JP2011215863A - Terminal, system and method for displaying information, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a terminal, system and method, along with a program, capable of imparting a sufficient time for acquiring contents of information about each information displayed on the terminal, and also capable of providing information as much as possible.SOLUTION: The terminal 3 includes: an information receiving unit 31 for receiving information distributed from a server 2; and an information display unit 33 adding new information to the information and displaying the information while scrolling the information in order of the reception according to the reception. The terminal further includes: a display guarantee time database 42 previously storing a display guarantee time corresponding to a representation state of the information; and a display information scroll part 32 scrolling the information displayed on the information display unit 33. Even when the information receiving unit 31 further receives information until the display guarantee time lapses after starting the display of the information, the display information scroll part 32 does not scroll the information until the display guarantee time lapses, scrolls the information after the display guarantee time lapses, and then adds and displays the received information.

Description

  The present invention relates to a terminal, a system, a method, and a program for displaying information.

  In recent years, services such as TWITTER (registered trademark) have rapidly spread (for example, see Non-Patent Document 1). TWITTER simply receives a tweeted text string of a user's tweets via a communication network and stores them so that they can be viewed by the public. ), Another user can quote a user's tweet and retweet it (retweet), or add a comment to a given user's tweet and post it (quote tweet) it can. In this way, the development of responses in various forms can give a feeling as if many people are talking.

  Another attractive feature of TWITTER is its high speed. For example, when an earthquake occurs somewhere, tweets “Earthquake!” Are posted one after another, and follow, retweets, quote tweets are performed one after another. As a result, information about the occurrence of an earthquake may be provided earlier than television news or Internet news sites.

Twitter full use technique, Japan, ASCII Media Works, February 26, 2010, 8-9 pages

  However, in the existing technology, information distributed from the server is sequentially displayed in the order of distribution. For this reason, when a plurality of pieces of information are distributed in a short time, there is a possibility of switching to the next information without sufficiently confirming the currently displayed information.

  The present invention provides a terminal, a system, a method, and a program capable of providing sufficient time for grasping the content of the information displayed on the terminal and providing as much information as possible. The purpose is to do.

  The present invention provides the following solutions.

  (1) A terminal comprising information receiving means for receiving information distributed from a server, and information display means for adding and displaying new information while scrolling the information in the order of reception in response to the reception. The display guarantee time storage means for storing the display guarantee time according to the expression mode of the information in advance, and the display information scroll means for scrolling the information displayed by the information display means, the display information scroll means In the case where the information receiving means further receives the information after the display guarantee time elapses after the display of the information is started, the information is not scrolled until the display guarantee time elapses, A terminal that scrolls the information after the guaranteed display time elapses and displays the information received next.

According to the invention described in (1), the display guarantee time storage unit stores the display guarantee time according to the expression mode of the information distributed from the server in advance, and scrolls the information displayed by the information display unit. The information scroll means does not scroll the information until the guaranteed display time elapses, even if the information is received during the display guaranteed time elapses after the display of the information starts. After the guarantee time has elapsed, the information is scrolled and the next received information is added and displayed. Thereby, sufficient time for grasping | ascertaining the content of the information about each of the information which an information display means displays with respect to a user can be given.
In addition, the display guarantee time storage means stores the display guarantee time according to the expression form of the information distributed from the server, not the uniform display guarantee time. Scrolls to the next information in a short time despite the fact that the information is not scrolled for a long time despite the fact that the information is related to the Can be prevented. This can reduce wasted time and provide as much information as possible.
As described above, according to the invention described in (1), it is possible to give sufficient time for grasping the contents of each piece of information displayed by the information display means and to provide as much information as possible. Can be provided.

  (2) A system comprising a server for distributing information and a terminal for displaying information distributed from the server, wherein the terminal receives information distributed from the server; Information display means for adding and displaying new information while scrolling the information according to the order of reception, display guarantee time storage means for storing a display guarantee time according to the expression mode of the information, and Display information scrolling means for scrolling information displayed by the information display means, the display information scrolling means from the start of the display of information until a display guarantee time according to the information elapses When the information receiving means further receives information, the information is not scrolled until the guaranteed display time elapses, and the guaranteed display time elapses. System to be displayed to add the following information received to scroll through the serial information.

  (3) A method for displaying information distributed from a server on a terminal, wherein the terminal receives information distributed from the server, and the information is received in the order of reception in response to the reception. An information display process for adding and displaying new information while scrolling, and further displaying information from the server between the start of displaying the information and the display guarantee time according to the expression mode of the information. When received, the information is not scrolled until the guaranteed display time elapses, and after the guaranteed display time elapses, the information is scrolled and the next received information is added and displayed. Including the steps.

  (4) A program for displaying information distributed from a server on a terminal, an information receiving step for receiving information distributed from the server, and scrolling the information in the order of reception in response to the reception In addition, the information display process for adding and displaying new information and the display of the information, and further receiving information from the server after the display guarantee time according to the expression mode of the information has elapsed A display information scrolling step of scrolling the information after the guaranteed display time has elapsed and adding the next received information for display until the guaranteed display time has elapsed, For causing the terminal to execute.

  According to the system described in (2), the same effect as in (1) can be expected by implementing the invention relating to the system. According to the method described in (3), the same effect as in (1) can be expected by implementing the invention according to the method. According to the program described in (4), the same effect as in (1) can be expected by implementing the invention relating to the program.

  According to the present invention, for each piece of information displayed on a terminal, a terminal, system, method, and program capable of providing sufficient time for grasping the content of the information and providing as much information as possible Can provide.

