JP3453276B2 - Image display method and program storage medium - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image display method for selectively displaying image data and a title for the image data in an image display on a Web browser, and a program storage medium storing a program for realizing the image display. It is about.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the number of image data displayed on a hypertext page having a hyperlink structure such as an HTML document has been uniquely determined when the page is determined. That is, the amount of data of an image to be displayed on a certain page was decided at the time of designing the page in advance.

[0003]

In the prior art, when displaying a page containing a large number of images, the larger the amount of image data on the page is, the more images are displayed due to data transfer restrictions. There was a problem that it took time to finish displaying.

Further, the user cannot select whether or not to display an image which is considered unnecessary to display, and it is necessary to wait uniformly until all the images are displayed.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method in which the user can adjust the display time by using an arbitrary title to reduce the image data that takes time to display.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the method of the present invention comprises the steps of presenting an interface for inputting a title of an image, and displaying the interface on the Web browser if the title has already been input by the interface. There is a step of skipping the image display in, and displaying the title input from the interface instead of the image.

In the above method, by inputting the title at the stage of presenting the interface for inputting the title, the contents of the title, the size of the corresponding image data, Link information to image data is stored.

Next, when the image is displayed, the image information file is accessed and it is confirmed that the title of the image is recorded, so that the title is displayed instead of the image data.

Furthermore, the method of the present invention comprises the step of presenting an interface which allows the user to select in advance whether or not to skip the image display. At this stage, either the image display mode or the title display mode is selected, and the selected mode is recorded in the selected file. In the step of displaying the title, the mode information recorded in the selected file is referred to, and in the title display mode, the title is displayed instead of the image for the image whose title has been input.

Since the image display for the image in which the title is input is skipped, high-speed display is possible.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a system configuration example for implementing the present invention.

In the figure, 10 is a server device for providing image data, 11 is a title input means, 12 is a title display means, 13
Is an image information file, 14 is a selection file, and 15 is a WW
W (Worle Wide Web) server, 20 is a client personal computer (client PC), 21 is W
eb browser, 22 is a title input interface for inputting a title, 23 is a selection interface for selecting an image display mode for displaying an image or a title display mode for displaying a title, 30 is a network, 40 is a hypertext transfer protocol ( http).

The user of the client PC 20 is
A page including image data is requested from the browser 21 to the WWW server 15 via the network 30, and the page sent from the WWW server 15 is displayed by the Web browser 21.

When the user inputs a title to the image through the title input interface 22 using a keyboard or the like,
The title is sent to the server device 10, and the title input means 11
Writes the title sent from the client PC 20 in the image information file 13.

Further, the user can select the selection interface 2
The standard image display mode or the title display mode in which the image display is skipped can be selected by 3. The display mode selection information is written in the selection file 14 of the server device 10.

The WWW server 15 has a Web browser 21
When sending the page information in response to the request from the user, the title display means 12 refers to the selection file 14 and checks whether the image display mode or the title display mode is set. When in the image display mode, normal image display is performed by the WWW server 15, and when in the title display mode,
The title attached to the image is read from the image information file 13, edited so that the title is displayed instead of the image, and the display information is transferred.

As a result, the Web browser 21 displays the title instead of the image for the image for which the title has already been input, and performs high-speed display. FIG. 2 shows a display example of a page when the title display mode is selected.

In the image display page of FIG. 2, since image A and image D have no title, image data are displayed. Since the titles have been input for the images B and C, the titles are displayed instead of the image data, and high-speed display is possible by this amount.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the data structure of the image information file. The image information file 13 shown in FIG.
As shown in, the linkage information between the title (“test” in this example) input from the title input interface 22, the image size (20 k in this example), and the image data such as the file name of the image file (in this example Then img
Information such as e1) is stored in a text format.

The title inputting means 11 and the writing of the title to the image information file 13 may be performed by the page information provider on the server device 10 instead of the notification from the client PC 20.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the data structure of the selected file. The selection file 14 shown in FIG. 1 stores information on whether the image display mode or the title display mode is currently selected by inputting mode selection information from the selection interface 23. Also,
When performing the processing corresponding to the user, the user information is also registered. The image information file 13 and the selection file 14 may be physically configured as one file.

