unit 32 document decoration layout information storage unit 40 operation unit 50 display device 51 display control unit 52 display unit

Claims (8)

A decoration display device for displaying decorations added to characters in a document,
Detecting means for detecting whether or not a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position;
Changing means for changing at least one of the display position and display time of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different when the detection means detects that a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position; A decorative display device comprising:   The decoration display device according to claim 1, wherein the changing means changes the display brightness of the decoration together with at least one of the display position and the display time of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different.   The change means may change the decoration of the character and the background of the character or add a frame to the outer edge of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different together with at least one of the display position and display time of the decoration. The decoration display device according to claim 1, wherein the decoration display device is performed.   The decoration display device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the change of the decoration display position by the changing means is a change of a decoration height or a decoration width of the decoration.   The decoration display device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the change of the display time of the decoration by the changing means is a change to a blinking display of decoration. A decoration display method for displaying decorations added to characters in a document,
A detection step for detecting whether or not a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position;
A change step of changing at least one of the display position and display time of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different when it is detected that a plurality of decorations are added at the same position in the detection step; The decoration display method characterized by including. A decoration display program for displaying decorations added to characters in a document,
A detection step for detecting whether or not a plurality of decorations are added to the character at the same position;
A change step of changing at least one of the display position and display time of the decoration so that each of the plurality of decorations is different when it is detected that a plurality of decorations are added at the same position in the detection step; Decoration display program to make a computer execute.   The computer-readable recording medium which recorded the decoration display program of Claim 7.

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