It is a figure showing the whole composition for explaining system 1 concerning a 1st embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the reception information database 41 which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the display guarantee time database 42 which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart of the terminal 3 which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the relationship between the time and display content when the terminal 3 receives information according to the example of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the screen 50 of the terminal 3, when the terminal 3 receives information according to the example of FIG. It is a figure which shows the whole structure for demonstrating the system 1 which concerns on 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display priority order database 143 which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the reception information database 141 which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a flowchart of the terminal 103 which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a relationship between time and display content when the terminal 3 receives information according to the example of FIG. 9 and does not perform a reduction operation. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a relationship between time and display content when the terminal 3 receives information according to the example of FIG. 9 and performs a reduction operation at a predetermined timing. It is a figure which shows the whole structure for demonstrating the system 1 which concerns on 3rd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display priority order database 243 which concerns on 3rd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the reception information database 241 which concerns on 3rd Embodiment. It is a flowchart of the terminal 3 which concerns on 3rd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the relationship between the time when the terminal 3 receives information according to the example of FIG. 15, and display content.

[First Embodiment]
Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[overall structure]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration for explaining a system 1 and a terminal 3 according to the first embodiment. The system 1 includes a server 2 that distributes information, and a terminal 3 that is connected to the server 2 via a network and displays the information distributed from the server 2 in the order received. The type of the terminal 3 may be any type, may be a personal computer, or may be a portable terminal. Also, it may be a digital signage installed in a store or transportation station or in a car.

  First, the configuration of the server 2 will be described. The server 2 includes a control unit 10. The control unit 10 is a part that comprehensively controls each function related to the server 2, and includes an information distribution unit 11 that distributes information to the terminal 3. The information distribution unit 11 functions as an information distribution unit.

  Next, the configuration of the terminal 3 will be described. The terminal 3 includes a control unit 30 and a storage unit 40. The control unit 30 includes an information reception unit 31 that receives information distributed from the information distribution unit 11. The storage unit 20 includes a reception information database 41 that stores information received by the information reception unit 31. The information receiving unit 31 and the received information database 41 function as information receiving means.

  The reception information database 41 is a database that stores information received by the information reception unit 31, and is exemplified in FIG. The reception information database 41 includes a “reception time” field indicating the time when the information is received, a “expression mode” field indicating the expression mode of the received information, and a “content” field indicating the content of the received information.

  Returning to FIG. 1, the control unit 30 includes a display information scroll unit 32 that adds and displays new information while scrolling the information received by the information receiving unit 31 in the order received. The display information scroll unit 32 functions as display information scroll means. The control unit 30 includes an information display unit 33 that displays information scrolled by the display information scroll unit 32. The information display unit 33 functions as information display means.

  By the way, the storage unit 40 includes a display guarantee time database 42 in which a display guarantee time corresponding to an expression mode of information received by the information reception unit 31 is stored in advance. The display guarantee time database 42 functions as display guarantee time storage means.

  The display guarantee time database 42 is illustrated in FIG. The display guarantee time database 42 displays an “expression mode” field indicating the expression mode of the information received by the information receiving unit 31 and a “display mode” indicating the display guarantee time in the case of the expression mode stored in the “expression mode” field. And a “guaranteed time” field. In the present embodiment, when the information received by the information receiving unit 31 is a text of less than 30 characters, the display guarantee time is 20 seconds. When the information is a text of 30 characters or more, the display guarantee time is the number of characters × 0.7 seconds. In addition, when the representation mode of the information received by the information receiving unit 31 is a still image, the display guarantee time is 25 seconds, and when it is a moving image, the display guarantee time is 30 seconds.

  The display information scroll unit 32 starts when information is displayed on the information display unit 33 and when the information reception unit 31 further receives information until the display guarantee time corresponding to the information elapses. Even so, the information is not scrolled until the guaranteed display time elapses, and after the guaranteed display time elapses, the information is scrolled and added to the next received information for display. For example, in the example illustrated in FIG. 2, the display information scroll unit 32 starts “Today's North Earth” at 17:35:30 on March 29, 2010. "With still image (hereinafter referred to as" Information 2 "), and 12 seconds later, in the same 42 seconds, further information with a 3-minute video (" I found a ramen image ") (Hereinafter referred to as “information 3”), but further information 3 was received after the start of displaying information 2 until 25 seconds, which is the guaranteed display time of “still image”, has elapsed. Even in such a case, the information 2 is not scrolled until the display guarantee time of 25 seconds elapses, and the information 2 is scrolled after the display guarantee time elapses and the information 3 is added and displayed.

[Configuration of Hardware and Software of First Embodiment]
The hardware and software configurations of the first embodiment will be described. The hardware of the server 2 and the terminal 3 includes a CPU as a control device (control unit), a storage device (storage unit), a communication device (communication unit), a display device (display unit), and an input device (input unit). Is included. Examples of the storage device (storage unit) include a memory (RAM, ROM, etc.), a hard disk drive (HDD), an optical disk (CD, DVD, etc.) drive, and the like. Examples of the communication device (communication unit) include various wired or wireless interface devices. Examples of the display device (display unit) include various displays such as a liquid crystal display or a plasma display. Examples of the input device (input unit) include a keyboard, a pointing device (such as a mouse), a remote control device, and the like.

  The software of the server 2 and the terminal 3 includes programs and data for controlling the hardware. Programs and data are stored in a storage device (storage unit), and are appropriately executed and referenced by a control device (control unit). Further, the computer program and data can be distributed by an electromagnetic method, or can be recorded and distributed on a computer-readable medium such as a CD-ROM.

[flowchart]
FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the terminal 3 according to the first embodiment.

  In step S <b> 1, the information reception unit 31 receives information distributed from the information distribution unit 11 of the server 2. In step S2, the information display unit 33 displays the information received by the information receiving unit 31.

  In step S <b> 3, the control unit 30 determines whether the display guarantee time set in the display guarantee time database 42 has elapsed. When this determination is YES, control unit 30 moves the process to step S4, and when NO, repeats the process of step S3.