FIG. 5 shows the HT provided as page information.
It is a figure which shows the relationship between ML document, an image information file, and an image file. HTML document 5 sent as page information
The description of tags such as 0 may be the same as the conventional one, and there is no particular difference. As shown in FIG. 5, the image file 51 / image information file 13 is linked so that the image / title can be called in the portion of the HTML document 50 where the image or title is displayed. The image file 51 is linked from the entry of the title of the image information file 13. In this example, where there is a description for displaying an image in CGI or HTML, the access destination of the image file 51 or the image information file 13 is determined by the if-then rule depending on the presence or absence of the title described in the image information file 13. It is determined.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of the title input interface. On the Web browser 21 of FIG. 1, FIG. 6 (A)
It is assumed that the standard screen including the image A and the image B as shown in is displayed. When the user of the client PC 20 clicks the image A with a pointing device such as a mouse, the title input interface 22 operates and the screen shown in FIG.
A title input box 70 as shown in (B) is displayed. Here, if a title for the image A such as "Photo of Mt. Fuji" is entered in the title input box 70 in text format, this information is sent to the server device 10 and written in the image information file 13, and thereafter. , This page information is displayed in the title display mode.
As shown in (C), for the image A, the title "Photo of Mt. Fuji" is displayed instead of the image data of the image.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a display mode selection interface. To select the display mode, the Web browser 21 calls the selection interface 23 with a menu or icon. Selection interface 23
Then, a display mode selection screen as shown in FIG. 7 is displayed, and either "image display" or "title display" is clicked with a pointing device such as a mouse. This information is sent to the server device 10 and written in the selection file 14.

The overall processing flow will be described below. The flow of title input processing is as follows. 1. Select the image for which you want to enter a title (Fig. 6
(See (A)).

2. The title is input through the title input interface 22 (see FIG. 6B). 3. The title is linked to the image data and stored in the image information file 13 (see FIGS. 3 and 5).

The flow of processing for selecting the display mode is as follows. 1. The display mode of "image display" or "title display" is input through the selection interface 23 (see FIG. 7).

2. The selected display mode is stored in the selection file 14 (see FIG. 4). Next, the flow of image / title display processing will be described with reference to FIG. First, in step S1, it is determined whether the display mode is image display or title display by referring to the selection file 14. In the case of the image display mode, the image data is accessed (S2), the image data is sent to the Web browser 21 and displayed (S3), and whether or not there is an image to be displayed on the corresponding page while referring to the image database. It is determined (S4) and the image display is repeated. The processing of steps S2 to S4 described above is the same as the conventional one. When all the relevant images have been displayed, the process proceeds to step S10, and the display ends.

In the case of the title display mode, in step S5, the image information file 13 is referred to, and it is determined whether or not a title is input for each image to be displayed. If no title has been entered for the image, the image data is accessed (S6), and the image data is retrieved by the Web browser 2
It is sent to 1 and displayed (S8). When the title is input, the title information of the image information file 13 is accessed (S7), and the title is sent to the Web browser 21 and displayed instead of the image (S8). Next, referring to the image database, it is determined whether or not there is an image to be displayed on the corresponding page (S9). If there is an image to be displayed, the process returns to step S5 and the same process is repeated. When steps S5 to S8 have been repeated for the number of images to be displayed, the process proceeds to step S10 to end the display.

[0030]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Instead of displaying an image that takes a long time to display, a title representing the content of the image can be selectively displayed, and the display time can be adjusted on the user side.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a system configuration for implementing the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a display example of a page when a title display mode is selected.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a data structure of an image information file.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a data structure of a selected file.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a relationship between an HTML document, an image information file, and an image file.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a title input interface.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a display mode selection interface.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a flow of image / title display processing.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Server device 11 Title input means 12 Title display means 13 Image information file 14 Selected file 15 WWW server 20 Client PC 21 Web browser 22 Title input interface 23 Selection interface 30 network 40 Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. An image display method for displaying an image on a web browser , wherein the image displayed on the web browser is displayed on the web browser.
A step of presenting an interface for inputting the title of the image on a web browser as designated by the user of the user; a step of storing the title of the image input by the interface for inputting the title of the image; Presenting a display mode selection interface of either the image display mode or the title display mode according to designation by the user of the browser; storing the display mode selected through the selection interface; When the image display mode is selected when displaying an image on the screen, the step of accessing all the image data of the display target by displaying the image data of the display target and the title when displaying the image on the Web browser If the display mode is selected, check whether a title has been entered for each image to be displayed. If the title is not entered, the image data to be displayed is accessed and the image is displayed. If the title is entered, the title information is accessed and the title is displayed instead of the image. An image display method comprising: 2. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for displaying an image on a Web browser, the image displayed on the Web browser, the Web Bra
A procedure of presenting an interface for inputting the title of the image on a Web browser as designated by the user of the user, a procedure of storing the title of the image input by the interface for inputting the title of the image, and A procedure of presenting a selection interface of a display mode of either an image display mode or a title display mode designated by the user of the browser, a procedure of storing the display mode selected through the selection interface, If the image display mode is selected when displaying an image on the screen, the procedure for accessing the image data to be displayed and displaying all images to be displayed, and the title when displaying the image on the Web browser If the display mode is selected, check whether a title has been entered for each image to be displayed. If the title is not entered, the image data to be displayed is accessed and the image is displayed. If the title is entered, the title information is accessed and the title is displayed instead of the image. A program storage medium that stores a program that causes a computer to execute.