JP2014074941A - Character addition program, character addition method and information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To fulfill contents of a document prepared by a user.SOLUTION: An information processor receives, for example, a character input from a user in an input area. Then, the information processor selects video information to be associated with the received character from a storage part for storing video information being a still image or a moving image by associating the video information with at least one character that characterizes contents of the video information. Then, the information processor adds a character to be associated with the selected video information to the received character in an input area.

Description

  The present invention relates to a character addition program, a character addition method, and an information processing apparatus.

  Enrichment of content composed of words (hereinafter referred to as “language content” where appropriate), such as blogs developed on websites and distribution novels distributed via networks, and “language content” The words are visualized for the purpose of helping to interpret "."

  In recent years, a technique for visualizing “language content” searched by the user on the Internet or the like is also known. For example, there is known a video content generation apparatus that performs visualization by accurately reflecting a user's intention, desire or expectation. Specifically, the video content generation device uses video information obtained by interpreting character information in a category such as objective, subjective, and attribute, and using the character information included in the “language content”. The “word content” input by the user is interpreted in the category specified by the user and converted into a video.

JP 2009-230254 A

  However, when a user searches for “word content” to be visualized on the Internet or the like, the user selects a word that he envisions and searches while creating a document. There is a problem that it is difficult to search.

  For example, many words are often input to a search tool or a search document to be input to the search tool is repeatedly created until a desired content is searched, which often takes time and effort.

  The disclosed technology has been made in view of the above, and an object thereof is to provide a character addition program, a character addition method, and an information processing apparatus capable of enhancing the contents of a document created by a user.

  In one aspect, a character addition program, a character addition method, and an information processing device disclosed in the present application include a reception step of receiving input of characters in an input area, video information that is a still image or a moving image, and contents of the video information. A selection step of selecting video information associated with the character received by the reception step from a storage unit that stores at least one character to be characterized in association with the character, and the video information selected by the selection step The computer is caused to execute an adding step of adding characters other than the characters accepted by the accepting step to the input area after the accepted characters.

  According to one aspect of the character addition program, the character addition method, and the information processing apparatus disclosed in the present application, there is an effect that the content of the document created by the user can be enhanced.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of the overall configuration of a system according to the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of information stored in the word DB. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of information stored in the video DB. FIG. 5 is a sequence diagram showing the flow of processing. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a specific example. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a computer that executes a character addition program.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of a character addition program, a character addition method, and an information processing device disclosed in the present application will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In addition, this invention is not limited by this embodiment.

[First Embodiment]
(overall structure)
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of the overall configuration of a system according to the first embodiment. The information processing apparatus 10 illustrated in FIG. 1 is an example of a video content generation apparatus that visualizes “language content”. Note that the information processing apparatus 10 may be an apparatus that provides information to the video content generation apparatus instead of the video content generation apparatus.

  The information processing apparatus 10 uses the video information obtained by interpreting the character information in the categories of objective, subjective, attribute, and the like, and the characters included in the “word content” to input “ “Word content” is interpreted in a category specified by the user and converted into a video.

  Specifically, the information processing apparatus 10 stores in advance information that interprets characters in different categories and associates interpretation information with the characters, and information that associates interpretation information and video information. Then, the information processing apparatus 10 accepts input of “language content” and accepts, for example, a user from which category the input content is interpreted.

  Subsequently, the information processing apparatus 10 acquires interpretation information according to the selected category for each character included in the received content. Then, the information processing apparatus 10 extracts video information corresponding to the acquired interpretation information. Thereafter, the information processing apparatus 10 generates and outputs video content from the video information extracted for each character in the word content. In this way, the information processing apparatus 10 visualizes the content of the word while accurately reflecting the user's intention, desire or expectation.

  In such a state, when the information processing apparatus 10 receives character input from the user, for example, in the input area, the information processing apparatus 10 associates video information that is a still image or a moving image with at least one character that characterizes the content of the video information. The video information associated with the received character is selected from the storage unit. Then, the information processing apparatus 10 adds a character associated with the selected video information to the received character in the input area.

  In this way, when the user creates a sentence, the information processing apparatus 10 automatically selects words suitable for the image envisioned by the user by selecting an image suitable for the input character (word). Can be added. As a result, the text created by the user can be enriched with a small number of input words.

(Functional configuration)
FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment. In FIG. 2, the function of visualizing the word content is omitted. For this function, a processing unit disclosed in JP2009-230254A or the like can be used.

