JP4298302B2 - Image display program - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an image display program for displaying a list of image data contained in a plurality of document data.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Document data including image data includes, for example, an electronic design gazette (hereinafter referred to as “design gazette data”) and an electronic trademark gazette (hereinafter referred to as “trademark gazette data”).
[0003]
The design gazette data issued by the Patent Office includes design image data, and the trademark gazette data includes trademark image data.
[0004]
The design gazette data is recorded on a CD-ROM. This CD-ROM includes a viewer.
[0005]
The user arbitrarily selects design gazette data from the table of contents regarding the bibliographic items of the searched design gazette data, and confirms the contents.
[0006]
Similarly, when displaying the image data included in the design gazette data, it is necessary to arbitrarily select the design gazette data from the table of contents regarding the bibliographic items of the design gazette data and display the image data.
[0007]
The same applies to trademark publication data.
[0008]
Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-162015) describes an apparatus for displaying graphic data of a patent gazette.
[0009]
Patent Document 2 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-276474) describes an apparatus that displays a plurality of representative images retrieved from a database.
[0010]
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-175533 describes an apparatus that extracts image data corresponding to a search condition and displays a list.
[0011]
[Patent Document 1]
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-162015
[Patent Document 2]
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-276474
[Patent Document 3]
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-175533
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
When the user wants to compare the image data included in the design gazette data, it is necessary to repeat the procedure of displaying the table of contents regarding the bibliographic items of the design gazette data, selecting the design gazette data, and confirming the image data as described above. In addition, the number of design publication data is enormous, and the number of times that comparison of image data is required increases.
[0015]
Therefore, in the conventional procedure for displaying image data by the viewer, the user's labor for comparing the image data included in the design gazette data is increased.
[0016]
There is a similar problem with the display of trademark publication data.
[0017]
In Patent Document 1, a plurality of graphic data included in one patent gazette are displayed as a list, but graphic data included in different patent gazettes are not displayed as a list.
[0018]
In Patent Documents 2 and 3, a list of searched images is displayed. In particular, in Patent Document 2, a representative image is displayed.
[0019]
However, in Patent Documents 2 and 3, no consideration is given to the comparison work of the image data by the user after the list is displayed.
[0020]
The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides an image display program that displays a list of image data included in a plurality of document data and supports a user's comparison of image data. For the purpose.
[0021]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
Specific means taken for realizing the present invention will be described below.
[0024]
An image display program according to a first aspect of the invention includes a computer, including at least one image data, wherein a representative tag is attached to representative image data of the image data, and a perspective view tag is attached to the perspective view of the image data. means for reading a plurality of design Gazette data are from the recording means, to select the image data that has been assigned from a plurality of design Gazette data of the representative tag, representative display means for displaying a list of the plurality of image data selected, perspective from the user When a figure display command is received, a perspective view display means for selecting image data with a perspective view tag from a plurality of design gazette data and displaying a list of the selected plurality of image data; Reorder command is accepted, and multiple image data displayed in the list are sorted. Rearranging display means for displaying in Tsu arrangement, after the list display by the perspective view display unit, when receiving a designation of document image display instruction and the image data from the user, the design publication data including the specified image data has been When the document display command and the designation of the image data are received from the user after the list display by the document image display means and the perspective view display means for displaying all the included image data as a list, the designated image data is displayed. All the data included in the design gazette data included are displayed and function as document display means for displaying a button for returning to the list display by the perspective view display means .
[0025]
The perspective view display means may display a list of undisplayed image data among a plurality of image data with a perspective view tag when a predetermined time elapses when a page turning command is received from the user. Good.
The representative display means may display a list of undisplayed image data among a plurality of image data to which a representative tag is attached when a page turning command is received from the user every time a predetermined time elapses.
[0026]
In the above invention , the plurality of design gazette data includes bibliographic data, and the computer selects bibliographic data corresponding to the image data displayed at the position indicated by the pointing device and displays it on the subwindow. It may be functional.
[0029]
By applying the present invention, it becomes easy to compare image data included in a plurality of design gazette data.
[0030]
By using the image display program or a recording medium storing the program, functions as the respective means can be easily added to a computer, a computer system, a server, and a client that do not have the above functions. be able to.
[0031]
By providing each means of the present invention in the image display system, the same effect can be obtained.
[0032]
By applying the image display program of the present invention or a recording medium storing the program to a computer, an image display method for easily performing comparison work of image data included in a plurality of document data is executed on the computer. Is done.
[0033]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
[0034]
In the following drawings, the same portions are denoted by the same reference numerals and the description thereof will be omitted or briefly described, and only different portions will be described in detail.
[0035]
In the present embodiment, display of design gazette data will be described as an example.
[0036]
However, the same configuration and operation as in the present embodiment can be similarly applied to other gazette data including patents, utility models, trademarks, and other document data including various image data.
[0037]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of the image display system according to the present embodiment.
[0038]
The image display system 1 includes a recording device 2. For example, an internal memory or a hard disk is used as the recording device 2.