  In step S4, the control unit 30 determines whether or not the information receiving unit 31 has received information. In the present embodiment, the information receiving unit 31 performs a polling process for requesting data from the server 2 asynchronously with the display on the information display unit 33, and a process synchronized with the display on the information display unit 33. That is, the process of requesting the server 2 to distribute information, receiving information from the server 2, and displaying the received information is not repeated. When this determination is YES, the control unit 30 moves the process to step S5, and when NO, the control unit 30 moves the process to step S6.

  In step S5, the display information scroll unit 32 scrolls the information being displayed and adds the next information (that is, information that has not been displayed on the information display unit 33 yet, the reception time is older). Then, the process proceeds to step S3. On the other hand, in step S6, the information display unit 33 continues to display the current information.

  In step S7, the control unit 30 determines whether or not to end a series of processes. When the determination is YES, the control unit 30 ends the series of processes, and when the determination is NO, the process proceeds to step S4.

[Example of the system 1 according to the first embodiment]
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a relationship between time and display content when the system 1, the terminal 3, the method, and the program according to the first embodiment are implemented.

  Here, the current time is March 29, 2010, 17:34:15, and at this time, the terminal 3 has information of a 20-character text indicating that “the Nikkei average stock price is recovering to XX yen” ( Hereinafter, description will be made on the basis of receiving “information 1”) and starting display of the information 1 on the terminal 3. According to FIG. 2, the representation mode of information 1 is “20 character text”, and according to the display guarantee time database 42 of FIG. 3, the display guarantee time when the representation mode is “text less than 30 characters” is “20 seconds”. It is. Therefore, the information display unit 33 displays the information 1 received at 17:34:15 for at least 17:34:15 to 20 seconds (that is, up to 35 seconds).

  Next, a case where 20 seconds have elapsed from 17:34:45 will be described. The controller 30 does not receive any information from 17:34:15 when the display of the information 1 is started until 20 seconds, and after that, when it becomes 17:35:30, "Northern Earth" begins. "With a still image (hereinafter referred to as" information 2 "). In this case, the information display unit 33 continues to display information 1 even after the minimum guaranteed time of 20 seconds has elapsed. Then, in response to receiving the information 2 at 17:35:30, the display information scroll unit 32 scrolls the information 1 being displayed and adds the information 2 as the next information to be displayed. FIG. 6A is an example of display on the screen 50 of the terminal 3 at this time. On the screen 50, information 1 is scrolled downward on the screen 50, and information 2 is additionally displayed on the upper side of the screen 50. Has been. According to FIG. 2, the representation mode of information 2 is “still image”, and according to the display guarantee time database 42 of FIG. 3, the display guarantee time when the representation mode is “still image” is “25 seconds”. . Therefore, the information display unit 33 displays the information 2 received at 17:35:30 for at least 25 seconds from 17:35:30 (that is, up to 55 seconds).

  By the way, the control part 30 is the information with the 3-minute animation that "I found the image of XX ramen" in the same 42 seconds between 17:35:30 and 25 seconds when the display of the information 2 was started. (Hereinafter referred to as “information 3”), but even in such a case, the display information scroll unit 32 does not scroll the information until the guaranteed display time of 25 seconds elapses. After the guaranteed display time elapses, the information being displayed is scrolled and the next received information is added and displayed. Therefore, even if the information 3 is received at 17:35:42, the display information scroll unit 32 displays the information that is being displayed in response to the fact that the minimum guaranteed time of 25 seconds has passed. 2, the information display unit 33 displays the newly added information 3. 6B is a display example on the screen 50 of the terminal 3 at this time. On the screen 50, the information 2 is scrolled below the screen 50, and the information 3 is additionally displayed above the screen 50. Has been. According to FIG. 3, the representation mode of the information 3 is “3-minute video”, and according to the display guarantee time database 42 of FIG. 3, the display guarantee time when the representation mode is “3-minute video” is “30 seconds”. It is. Therefore, the information display unit 33 displays the information 3 received at 17:35:42 at least 55 seconds to 30 seconds (that is, until 17:36:25).

  During this 30 seconds, the control unit 30 has 250 characters text information (hereinafter referred to as “information 4”) and “Sky Tree” However, even in such a case, the display information scroll unit 32 does not receive the information with a still image (hereinafter referred to as “information 5”). The information is not scrolled until the display guarantee time of 30 seconds elapses, and the displayed information 3 is scrolled after the display guarantee time elapses, and the next received information is added and displayed. Therefore, even if the information 4 and the information 5 are received, the display information scroll unit 32 scrolls the information 3 being displayed in response to the fact that 30 seconds, which is the minimum guaranteed time of the information 3, has passed. Information 4 which is information is added and displayed. Then, after the minimum guarantee time of information 4 has elapsed, the display information scroll unit 32 scrolls the information being displayed and adds information 5 as the next information to be displayed.

  According to the present embodiment, the display guarantee time database 42 stores in advance the display guarantee time according to the expression mode of the information distributed from the server 2 and scrolls the information displayed on the information display unit 33. 32, even when information is further received from the start of information display until the display guarantee time elapses, the information is not scrolled until the display guarantee time elapses, and the display guarantee time is displayed. Scrolls the displayed information after elapses, and adds the next received information to be displayed. Thereby, until the display guarantee time elapses, all or a part of the information being displayed is not cut off from the screen 50. Therefore, the information displayed by the information display unit 33 is displayed to the user. For each, sufficient time can be given to grasp the contents of the information.

  In addition, the display guarantee time database 42 stores not only the uniform display guarantee time but also the display guarantee time according to the expression mode of the information distributed from the server 2, so that the contents can be grasped in a short time. In spite of the fact that the information is related to the aspect, the information is not scrolled for a long time, and the information is related to the display aspect that is necessary for a long time to grasp the contents. It is possible to prevent scrolling. This can reduce wasted time and provide as much information as possible.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to provide sufficient time for grasping the content of the information displayed by the information display unit 33 and to provide as much information as possible. A system 1, a terminal 3, a method, and a program can be provided.