  As illustrated in FIG. 2, the information processing apparatus 10 includes a communication control unit 11, an input unit 12, a display unit 13, a storage unit 14, and a control unit 15. The communication control unit 11 is a processing unit that controls communication with other devices, and is, for example, a network interface card. For example, the communication control unit 11 transmits various data to the video content generation device when the information processing device 10 is an external device of the video content generation device.

  The input unit 12 is an input device such as a mouse or a keyboard. The input unit 12 accepts input of characters or the like to a search word input area or the like displayed on the display unit 13. Further, the input unit 12 receives image selection for a plurality of images displayed in the image display area in the display unit 13.

  The display unit 13 is a display device such as a display or a touch panel. The display unit 13 displays and outputs information output from each processing unit of the control unit 15 described later. The display unit 13 displays information by classifying the display area into a search word input area and an image display area. For example, the search word input area is an area for allowing a user to input a search word or the like, and the image display area is an area for displaying an image output from each processing unit of the control unit 15.

  The storage unit 14 is a storage unit that stores the word DB 14a and the video DB 14b, and is, for example, a storage device such as hardware or memory. The storage unit 14 stores programs executed by the control unit 15 and data. The word content is visualized using the word DB 14a and the video DB 14b stored here.

  The word DB 14a is a database that stores interpretation information by interpreting characters in different categories. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of information stored in the word DB. As shown in FIG. 3, the word DB 14 a stores “interpretation category, character, word ID, visual part ID (interpretation information)” in association with each other.

  In the “interpretation category” stored here, a category for interpreting characters is set. In the “character”, character information to be interpreted is set. In the “language ID”, identification information for identifying a character is set. In the “visual part ID (interpretation information)”, the video information specified by the interpretation of the words in the interpretation category is set.

  In the case of FIG. 3, the visual component IDs when the character “dog” of the word ID “WA1” is objectively interpreted are “VA1” and “VA2”. Moreover, as an example of the image matched with VA1 and VA2, the image of a general dog, such as a brown or black-green short-haired dog, is mentioned on a white background.

  Further, the visual component IDs “VB1” and “VB2” when the character “dog” of the word ID “WA1” is subjectively interpreted are indicated. The visual part ID “VB1” is also associated with the character “white” having the word ID “WA2”. Further, the visual component ID “VB1” is also associated with the word “small” with the word ID “WA3”. From these, examples of images associated with VB1 include white and small dog images. Examples of images associated with VB2 include images of dogs such as shiba inu and siberian husky that the user likes.

  Further, the visual part IDs when the character “dog” of the word ID “WA1” is interpreted as an attribute are “VC1” and “VC2”. Examples of images associated with VC1 and VC2 include “word content”, that is, images of dogs or the like that match the historical background of novels input as document content.

  The video DB 14b stores information in which interpretation information and video information are associated with each other. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of information stored in the video DB. As shown in FIG. 4, the video DB 14 b stores “language ID, visual component ID, video information” in association with each other.

  The “word ID” stored here corresponds to the “word ID” shown in FIG. 3, and the “visual part ID” corresponds to the “visual part ID (interpretation information)” shown in FIG. In the “video information”, image information stored in the storage unit 14 or the like is set. That is, the video information can be uniquely specified by the “word ID” and the “visual part ID (interpretation information)” shown in FIG. The visual component ID “VA1” shown in FIG. 4 is, for example, a brown dog image on a white background, and the visual component ID “VB1” is a white, small dog image.

  The control unit 15 includes a text editing unit 16, a conversion unit 17, an image specification unit 18, an image selection unit 19, and a character addition unit 20. The control unit 15 is a processor such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit), for example, and each processing unit is a processing unit executed by the processor.

  The text editing unit 16 is a processing unit that edits characters and words received via the input unit 12. Specifically, the text editing unit 16 receives characters and displays them in the search word input area of the display unit 13. In addition, the text editing unit 16 outputs the characters input in the search word input area to the conversion unit 17, and displays the converted characters in the search word input area when the conversion unit 17 converts the characters into kanji or the like. .

  For example, the text editing unit 16 accepts a document that is input as a search key when the user searches for a desired content or image. At this time, the text editing unit 16 acquires and outputs the character to the conversion unit 17 for each character input in creating the document.

  The conversion unit 17 is a processing unit that converts characters and the like output from the text editing unit 16 into a predetermined format. Specifically, the conversion unit 17 receives a conversion format designation from the user or the like. Then, the conversion unit 17 converts the characters output from the text editing unit 16 according to the specified conversion format. For example, the conversion unit 17 converts “dog” input to the search word input area of the display unit 13 into “dog”. The “dog” thus converted is displayed in the search word input area of the display unit 13 by the text editing unit 16 or the like.

