JP2011209920A - Input support apparatus, input support method, program and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an input support apparatus that can save a time and labor of a user at the input operation of the user during a schedule input, an input support method, a program and a recording medium.SOLUTION: The input support apparatus includes a storage means for storing scheduled event names and dates by making associated with one another, a similarity determination means for determining similarity between the event names stored in the storage means, a periodicity calculation means for calculating periodicity from the dates for event names determined to be similar in the similarity determination, a candidate determination means for designating an event name predicted to occur as an event name candidate if a date specified by a user for new schedule input is a date on which the next holding is predicted according to the periodicity, and a display means for displaying the event name designated as a candidate by the candidate determination means.

Description

  The present invention relates to an input support apparatus, an input support method, a program, and a recording medium, and more particularly, to an input support apparatus, an input support method, a program, and a recording medium that can save the user's input operation during schedule input.

  In recent years, software that performs schedule management, such as Outlook (Microsoft in the United States), is known. With a schedule calendar or the like, it is possible to input a schedule with a fixed cycle such as monthly or weekly at a time.

  On the other hand, automatic recording of digital broadcast programs has been proposed in terms of processing based on a fixed cycle (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2). Even if the continuity of a continuous program broadcasted at a fixed time every week or every month is somewhat disrupted, the purpose is to specify the next continuous program and execute a recording reservation.

JP 2008-271111 A JP 2009-44322 A

  However, the above techniques have the following problems.

  In schedule management, a schedule that is repeatedly executed at almost the same period, although not a fixed period, must be input each time, and is troublesome.

  In the automatic recording described in Patent Documents 1 and 2, even when the continuity is somewhat disrupted, the next continuous program is identified and the recording reservation is executed. Specifically, a future schedule is stored in advance as an EPG (electronic program guide), and the next continuous program is identified from the schedule and a recording reservation is executed.

  However, in the case of schedule input, the future schedule is not determined in advance as in the electronic program guide, and is unknown, so it must be input each time.

  The present invention has been made in view of such a situation, and an object of the present invention is to save the user's input operation during schedule input.

  The input support apparatus according to the present invention includes a storage unit that associates and stores an event name of a schedule and a date, a similarity determination unit that determines a similarity of each event name stored in the storage unit, The periodicity calculating means for calculating the periodicity from the dates of the event names determined to be similar in the similarity determination, and the date designated by the user for inputting a new schedule are held next time based on the periodicity. In the case of a predicted date, a candidate determining unit that determines an event name that is predicted to be held as a candidate for the event name, and a display unit that displays the event name determined as a candidate by the candidate determining unit. It is characterized by.

  The input support method according to the present invention includes a step of storing an event name of a schedule in association with a date, a step of determining the similarity of each event name stored in the storing step, and the similarity The step of calculating the periodicity from each event date determined to be similar in the determining step and the date designated by the user for inputting a new schedule are predicted to be held next time based on the periodicity. In the case of a date, the method includes a step of determining an event name predicted to be held as a candidate for an event name, and a step of displaying an event name determined as a candidate by the step of determining the event name as a candidate. Features.

  The input support program according to the present invention includes a process of associating and storing a schedule event name and an event date, a process of determining the similarity of each event name stored in the storing step, and the similarity. A process for calculating periodicity from each event date determined to be similar in the determining step and a date designated by the user for inputting a new schedule are predicted to be held next time based on the periodicity. In the case of a date, a process for determining an event name predicted to be held as a candidate for the event name and a process for displaying the event name determined as a candidate by the step of determining the event name as a candidate are executed on the computer. It is characterized by making it.

  The recording medium according to the present invention is a computer-readable recording medium for recording the processing of the input support program according to the present invention.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to save time and effort of a user's input operation when inputting a schedule.

It is a block block diagram of the input assistance apparatus 100 which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the grouping operation | movement process of the input assistance apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement process of the input assistance apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a table | surface which shows an example of the periodicity calculation which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a table | surface which shows an example of the periodicity calculation which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the event name candidate which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. The embodiments described below are preferred embodiments of the present invention, and thus various technically preferable limitations are given. However, the scope of the present invention is particularly limited in the following description. As long as there is no description of the effect, it is not restricted to these aspects.

(Constitution)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an input support apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The input unit 1, the display unit 2, the memory 3 (storage unit), the similarity determination unit 4, the periodicity calculation unit 5, and the candidate determination unit 6 are configured.

  The display unit 2 is a display that displays a schedule such as a schedule calendar.

  The user inputs a scheduled event from the input unit 1. Normally, when a desired date in the calendar displayed on the display unit 2 is specified with a mouse (pointing device), a form for inputting a scheduled event (event name) is displayed, and a scheduled event is input using a keyboard or the like. To do.