  In addition, the effect described in this embodiment only enumerated the most suitable effect which arises from this invention, and the effect by this invention is not limited to what was described in this embodiment.

[Second Embodiment]
Hereinafter, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
In the first embodiment, for each piece of information displayed by the information display unit 33, sufficient time is given to grasp the contents of the information, and as much information as possible can be provided. However, if the next information is received before the display guarantee time elapses, there remains a problem that the display of the next information is delayed. In particular, as the number of pieces of information received before the display guarantee time elapses, the width of the delay further increases. In the second embodiment and the third embodiment described later, the system 1, the terminal 3, the method, and the program capable of preventing the delay of information while maintaining the operational effects of the first embodiment. Is to provide.

[overall structure]
FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an overall configuration for explaining the system 1 and the terminal 3 according to the second embodiment. For convenience of explanation, the same reference numerals are given to the same components as those in the first embodiment. In contrast to the first embodiment, first, the configuration of the terminal 103 is different.
Second, the second embodiment is different in that a display priority designation operation receiving unit 134 is provided in the control unit 30 and a display priority database 143 is provided in the storage unit 40.
Third, the configuration of the reception information database 141 is different.
Fourth, the second embodiment is different in that a reduction operation reception unit 135 and an increase operation reception unit 136 are provided in the control unit 30.

  First, the first difference will be described. The terminal 3 of the first embodiment may be in any form, but the terminal 103 of the second embodiment is different in that it must be a touch panel type. The terminal 103 does not ask a kind if it is a touch panel type. For example, the terminal 103 may be a mobile terminal or a digital signage installed in a store, a station, or the like.

  Next, the second difference will be described. The display priority designation operation accepting unit 134 accepts an operation for designating the display priority of information to be displayed on the terminal 103, and stores the contents of the display priority received here in the display priority database 143. The display priority order specifying operation receiving unit 134 and the display priority order database 143 function as a display priority order specifying operation receiving unit.

  The display priority database 143 is illustrated in FIG. The display priority database 143 includes a “reception information ID” field for identifying a terminal (not shown) that has transmitted information to the server 2 and information transmitted from the terminal corresponding to the reception information ID to the server 2. And a “display priority” field for identifying the priority of actual display on the terminal 3. For example, when the user designates the priority order as reception information ID “A”, “B”, “C”, 1 is set for the reception information ID field A of the display priority order database 143. 2 is stored for B and 3 is stored for C.

  Next, the third difference will be described. The reception information database 141 is illustrated in FIG. The reception information database 41 according to the first embodiment includes a “reception time” field indicating a time when information is received, an “expression mode” field indicating an expression mode of the received information, and a “content” indicating the content of the received information. However, the reception information database 141 according to the second embodiment further includes a “reception information ID” field for identifying information (not shown).

  Finally, the fourth difference will be described. The reduction operation accepting unit 135 accepts an operation in which the user touches two points on the touch panel of the information display unit 33, and further, the distance between the two touched points, and the arrangement of information displayed by the information display unit 33 A reduction operation for reducing the distance in the direction of is received as an instruction to reduce the amount of information displayed on the information display unit 33. The reduction operation receiving unit 135 functions as a reduction operation receiving unit.

  When the reduction operation accepting unit 135 accepts the reduction operation, the information display unit 33, when the reduction operation accepting unit 135 accepts the operation, receives the end of displaying the currently displayed information, and thus the display priority is low. The amount of information displayed on the information display unit 33 is reduced by hiding the received information ID in order. For example, when the reduction operation accepting unit 135 accepts the reduction operation while the information display unit 33 displays the information of the reception information IDs “A” to “C”, the information display unit 33 displays the currently displayed information. In response to this, the received information ID “C” having the lowest display priority is not displayed, so that the amount of information displayed on the information display unit 33 is reduced. When the reduction operation receiving unit 135 further receives a reduction operation, the information display unit 33 receives the reception information ID “B” having the next lowest display priority in response to the display of the currently displayed information. The amount of information displayed on the information display unit 33 is reduced by hiding the information.

  The increase operation accepting unit 136 accepts an operation in which the user touches two points on the touch panel of the information display unit 33, and further, the distance between the two touched points, and the arrangement of information displayed by the information display unit 33 An operation to increase the distance in the direction of is received as an instruction to increase the amount of information displayed on the information display unit 33. The increase operation reception unit 136 functions as an increase operation reception unit.

  When the increase operation accepting unit 136 accepts the increase operation, the information display unit 33 displays the information displayed on the information display unit 33 by displaying the information in the order of higher display priority even if the information is once hidden. Increase the amount. For example, even when the information of the reception information ID “C” and the information of the reception information ID “B” are not displayed and the amount of information displayed on the information display unit 33 is once reduced, the increase operation reception unit 136 When the reduction operation is accepted, the information display unit 33 refers to the display priority database 143 and displays the information of the reception information ID “B” having the highest display priority among the non-displayed reception information IDs. Thus, the amount of information displayed on the information display unit 33 is increased. When the increase operation reception unit 136 receives a further increase operation, the information display unit 33 refers to the display priority database 143 and displays the information of the reception information ID “C” having the next highest display priority. Thus, the amount of information displayed on the information display unit 33 is increased.

[Configuration of Hardware and Software of Second Embodiment]
The hardware and software configurations of the second embodiment are the same as those of the first embodiment. The hardware of the server 2 and the terminal 103 includes a storage device (storage unit) in addition to a CPU as a control device (control unit). ), Communication device (communication unit), display device (display unit), and input device (input unit). The software of the server 2 and the terminal 103 includes programs and data for controlling the hardware.

[flowchart]
FIG. 10 is a flowchart of the terminal 103 according to the second embodiment.