  The image specifying unit 18 specifies a plurality of pieces of video information associated with received characters from the word DB 14a and the video DB 14b that store video information and at least one character characterizing the content of the video information in association with each other. It is.

  For example, the image specifying unit 18 acquires a character displayed in the search word input area of the display unit 13, and specifies a word ID associated with the character from the word DB 14a. Then, the image specifying unit 18 specifies the visual component ID associated with the specified word ID from the video DB 14b. Thereafter, the image specifying unit 18 specifies video information associated with the specified visual component ID from the video DB 14 b and displays the specified video information in the image display area of the display unit 13.

  In addition, when specifying the image corresponding to the input character, the image specifying unit 18 may specify the image corresponding to “subjectivity” in the word DB 14a. By doing in this way, the image suitable for the user's subjectivity can be selected.

  For example, when “WA1” is specified as the word ID, the image specifying unit 18 selects “image A1, image A2, image B1, image B2, image C1, image C2” associated with “WA1”. The image is displayed in the image display area of the display unit 13.

  The image selecting unit 19 is a processing unit that selects one image from the images specified by the image specifying unit 18. For example, the image selection unit 19 accepts a user's selection from “image A1, image A2, image B1, image B2, image C1, image C2” displayed in the image display area of the display unit 13. Then, the image selection unit 19 outputs the image B1 selected by the user to the character addition unit 20.

  The image selection unit 19 can also automatically select one image from the images displayed in the image display area of the display unit 13. For example, when specifying an image corresponding to “dog”, the image selection unit 19 calculates a ratio of displaying the image of “dog” for each image displayed in the image display area of the display unit 13. For example, the image selection unit 19 calculates that 45% of the images of “dogs” are included in all the images of the image A. Note that various known techniques can be used as a method of calculating the ratio. And the image selection part 19 can also select an image with the largest ratio among each image displayed on the image display area of the display part 13. FIG. As described above, the image selection unit 19 can also automatically select an image corresponding to a document imaged by the user.

  The character adding unit 20 is a processing unit that adds a character associated with the video information selected by the image selecting unit 19 from the plurality of video information specified by the image specifying unit 18 to the received character.

  In the above example, the character adding unit 20 receives the image B1 from the image selecting unit 19 as the selected image. Then, the character adding unit 20 specifies the visual component ID “VB1” associated with the received image B1 from the video DB 14b. Subsequently, the character adding unit 20 sets “dog” with the word ID “WA1”, “white” with the word ID “WA2”, and the word ID “WA2” as the characters associated with the visual part ID “VB1”. The word “WA3” is identified as “small” from the word DB 14a.

  Thereafter, since the input character is “dog”, the character adding unit 20 extracts the characters “white” and “small” excluding “dog” from the specified characters, and inputs the extracted characters to the input character “dog”. To follow. Specifically, the character adding unit 20 adds the extracted “white” and “small” to the search word input area following the “dog” already input in the search word input area of the display unit 13.

(Process flow)
FIG. 5 is a sequence diagram showing the flow of processing. As shown in FIG. 5, the text editing unit 16 accepts input of characters in the search word input area of the display unit 13 (S101). Subsequently, the text editing unit 16 displays the received characters in the search word input area of the display unit 13 (S102). Then, the text editing unit 16 outputs the received character to the conversion unit 17 (S103 and S104).

  Subsequently, the conversion unit 17 converts the characters received from the text editing unit 16 according to the conversion format specified by the user or the like (S105). And the conversion part 17 outputs the converted character which is the converted character to the text edit part 16 and the image specific | specification part 18 (S106-S108). Then, the text editing unit 16 displays the converted character received from the conversion unit 17 in the search word input area of the display unit 13 (S109).

  On the other hand, the image specifying unit 18 receives a converted character from the converting unit 17 (S110), and specifies an image corresponding to the received converted character (S111). Specifically, the image specifying unit 18 specifies the word ID corresponding to the received converted character from the word DB 14a, and specifies the video information corresponding to the specified word ID from the video DB 14b. Then, the image specifying unit 18 displays each specified image in the image display area of the display unit 13 (S112 and S113).

  Thereafter, the image selection unit 19 receives image selection from the images displayed in the image display area of the display unit 13 by the image specification unit 18 (S114), and outputs information about the received image to the character addition unit 20. (S115).