[0039]
A plurality of design gazette data 31 to 3n are recorded in the recording device 2. The plurality of design publication data 31 to 3n may be data obtained as a result of a search based on a search condition from a user.
[0040]
The plurality of design gazette data 31 to 3n includes at least one image data and bibliographic data indicating bibliographic items.
[0041]
Of the image data included in each of the design publication data 31 to 3n, a representative tag is attached to the image data related to the representative view, and a perspective view tag is attached to the image data related to the perspective view. In some cases, the image data related to the representative view and the image data related to the perspective view are the same.
[0042]
For design publication data that does not include image data with a representative tag, the image data with the smallest figure number may be used as a representative figure, or image data with a perspective view tag may be used as a representative figure.
[0043]
The image display system 1 reads and executes the image display program 5 recorded on the recording medium 4.
[0044]
When the image display program 5 is read and executed by the image display system 1, the reading unit 5a, the setting receiving unit 5b, the representative display unit 5c, the perspective view display unit 5d, the rearrangement display unit 5e, the bibliographic display unit 5f, Functions as a document image display unit 5g, a document display unit 5h, and a thumbnail unit 5i are realized.
[0045]
In addition, you may implement | achieve each component 5a-5i of the image display system 1 shown in this FIG. 1 with a hardware.
[0046]
The reading unit 5 a reads a plurality of design gazette data 31 to 3 n recorded in the recording device 2.
[0047]
The setting reception unit 5b displays a table of contents list screen and receives user settings performed on the table of contents list screen. The user settings include, for example, display of all documents, selection of document data to be displayed, number of image data to be displayed on one screen, setting of whether to display a representative diagram or a perspective view, and the like.
[0048]
The representative display unit 5c selects image data with a representative tag from all the plurality of design publication data 31 to 3n or design publication data selected on the table of contents list screen by the user according to the user setting.
[0049]
When there is no image data with a representative tag in the design gazette data, the representative display unit 5c uses the image data with the smallest figure number or the perspective view tag according to the user setting instead of the image data with the representative tag. Select the attached image data.
[0050]
Then, the representative display unit 5c displays a representative list screen in which the selected image data is arranged on the screen.
[0051]
The perspective view display unit 5d selects image data to which a perspective view tag is attached from all the plurality of design publication data 31 to 3n or design publication data selected on the table of contents list screen by the user according to user settings. To do.
[0052]
Then, the perspective view display unit 5d displays a perspective view list screen in which the selected image data is arranged on the screen.
[0053]
When the page display command is received from the user, the representative display unit 5c and the perspective view display unit 5d display a list of undisplayed image data among the selected image data every time a predetermined time elapses. In the present embodiment, the list display of undisplayed image data is automatically performed every time a predetermined time elapses, but may be performed when a page feed command is received from the user.
[0054]
The number of image data displayed on one screen follows the user setting accepted from the table of contents list screen. The size of the displayed image data is automatically changed to the optimum size from the number of image data displayed on one screen.
[0055]
The rearrangement display unit 5e receives a rearrangement command for rearranging the displayed image data.
[0056]
The rearrangement display unit 5e changes the arrangement of the image data displayed as a list in accordance with the rearrangement command.
[0057]
For example, by dragging the image data to be moved with the mouse and releasing it at the destination, the positions of the image data to be moved and the image data at the destination are switched.
[0058]
Also, the image data to be compared is designated with a bookmark tag, and the image data with the bookmark tag is displayed together by instructing rearrangement.
[0059]
The bibliographic display unit 5f detects the position indicated by the pointing device, detects the document data including the image data displayed at the specified position, and displays the bibliographic data included in the detected document data in a tool tip (subwindow). indicate.
[0060]
When receiving a document image display command and designation of image data from the user, the document image display unit 5g arranges all image data included in the same document data as the designated image data on the screen. Display the bibliographic image list screen.
[0061]
When the document display unit 5h receives a document display command and designation of image data from the user, the document display unit 5h displays a document display screen showing all data included in the document data including the designated image data.
[0062]
When receiving a thumbnail command and designation of image data from the user, the thumbnail unit 5i displays a thumbnail screen for image data included in the same document data as the designated image data. The thumbnail unit 5i performs conversion such as enlargement, reduction, rotation, etc. of the image data in accordance with a user instruction on the thumbnail screen, and displays the converted image data.
[0063]
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of transition from the table of contents list screen to the perspective view list screen. The same applies to the transition from the table of contents list screen to the representative list screen.
[0064]
On the table of contents list screen 6, a setting unit 6a for displaying all documents, a selection receiving unit 6b for document data to be displayed, a setting receiving unit 6c for the number of image data to be displayed on the screen, a representative diagram display setting unit 6d, and a perspective view There is a figure display setting unit 6e.
[0065]
In the present embodiment, for example, it is assumed that the user selects design gazette data to be displayed, sets eight image data to be displayed on one screen, and displays a perspective view.
[0066]
On the perspective view list screen 7, image data with a perspective view tag is selected from the design gazette data selected on the table of contents list screen 6 and displayed.