  In step S <b> 101, the display priority order designation operation accepting unit 134 accepts an operation for designating the display priority order of information displayed on the information display unit 33. The contents received in this process are stored in the display priority database 143. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 8, the user designates the reception information ID “A” as the priority “1”, the reception information ID “B” as the priority “2”, and the reception information ID “C”. "Is designated as the priority order" 3 ", the display priority order designation operation accepting unit 134 accepts the designated operation and stores it in the display priority order database 143.

  For example, when the user of the terminal 103 belongs to an organization such as a company, the reception information ID of information distributed by the organization such as the company to which the user belongs belongs to priority “1”, and the received information of the industry paper distribution source It is conceivable to specify the display priority in the order of ID, reception information ID of a general news distribution source, reception information ID of a hobby or entertainment news distribution source, and so on. Further, for example, if the user of the terminal 103 is a student, the received information ID (official ID) of information distributed by the school or department to which the user belongs is given priority “1”, and the professor in charge of the class being studied distributes it. It is conceivable to specify the display priority in the order of the received information ID of information, the received information ID of information distributed by the seminar to which the user belongs, the received information ID of information distributed by the circle to which the user belongs,. . Regardless of the user's attributes, it is also conceivable to set the reception information ID of information distributed by “Meteorological Agency” or “Local Government” that sends earthquake early warnings and disaster information to the highest priority.

  In step S <b> 102, the information receiving unit 31 receives information distributed from the information distribution unit 11 of the server 2. In step S103, the information display unit 33 displays the information received by the information receiving unit 31.

  In step S104, the control unit 30 determines whether or not the display guarantee time set in the display guarantee time database 42 has elapsed. When this determination is YES, control unit 30 moves the process to step S105, and when NO, repeats the process of step S104.

  In step S105, it is determined whether or not the reduction operation receiving unit 135 has received a reduction operation while the information display unit 33 is displaying information. In this process, the reduction operation accepting unit 135 accepts an operation in which the user touches two points on the touch panel of the information display unit 33, and further, the information display unit 33 displays the distance between the two touched points. It is determined whether or not an operation for reducing the distance in the direction of the arrangement of information to be received has been received. When this determination is YES, the reduction operation accepting unit 135 moves the process to step S106, and when NO, the reduction operation accepting unit 135 moves the process to step S107. In step S <b> 106, the information display unit 33 reduces the amount of information displayed on the information display unit 33 by sequentially hiding the received information ID from the lowest display priority.

  In step S107, it is determined whether or not the increasing operation reception unit 136 has received an increasing operation. In this process, the increase operation receiving unit 136 receives an operation in which the user touches two points on the touch panel of the information display unit 33, and further, the information display unit 33 displays the distance between the two touched points. It is determined whether or not an operation for extending the distance in the direction of the arrangement of information to be received has been accepted. When this determination is YES, the increasing operation accepting unit 136 moves the process to step S108, and when NO, the increasing operation accepting unit 136 moves the process to step S109. In step S <b> 108, the information display unit 33 increases the amount of information displayed on the information display unit 33 by displaying in order from the display information ID having the highest display priority even if the information is once hidden. .

  In step S109, the control unit 30 determines whether or not the information receiving unit 31 has received information. In the present embodiment, as in the first embodiment, the information receiving unit 31 performs a polling process for requesting data to the server 2 asynchronously with the display on the information display unit 33. In other words, the process of synchronizing with the display at the time, that is, the process of requesting the server 2 to distribute information, receiving the information from the server 2, and displaying the received information is not repeated. When this determination is YES, the control unit 30 moves the process to step S110, and when NO, the control unit 30 moves the process to step S111.

  In step S110, the display information scroll unit 32 adds and displays the next information (that is, information that has not been displayed yet on the information display unit 33 and has an earlier reception time), and the process proceeds to step S104. . On the other hand, in step S111, the information display unit 33 continues to display current information.

  In step S112, the control unit 30 determines whether to end a series of processes. When the determination is YES, the control unit 30 ends the series of processes, and when the determination is NO, the process proceeds to step S109.

[Example of system 1 according to the second embodiment]
FIGS. 11 and 12 are diagrams illustrating an example of a relationship between time and display content when the system 1, the terminal 103, the method, and the program according to the second embodiment are implemented. 11 and 12 are the same in that the relationship between the time when the information receiving unit 31 receives the information according to FIG. 9 and the display content is shown, but FIG. 11 shows the case where the user does not perform the reduction operation. FIG. 12 is different from FIG. 12 in that it is an example when the user performs the reduction operation once. Note that the reduction operation touches two points on a touch panel screen (not shown) of the terminal 103, and is the distance between the two touched points in the direction of the arrangement of information displayed on the screen. This is an operation to shorten the distance.

  First, FIG. 11 will be described. In FIG. 11, since the user has not performed a reduction operation, all information is displayed for at least the display guarantee time regardless of the priority order of the reception information ID. Even if the reduction operation is not performed in this way, as in the first embodiment, each of the information displayed by the information display unit 33 is given sufficient time to grasp the content of the information, and as much as possible. It becomes possible to provide the information. However, “Today's North Earth” started on March 29, 2010 at 17:35:30. ”Until the end of 25 seconds, which is the display guarantee time for information with a still image (hereinafter referred to as“ C1 ”). There is a problem that the information of the 3-minute video (hereinafter referred to as “B1”) is received, and the display of the B1 is delayed. Then, as the number of pieces of information received before the display guarantee time elapses, the width of the delay is further increased.

  Next, FIG. 12 will be described. In FIG. 12, the user performs a reduction operation once during the display of C1.

  Here, as in the first embodiment, the current time is March 29, 2010, 17:34:15. At this time, the terminal 103 receives the “Nikkei Stock Average is XX of the reception information ID“ A ”. A description will be made on the basis that information of 20-character text (hereinafter referred to as “A1”) “receiving momentum to recover to a circle” is received and display of this A1 is started on the terminal 3. According to the display guarantee time database 42 of FIG. 3, the display guarantee time when the expression mode is “text less than 30 characters” is “20 seconds”. Therefore, the information display unit 33 displays A1 received at 17:34:15 at least from 17:34:15 to 20 seconds (that is, up to 35 seconds).