  Then, the character adding unit 20 specifies the character to be added associated with the image received from the image selecting unit 19, that is, the image selected by the user, from the word DB 14a and the video DB 14b (S116). Thereafter, the character adding unit 20 adds the specified character to the search word input area following the characters already input in the search word input area of the display unit 13 (S117 and S118).

(Concrete example)
Next, a specific example of adding characters will be described. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a specific example. As shown in FIG. 6, the display unit 13 includes a search word input area 13a and an image display area 13b.

  The search word input area 13a is an area for accepting input of a document when a user searches for a word content or an image. In order to search for an image of desired content, the user inputs a search word or document such as the content into the search word input area 13a and searches the corresponding content from the Internet or the like.

  In such a state, the text editing unit 16 accepts “INUGA” as an input to the search word input area 13 a of the display unit 13 via the input unit 12. Here, in FIG. 6, “Inuga” has an underline indicates that the input character has not yet been determined. When there is no underline, the input character is confirmed.

  Subsequently, based on the designated kanji conversion, the conversion unit 17 converts the input character “Inuga” into “Dog” by the user's operation or the like, and confirms the input. Thereafter, the image specifying unit 18 decomposes the input characters into words by morphological analysis or the like, and extracts “dog”. Then, the image specifying unit 18 includes an image of “white small dog”, an image of “black big dog”, and a “sleeping brown dog” as an image accompanied by the word “dog” among the images stored in advance. Is displayed in the image display area 13 b of the display unit 13.

  Here, the words “dog, white, small” are attached to the image of “white little dog”, and the words “dog, black, big” are attached to the image of “black big dog”. The words “dog brown, sleeping” are accompanied by the words “dog, brown, sleep”.

  In a state where each image is displayed in this manner, the image selection unit 19 receives the selection of the “white little dog” image from the user. Then, the character adding unit 20 specifies the word “dog, white, small” attached to the selected “white little dog” image. Then, the character adding unit 20 extracts “white, small” from the specified “dog, white, small” excluding the input character “dog”. Thereafter, the character adding unit 20 adds “white” and “small” after “dog” input to the search word input area 13 a of the display unit 13.

(effect)
As described above, the information processing apparatus 10 according to the first embodiment pays attention to a character when the user inputs a document in order to search for an image or the like. The image included as is displayed to the user. And the information processing apparatus 10 can add the character accompanying the image selected by the user subjectively from the several image, ie, a word, to an input character.

  Therefore, the information processing apparatus 10 can enrich the content of the document created by the user when inputting many words into the search tool before the user searches for the desired content. In addition, since the information processing apparatus 10 can express the user's subjectivity in words, it can assist in creating a document intended by the user.

[Second Embodiment]
Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described so far, the present invention may be implemented in various different forms other than the above-described embodiments. Therefore, different embodiments will be described below.

(Video information)
In the above embodiment, an example has been described in which an image is associated with a character (word), and the image is displayed and selected by the user. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, as video information, in addition to an image, for example, a moving image, a set of one or more still images, and one or more moving images may be associated with characters. In such a case, the information processing apparatus 10 identifies a moving image accompanied by an input character, a set of one or more still images, and one or more moving images and displays them to the user. Note that a representative image can be displayed to the user for the moving image.

(System configuration etc.)
Each component of each illustrated device is functionally conceptual, and does not necessarily need to be the same as the physically illustrated component. In other words, the specific form of distribution / integration of each device is not limited to that shown in the figure, and all or a part thereof may be functionally or physically distributed or arbitrarily distributed in arbitrary units according to various loads or usage conditions. Can be integrated and configured.

  In addition, among the processes described in the present embodiment, all or a part of the processes described as being automatically performed can be manually performed. Further, all or any part of each processing function performed in each device may be realized by a CPU and a program analyzed and executed by the CPU, or may be realized as hardware by wired logic.

(program)
It is also possible to create a character addition program in which processing executed by the information processing apparatus according to the embodiment is described in a language that can be executed by a computer. In this case, when the computer executes the character addition program, the same effect as in the above embodiment can be obtained. Further, the character addition program may be recorded on a computer-readable recording medium, and the character addition program recorded on the recording medium may be read and executed by the computer to execute the same processing as in the above embodiment. Good. An example of a computer that executes a character addition program that realizes the same function as the information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 2 will be described below.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a computer that executes a character addition program. As illustrated in FIG. 7, the computer 1000 includes, for example, a memory 1010, a CPU 1020, a hard disk drive interface 1030, a disk drive interface 1040, a serial port interface 1050, a video adapter 1060, and a network interface 1070. These units are connected by a bus 1080.