  The memory 3 stores the inputted scheduled event (event name) and the date and time of the event (the event date, the event time, the end time, the event day, etc.) in association with each other.

  The similarity determination unit 4 determines the similarity of each event name stored in the memory 3. The determination of the similarity of event names is not particularly limited in the present embodiment, since various determinations such as determination with the number of matching characters can be considered.

  The periodicity calculation unit 5 calculates the approximate repeatability (periodicity) of events with similar event names. As a result, events that occur almost regularly can be grouped. For example, there is a name “sales meeting” that is repeatedly input on the same day of the week at intervals of about 3 to 5 weeks, and a name “internal meeting” that is repeatedly input at intervals of 5 to 9 days. If so, group each one.

  The candidate determination unit 6 is likely to be held at the timing from the event group that occurs almost regularly based on the date designated by the user to input a new scheduled event (the input is predicted). Determine the event name candidates. For example, if the specified date applies to the period of “business meeting” and the period of “internal meeting”, both “sales meeting” and “internal meeting” are listed as candidate event names. In this case, in the case of a name such as “Nth business meeting”, a name obtained by adding 1 to the number of times held last time may be cited as a candidate.

  The event name candidates are listed on, for example, a scheduled event input form (input field) displayed on the display unit 2. The user can arbitrarily specify from the candidates. With such input support, it is possible to reduce the operation burden on the user's schedule input.

(Operation processing)
Next, an outline of operation processing of the input support apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described.

  First, periodic grouping will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing grouping operation processing of the input support apparatus according to the present embodiment. The similarity of the name of the inputted scheduled event is determined (step S1). Similar scheduled events are grouped (step S2), and the periodicity of the date of the event is calculated (step S3).

  Next, input support will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation process of the input support apparatus according to the present embodiment. A user inputs a date on which a scheduled event is to be input (step S5). The date may be input by clicking a desired date on the calendar displayed on the display unit 2 with a mouse.

  Based on the periodicity calculated in step S3, an event name predicted to be held on the input date is determined (step S6). An event name predicted to be held is presented as an input candidate on the display unit 2 (step S7).

<Judgment of periodicity>
Processing for determining the periodicity of the date of the event (the date on which the schedule is input) between similar event names will be described in detail.

  If the repetitive pattern is a fixed period such as every Monday, the prediction is easy. This embodiment is characterized by grasping an input of a scheduled event that is repeated almost regularly.

  An example is shown in the table of FIG. FIG. 4 is a table showing an example in which a repeating pattern is determined by the date of the event within a group of similar event names, and the period of each event date is calculated. In the example shown in FIG. 4, the period of each holding day is 15, 19, 16, 13, and 17, and it can be said that the variation is large. The average for each period is 16 and the standard deviation is about 2.23. The standard deviation is a measure of how far the statistical target value is distributed from the average. Since the standard deviation of the example using FIG. 5 described later is about 0.83, it can be said that the example shown in FIG.

  Further, the periodicity calculation unit 5 can also calculate a confidence interval of periodicity from the average value and the standard deviation value. In this embodiment, as an example, a 70% confidence interval (average−standard deviation / average + standard deviation) and a 95% confidence interval (average−standard deviation * 2 / average + standard deviation * 2) are calculated. The 70% confidence interval means that “70% of the sampling data should fall within this interval.” If it is within the 70% confidence interval, the accuracy of periodicity calculation is greater than the 95% confidence interval. Will be higher. In the example shown in FIG. 4, the 70% confidence interval is approximately 13-18 days, and the 95% confidence interval is approximately 11-20 days. That is, for example, it is indicated that a business meeting is more likely to appear 13 days after the previous event than 12 days later.

  FIG. 5 is a table showing another example of calculating periodicity. In the example shown in FIG. 5, the period of each holding day is 11, 12, 12, 11, 13, the average of each period is 11.8, the standard deviation is about 0.83, and the variation is small. I can say that.

  In the example shown in FIG. 5, the 70% confidence interval is approximately 10-12 days, and the 95% confidence interval is approximately 10-13 days.

  As described above, the periodicity calculation unit 5 may calculate the confidence interval in consideration of at least the average value and the distribution from the average. These can be considered when determining the priority when a plurality of event name candidates are listed in the candidate determination described below.

<Determination of event name candidates>
Processing for determining an event name having periodicity corresponding to a specified date as a candidate will be described in detail.

  When the date specified by the user corresponds to the periodicity of each group, it is determined as a candidate as an event that is predicted to be held. For example, if the designated date is the 18th day from the date when the previous “Nth business meeting” was input, “Nth business meeting” is listed as a candidate.