  Next, a case where 20 seconds have elapsed from 17:34:45 will be described. The control unit 30 does not receive any information for 20 seconds from 17:34:15 when the display of the information 1 is started, and then receives the reception information ID “1” when it becomes 17:35:30. “From today,” “To the north earth” begins. "With a still image (hereinafter referred to as" C1 "). In this case, the information display unit 33 continues to display A1 even after the minimum guaranteed time of 20 seconds has elapsed. Then, in response to the reception of C1 at 17:35:30, the display information scroll unit 32 scrolls A1 and adds and displays the next information C1. According to the display guarantee time database 42 of FIG. 3, the display guarantee time when the expression mode is “still image” is “25 seconds”. Therefore, the information display unit 33 displays C1 received at 17:35:30 for at least 17:35:30 for 25 seconds (that is, up to 55 seconds).

  By the way, while displaying C1, the reduction operation accepting unit 135 accepts a reduction operation. In this case, the information display unit 33 reduces the amount of information displayed on the information display unit 33 by hiding the reception information ID “C” having the lowest display priority, but does not reduce the amount immediately. Reduced when the minimum guaranteed time of C1 has passed.

  In addition, the information receiving unit 31 displays information with a 3-minute animation (hereinafter referred to as “A ramen image was found” of the reception information ID “B” at 17:35:42 during the display of C1. In this case, the display information scroll unit 32 does not scroll the information until the guaranteed display time of 25 seconds elapses, and the guaranteed display time. After the elapses, the information is scrolled and the next received information is added and displayed. Therefore, even if B1 is received at 17:35:42, the display information scroll unit 32 scrolls C1 with the next information in response to the fact that the minimum guaranteed time of C1 has elapsed of 25 seconds. A certain B1 is added and displayed. According to the display guarantee time database 42 of FIG. 3, the display guarantee time when the expression mode is “3 minute moving image” is “30 seconds”. Therefore, the information display unit 33 displays B1 received at 17:35:42 at least 55 seconds to 30 seconds (that is, until 17:36:25).

  During this 30 seconds, the control unit 30 receives the information of 250 characters text (hereinafter referred to as “C2”) of the received information ID “C”, “What drama should I watch from April? .) And still image information (hereinafter referred to as “A2”) “Receiving information ID“ A ”“ Sky Tree is now higher than Tokyo Tower. ” Even so, the display information scroll unit 32 does not scroll the information until the display guarantee time of 30 seconds elapses, and scrolls the information after the display guarantee time elapses to receive the next received information. indicate.

  By the way, as described above, the reduction operation accepting unit 135 accepts the reduction operation, and in response to this, the information display unit 33 hides the reception information ID “C” having the lowest display priority to display information. The amount of information displayed on the display unit 33 is reduced. Since C2 is not displayed in this way, the display information scroll unit 32 scrolls B1 and performs additional display of A2 instead of C2.

  In the present embodiment, by providing the reduction operation accepting unit 135, even when a large amount of information having a low display priority for a user is distributed in a short period of time, the information is appropriately hidden from the information with the lowest display priority. Since it is possible to display only information with a high display priority, it is possible to provide the terminal 103 capable of reliably transmitting information with a high display priority to the user while maintaining a high level of promptness.

  Although not shown in the drawings, in the second embodiment, the user accepts an operation for touching two points on the touch panel of the information display unit 33, and the distance between the two touched points is the information display unit. The information processing unit further includes an increase operation receiving unit 136 that receives an operation to increase the distance in the direction of the information arrangement displayed by the information display unit 33 as an instruction to increase the amount of information displayed on the information display unit 33. Even if the information is not displayed by the information display unit 33 in response to accepting the operation, the amount of information displayed on the information display unit is increased by displaying the information in order from the highest display priority. .

  By providing such an increase operation reception unit 136, when all the information with high priority is browsed and information with low priority is desired to be browsed in detail, the user touches two points on the touch panel, and the contact is made. The increase operation accepting unit 136 accepts the operation only by increasing the distance in the direction of the arrangement of the information displayed by the information display unit 33, and the information display unit 33 The information is displayed in descending order. Therefore, depending on the time when the information can be browsed, whether to browse only the information with high priority or to view the information with low priority in detail, touch two points on the touch panel and It is possible to provide a terminal 3 that can be freely selected only by an expansion / contraction operation of the distance between points.

  In addition, the effect described in this embodiment only enumerated the most suitable effect which arises from this invention, and the effect by this invention is not limited to what was described in this embodiment.

[Third Embodiment]
Hereinafter, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
Similarly to the second embodiment, the third embodiment can maintain the operational effects of the first embodiment, and can prevent the delay of information, the system 1, the terminal 3, the method, and the program. Is to provide.

[overall structure]
FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an overall configuration for explaining the system 1 and the terminal 3 according to the third embodiment. For convenience of explanation, the same reference numerals are given to the same components as those in the first embodiment. In contrast to the first embodiment, first, in the third embodiment, the display priority specifying operation receiving unit 234 is provided in the control unit 30, and the display priority database 243 is provided in the storage unit 40. Different.
Second, the configuration of the reception information database 241 is different.
Third, the function of the display information scroll unit 232 is different from the function of the display information scroll unit 32 of the first embodiment.

  First, the first difference will be described. The display priority specifying operation receiving unit 234 has substantially the same function as the display priority specifying operation receiving unit 134 of the second embodiment, and receives an operation for specifying the display priority of information to be displayed on the terminal 3. The contents of the display priority received here are stored in the display priority database 243. The display priority designation operation receiving unit 234 and the display priority database 243 function as a display priority designation operation receiving unit.