  The memory 1010 includes a ROM (Read Only Memory) 1011 and a RAM 1012. The ROM 1011 stores a boot program such as BIOS (Basic Input Output System). The hard disk drive interface 1030 is connected to the hard disk drive 1031. The disk drive interface 1040 is connected to the disk drive 1041. For example, a removable storage medium such as a magnetic disk or an optical disk is inserted into the disk drive 1041. For example, a mouse 1051 and a keyboard 1052 are connected to the serial port interface 1050. For example, a display 1061 is connected to the video adapter 1060.

  Here, as shown in FIG. 7, the hard disk drive 1031 stores, for example, an OS 1091, an application program 1092, a program module 1093, and program data 1094. Each DB described in the above embodiment is stored in the hard disk drive 1031 or the memory 1010, for example.

  The character addition program is stored in, for example, the hard disk drive 1031 as a program module in which a command to be executed by the computer 1000 is described. Specifically, the text editing procedure for executing the same information processing as that of the text editing unit 16 described in the above embodiment, the conversion procedure for executing the same information processing as that of the converting unit 17, and the same as the image specifying unit 18 are performed. There is a program module in which an image specifying procedure for executing information processing, an image selection procedure for executing information processing similar to that of the image selecting unit 19, and a character adding procedure for executing information processing similar to that of the character adding unit 20 are described. And stored in the hard disk drive 1031.

  Data used for information processing by the character addition program is stored as program data, for example, in the hard disk drive 1031. Then, the CPU 1020 reads the program module 1093 and the program data 1094 stored in the hard disk drive 1031 to the RAM 1012 as necessary, and executes the above-described procedures.

  The program module 1093 and the program data 1094 related to the character addition program are not limited to being stored in the hard disk drive 1031. For example, the program module 1093 and the program data 1094 are stored in a removable storage medium and read by the CPU 1020 via the disk drive 1041 or the like. May be issued. Alternatively, the program module and program data relating to the character addition program are stored in another computer connected via a network such as a LAN (Local Area Network) or a WAN (Wide Area Network), and the CPU 1020 is connected via the network interface 1070. May be read.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Information processing apparatus 11 Communication control part 12 Input part 13 Display part 14 Memory | storage part 14a Word DB
14b Video DB
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 15 Control part 16 Text editing part 17 Conversion part 18 Image specification part 19 Image selection part 20 Character addition part 1000 Computer 1010 Memory 1011 ROM
1012 RAM
1020 CPU
1030 Hard disk drive interface 1031 Hard disk drive 1040 Disk drive interface 1041 Disk drive 1050 Serial port interface 1051 Mouse 1052 Keyboard 1060 Video adapter 1061 Display 1070 Network interface 1080 Bus 1091 OS
1092 Application program 1093 Program module 1094 Program data

Claims (5)

A reception step for receiving input of characters in the input area;
Selection for selecting video information associated with the character accepted by the accepting step from a storage unit that associates and stores video information that is a still image or a moving image and at least one character that characterizes the content of the video information Steps,
An adding step of adding characters other than the characters received by the receiving step among the characters associated with the video information selected by the selecting step to the input area following the received characters;
A character addition program that causes a computer to execute. The accepting step accepts characters input in the input area in creating a document,
The character addition program according to claim 1, wherein the selection step selects video information that matches an image of the document from video information stored in the storage unit.   The character addition program according to claim 2, wherein the selection step displays video information associated with the character to the user and accepts selection of video information that matches the image of the document from the user. A character addition method executed by an information processing apparatus,
A reception process for receiving input of characters in the input area;
A selection step of selecting video information associated with the character received in the reception step from a storage unit that stores video information that is a still image or a moving image and at least one character that characterizes the content of the video information in association with each other. When,
Of the characters associated with the video information selected by the selection step, an addition step of adding characters other than the characters accepted by the acceptance step to the input area following the accepted characters;
Character addition method characterized by including. A reception unit for receiving input of characters in the input area;
A selection unit that selects video information associated with the character received by the reception unit from a storage unit that stores video information that is a still image or a moving image and at least one character that characterizes the content of the video information. When,
Of the characters associated with the video information selected by the selection unit, an addition unit that adds characters other than the characters received by the reception unit to the input area following the received characters;
An information processing apparatus comprising:

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