  At the same time, if it is the 13th day from the date when the “regional block meeting” was input last time, the “regional block meeting” is also listed as a candidate.

  As described above, a plurality of candidates for the presentation of event names for input support may be cited. However, if all candidates are presented, the number of candidates increases, and it may be difficult for the user to use them. Therefore, event name candidates may be determined by controlling as follows.

  For example, only the top five candidates are presented. That is, by assigning priorities to the event name candidates, more reliable candidates can be presented to the user.

  For example, the priority order may be determined from the above-described confidence interval. If the date specified by the user corresponds to the period (18th day) of the “Nth business meeting” and the period of the “regional block meeting” (day 13), the priority order from the confidence interval As a result, the 18th day of the “Nth Business Meeting” belongs to the 70% confidence interval, and the 13th day of the “Regional Block Meeting” belongs to the 95% confidence interval. N times business meeting ”. In this case, as shown in FIG. 6A, the “Nth business meeting” is displayed at the top, and the user can specify any event name candidate as shown in FIG. 6B. If the desired schedule does not appear among the candidates, the user may input an arbitrary event name in the “schedule input form” as shown in FIG.

  It is also possible to change a candidate once presented in response to the user's event name input. For example, a candidate for an event name including an input character is preferentially presented.

  In the above embodiment, only the date of the event is used as a reference. However, when a plurality of candidates are listed, the priority order of event name candidates may be determined in consideration of the event time and the like. For example, when the user designates a date and time, an event name having a periodicity on that day and frequently held at that time may be presented as a candidate with high priority.

  Furthermore, when the user specifies an event name from the presented candidates, in addition to automatically inputting the specified event name, the time and place where the event is held may be automatically input (prediction) Input means). In this case, in addition to the periodicity of the date of the event, it is necessary to calculate the event time and the periodicity of the event location in advance.

  Note that the program for the CPU to execute the processing shown in the flowcharts of the drawings constitutes a program according to the present invention. As a recording medium for recording the program, a semiconductor storage unit, an optical and / or magnetic storage unit, or the like can be used. By using such a program and a recording medium in a system having a configuration different from that of each of the above-described embodiments and causing the CPU to execute the program, substantially the same effect as the present invention can be obtained.

  Although the present invention has been specifically described above based on the preferred embodiments, it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the above-described ones and can be variously modified without departing from the gist thereof.

1 Input unit 2 Display unit 3 Memory (storage unit)
4 similarity determination unit 5 periodicity calculation unit 6 candidate determination unit 100 input support device

Claims (7)

Storage means for storing the event name of the schedule and the date of the event in association with each other;
Similarity determination means for determining the similarity of each event name stored in the storage means;
Periodicity calculating means for calculating periodicity from each date of the event name determined to be similar in the similarity determination;
If the date designated by the user for inputting a new schedule is a date on which the next event is predicted based on the periodicity, candidate determination means for determining the event name predicted to be held as a candidate event name; ,
Display means for displaying event names determined as candidates by the candidate determination means;
An input support apparatus comprising:   The candidate determination means determines a plurality of event names as candidates when there are a plurality of event names corresponding to a date on which the designated date is predicted to be held next time. Input support device. The periodicity calculating means calculates a probability of periodicity,
The input support apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the candidate determination unit determines a priority order based on the probability when a plurality of event names are determined as candidates. The storage means stores event information including at least an event time or event location in association with an event name,
When the candidate determining unit determines a plurality of event names as candidates, it determines an event name that is frequently held at a time designated by the user for inputting a new schedule as a candidate having a high priority. The input support apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, characterized by the above. Storing the event name of the schedule and the date associated with the event;
Determining the similarity of each event name stored in the storing step;
Calculating periodicity from the dates of the event names determined to be similar in the step of determining the similarity;
When the date designated by the user for a new schedule input is a date on which the next event is predicted based on the periodicity, a step of determining the event name that is expected to be held as a candidate event name;
Displaying the event name determined as a candidate by the step of determining the event name as a candidate;
An input support method comprising: A process of storing the event name of the schedule in association with the date,
Processing for determining the similarity of each event name stored in the storing step;
A process of calculating periodicity from each date of the event name determined to be similar in the step of determining the similarity,
When the date designated by the user for a new schedule input is a date on which the next event is predicted based on the periodicity, a process of determining the event name that is expected to be held as a candidate event name;
Processing for displaying event names determined as candidates by the step of determining the event name as candidates;
An input support program for causing a computer to execute.   A computer-readable recording medium for recording the processing of the input support program according to claim 6.

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