  The display priority database 243 is illustrated in FIG. The display priority database 243 includes a “category” field for identifying the category to which the information distributed from the server 2 belongs, and a “display priority” for identifying the priority for displaying the distributed information on the terminal 3. Field. For example, when the user designates the priorities in the order of categories “A”, “B”, and “C”, 1 is assigned to the category field “A” in the display priority database 243 and “B” "Is stored for" ", and 3 is stored for" C ".

  Next, the second difference will be described. The reception information database 241 is illustrated in FIG. The reception information database 41 according to the first embodiment includes a “reception time” field indicating a time when information is received, an “expression mode” field indicating an expression mode of the received information, and a “content” indicating the content of the received information. The received information database 141 according to the second embodiment further includes a “category” field indicating a category to which the received information belongs.

  In the example of FIG. 15, the information receiving unit 31 belongs to the category “A” on March 29, 2010 at 17:34:45, and has 20 characters “Nikkei Stock Average is recovering to XX yen”. Text information (hereinafter referred to as “A1”) is received, and subsequently, “Today's North Earth” belonging to the category “C” begins at 35:30. "With a still image (hereinafter referred to as" C1 "). The received information database 241 stores these pieces of information.

  Finally, the third difference will be described. The display information scroll unit 32 of the first embodiment additionally displays information in the order received by the information receiving unit 31 regardless of the information when the minimum guaranteed time of the information being displayed has elapsed. . On the other hand, the display information scroll unit 232 of the third embodiment is limited to a period until the information receiving unit 31 receives information belonging to a category having a higher display priority after the minimum guaranteed time of the information being displayed has elapsed. Then, information belonging to a category having a lower display priority is sequentially added and displayed in the order received by the information receiving unit 31.

  For example, a case where the information receiving unit 31 receives information in the order of information belonging to the category B, information belonging to the category C, and information belonging to the category A while the information display unit 33 displays certain information will be described. . The display information scroll unit 232 receives the information belonging to the category with the lower display priority only during the period until the information receiving unit 31 receives the information belonging to the category with the higher display priority. Additional display in order. That is, when the minimum guarantee time of the information being displayed has elapsed, even if the information receiving unit 31 has received the information belonging to category B and the information belonging to category C first, the display information scroll unit 232 has the highest display priority. The information belonging to the higher category A is additionally displayed.

[Configuration of Hardware and Software of Third Embodiment]
The hardware and software configurations of the third embodiment are the same as those of the first embodiment. The hardware of the server 2 and the terminal 3 includes a storage device (storage unit) in addition to a CPU as a control device (control unit). ), Communication device (communication unit), display device (display unit), and input device (input unit). The software of the server 2 and the terminal 103 includes programs and data for controlling the hardware.

[flowchart]
FIG. 16 is a flowchart of the terminal 103 according to the third embodiment.

  In step S <b> 201, the display priority order specifying operation receiving unit 234 receives an operation for specifying the display priority order of information to be displayed on the information display unit 33. The contents received in this process are stored in the display priority database 243. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 14, the user designates information belonging to the category “A” as the priority “1”, designates information belonging to the category “B” as the priority “2”, and assigns the category “C”. When the information belonging to “” is designated as the priority “3”, the display priority designation operation accepting unit 234 accepts this designated operation and stores it in the display priority database 243.

  In step S <b> 202, the information reception unit 31 receives information distributed from the information distribution unit 11 of the server 2. In step S203, the information display unit 33 displays the information received by the information receiving unit 31.

  In step S <b> 204, the control unit 30 determines whether the display guarantee time set in the display guarantee time database 42 has elapsed. When this determination is YES, the control unit 30 moves the process to step S205, and when NO, repeats the process of step S204.

  In step S205, the control unit 30 determines whether or not the information receiving unit 31 has received information on a category having a higher display priority. In the present embodiment, as in the first and second embodiments, the information receiving unit 31 performs a polling process for requesting data from the server 2 asynchronously with the display on the information display unit 33. The process of synchronizing with the display on the information display unit 33, that is, the process of requesting the server 2 to distribute information, receiving the information from the server 2, and displaying the received information is not repeated. When this determination is YES, the control unit 30 moves the process to step S206, and when it is NO, the control unit 30 moves the process to step S207.

  In step S206, the display information scroll unit 232 scrolls the information being displayed, additionally displays information belonging to a category with a higher display priority, and moves the process to step S204.

  In step S <b> 207, the control unit 30 determines whether there is information that has not been displayed on the information display unit 33 among the information stored in the reception information database 241. When the determination is YES, the control unit 30 moves the process to step S208, and when the determination is NO, the control unit 30 moves the process to step S209.

  In step S208, the display information scroll unit 232 scrolls the information being displayed, and adds information that has a higher display priority and an older reception time among the information that has not been displayed on the information display unit 33 yet. indicate.

  In step S209, the information display unit 33 continues to display current information.

  In step S210, the control unit 30 determines whether or not to end a series of processes. When the determination is YES, the control unit 30 ends the series of processes, and when the determination is NO, the process proceeds to step S205.

[Example of system 1 according to the third embodiment]
FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating an example of a relationship between time and display content when the system 1, the terminal 103, the method, and the program according to the third embodiment are implemented.

  Here, the current time is 17:34:15 on March 29, 2010, and at this time, the terminal 3 belongs to category A, “20 moments that the Nikkei Stock Average will recover to XX yen”. A description will be made on the basis that text information (hereinafter referred to as “A1”) is received and display of this A1 is started on the terminal 3. According to the display guarantee time database 42 of FIG. 3, the display guarantee time when the expression mode is “text less than 30 characters” is “20 seconds”. Therefore, the information display unit 33 displays A1 received at 17:34:15 at least from 17:34:15 to 20 seconds (that is, up to 35 seconds).

  Next, a case where 20 seconds have elapsed from 17:34:45 will be described. The control unit 30 does not receive any information for 20 seconds from 17:34:15 when the display of A1 is started, and then belongs to the category C for the first time when it becomes 17:35:30. “To the north earth” begins today. "With a still image (hereinafter referred to as" C1 "). In this case, the information display unit 33 continues to display A1 even after the minimum guaranteed time of 20 seconds has elapsed. Then, in response to the reception of C1 at 17:35:30, the display information scroll unit 32 scrolls A1 and adds and displays the next information C1. According to the display guarantee time database 42 of FIG. 3, the display guarantee time when the expression mode is “still image” is “25 seconds”. Therefore, the information display unit 33 displays C1 received at 17:35:30 for at least 17:35:30 for 25 seconds (that is, up to 55 seconds).

  During the 25 seconds when the information display unit 33 displays C1, the information reception unit 31 “O” belonging to category B at the same 42 seconds between 17:35:30 and 25 seconds when the display of C1 is started. ○ We have received information (hereinafter referred to as “B1”) with a 3-minute video saying “I found an image of ramen.” The display information scroll unit 232 receives the information belonging to the category with the lower display priority only during the period until the information receiving unit 31 receives the information belonging to the category with the higher display priority. The additional display is sequentially performed, but this additional display is performed after the minimum guaranteed time has elapsed. Therefore, even if B1 having a higher display priority is received during the display of C1, the display information scroll unit 232 does not immediately display additional information, but waits for 25 seconds, which is the minimum guaranteed time, to wait for B1. Add additional display.

  According to the display guarantee time database 42 of FIG. 3, the display guarantee time when the expression mode is “moving image” is “30 seconds”. Therefore, the information display unit 33 displays B1 received at 17:35:42 for at least 17:35:55 to 30 seconds (that is, until 17:36:25).

  Next, a case where 30 seconds have elapsed from 17:35:55 will be described. During the 30 seconds when the information display unit 33 displays B1, the information receiving unit 31 belongs to the category C at 17: 36: 5, “Which drama should we watch from April? ”And a still image with a still image of“ Sky Tree has become higher than Tokyo Tower ”belonging to category A in the same 22 seconds (hereinafter referred to as“ C2 ”). Hereinafter referred to as “A2”). Since the display information scroll unit 232 scrolls B1 and additionally displays information belonging to a category having a higher display priority, the display information scroll unit 232 is configured so that the information receiving unit 31 receives C2 first. A2 is additionally displayed. When the additional display of A2 is completed, the display information scroll unit 232 scrolls this A2 and performs the additional display of C2.

  According to the third embodiment, the display priority order specifying operation receiving unit 234 receives an operation for specifying the display priority order of the category to which the information to be displayed on the information display unit 33 belongs. The display information scroll unit 232 scrolls the information when the minimum guaranteed time has elapsed and additionally displays the next received information. The information receiving unit 31 first displays information belonging to a category with a low display priority. Even if it is received, when information belonging to a category with a high display priority is received before the minimum guaranteed time elapses, information belonging to the category with a high display priority is additionally displayed. As a result, even if a large amount of information belonging to a category with a low display priority is distributed in a short period of time, information belonging to a category with a high display priority can be displayed from the oldest to the highest. It is possible to provide the system 1, the terminal 3, the method, and the program that can more reliably display information important to the user while maintaining the above.

  In addition, the effect described in this embodiment only enumerated the most suitable effect which arises from this invention, and the effect by this invention is not limited to what was described in this embodiment.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 System 2 Server 3 Terminal 10 Server control part 11 Information distribution part 30 Terminal control part 31 Information receiving part 32 Display information scroll part 33 Information display part 40 Terminal storage part 41 Reception information database 42 Display guarantee time database

Claims (4)

A terminal comprising information receiving means for receiving information distributed from a server, and information display means for adding and displaying new information while scrolling the information in the order of reception in response to the reception,
Display guarantee time storage means for storing the display guarantee time according to the expression mode of the information in advance;
Display information scrolling means for scrolling information displayed by the information display means,
The display information scrolling means, when the information receiving means further receives the information after the display of the information is started and before the display guaranteed time corresponding to the information elapses, A terminal that scrolls the information after the guaranteed display time elapses and adds the next received information and displays the information without scrolling the information until the time has elapsed. A system comprising a server for distributing information and a terminal for displaying information distributed from the server,
The terminal
Information receiving means for receiving information distributed from the server;
Information display means for adding and displaying new information while scrolling the information in the order of reception according to the reception;
Display guarantee time storage means for storing the display guarantee time according to the expression mode of the information in advance;
Display information scroll means for scrolling information displayed by the information display means,
The display information scrolling means, when the information receiving means further receives the information after the display of the information is started and before the display guaranteed time corresponding to the information elapses, A system for scrolling the information after the guaranteed display time has elapsed and adding and displaying the next received information without scrolling the information until it has elapsed. A method for displaying information distributed from a server on a terminal,
The terminal
An information receiving step for receiving information distributed from the server;
An information display step of adding and displaying new information while scrolling the information in the order of reception according to the reception,
When further information is received from the server after the display of the information starts until the display guarantee time according to the expression mode of the information elapses, the information is displayed until the display guarantee time elapses. A display information scrolling step of scrolling the information after the guaranteed display time has elapsed without adding scrolling, and adding and displaying the next received information. A program for displaying information distributed from a server on a terminal,
An information receiving step for receiving information distributed from the server;
An information display step of adding and displaying new information while scrolling the information in the order of reception according to the reception,
When further information is received from the server after the display of the information starts until the display guarantee time according to the expression mode of the information elapses, the information is displayed until the display guarantee time elapses. A program for causing the terminal to execute a display information scrolling step of scrolling the information after the guaranteed display time has elapsed without adding scrolling and displaying the information received next.

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