[0067]
In this embodiment, a set of image data that can be displayed on one screen is handled as one page. The image display system 1 develops image data for three pages on a memory and smoothly executes page control (next page display, previous page display, etc.).
[0068]
When the mouse pointer is moved on the image data on the perspective view list screen 7, the bibliographic data of the design gazette data is displayed on the tool tip 7a. The ID of the design gazette data is displayed below each displayed image data.
[0069]
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of transition from the perspective view list screen 7 to the perspective view list screen 8 after the rearrangement of the image data.
[0070]
The user clicks the ID under the image data to be rearranged among the image data displayed on the perspective view list screen 7 with the mouse. Then, the color of the clicked ID is changed, and a bookmark tag indicating a rearrangement target is attached to the image data indicated by the clicked ID.
[0071]
The user clicks “Display” on the menu bar and clicks “Sort” on the pull-down menu. Then, the image data with the bookmark tag is displayed in a collected state.
[0072]
Also, the user drags the image data to be moved with the mouse and releases it at the destination. Then, the image data to be moved and the image data displayed at the movement destination are switched.
[0073]
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a perspective view list screen 7 before and after receiving a page feed command.
[0074]
First, an “automatic page feed” button is displayed on the menu bar of the perspective view list screen 7.
[0075]
When setting the automatic page feed, the user clicks “display” on the menu bar and clicks the “auto page feed” menu in the pull-down menu, or clicks the “auto page feed” button on the menu bar.
[0076]
As a result, the page of the image data is switched at the set interval, and the “automatic page feed” button on the menu bar is changed to the “automatic page feed stop” button.
[0077]
On the other hand, when the setting is changed from automatic page feed to automatic page stop, the user clicks “View” in the menu bar and clicks the “Auto page stop” menu in the pull-down menu or on the menu bar. Click the “Auto page stop” button.
[0078]
As a result, automatic page feed is stopped on the displayed page, and the “automatic page feed stop” button on the menu bar is changed to an “automatic page feed” button.
[0079]
Again, when the user clicks “View” on the menu bar and clicks the “Auto Page” menu in the pull-down menu, or clicks the “Auto Page” button on the menu bar, it is displayed now. Automatic page feed resumes from the current page.
[0080]
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a transition from the perspective view list screen 7 to the document image display screen 9.
[0081]
When the mouse pointer is placed on any image data in the perspective view list drawing 7 and the right button of the mouse is clicked, a pull-down menu 7b is displayed.
[0082]
Clicking on “Literature image display” from the pull-down menu 7b displays a literature image display screen 9 that displays all the image data included in the same design gazette data as the designated image data.
[0083]
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a document display screen.
[0084]
When a “document display” is clicked from the pull-down menu 7b of the perspective view list screen 7 shown in FIG. 5, the document display screen 10 that displays all data included in the design gazette data including the designated image data is displayed. Is displayed. When the list display button 10a is pressed in the document data display screen, the perspective view list screen 7 is displayed again.
[0085]
FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a thumbnail screen.
[0086]
When “thumbnail display” is clicked from the pull-down menu 7b of the perspective view list screen 7 shown in FIG. 5, the thumbnail screen 11 of the image data included in the same design gazette data as the designated image data is displayed. Is done.
[0087]
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the image display system 1 according to the present embodiment.
[0088]
In step S <b> 1, the reading unit 5 a reads design gazette data recorded in the recording device 2. The design gazette data read out may be design gazette data extracted by the search.
[0089]
In step S <b> 2, the setting reception unit 5 b displays the table of contents list screen 6, and displays image data for all of the read design gazette data or displays image data of design gazette data selected by the user. User settings such as the number of image data to be displayed on one screen, the display of a representative diagram, or the display of a perspective view are accepted.
[0090]
In step S3, the representative display unit 5c and the perspective view display unit 5d determine which of the display of the representative view or the display of the perspective view is set.
[0091]
When the representative map display is set, in step S4, the representative display unit 5c selects and displays the image data with the representative tag attached from the design gazette data according to the setting.
[0092]
When the perspective view display is set, in step S5, the perspective view display unit 5d selects and displays the image data with the perspective view tag from the design gazette data according to the setting.
[0093]
In step S6, the image display system 1 accepts a user operation.
[0094]
When the end instruction is received, the processing of the image display system 1 ends.
[0095]
If a change instruction for the type of image data to be displayed is received, the process returns to step S3.
[0096]
When the rearrangement instruction is received, in step S7, the rearrangement display unit 5e changes the arrangement of the image data in accordance with the user instruction. For example, only image data designated by the user is collected and displayed. For example, the display positions of two image data designated by the user are switched.
[0097]
When the page feed command or the page feed stop command is received, in step S8, the representative display unit 5c or the perspective view display unit 5d changes the page to be displayed every time a predetermined period elapses or stops changing the page.
[0098]
If there is a mouse pointer on the image data, in step S9, the bibliographic display unit 5f displays bibliographic data included in the same design publication data as the image data designated by the mouse pointer.
[0099]
When a document image display command and designation of image data are received, in step S10, the document image display unit 5g displays a list of all image data included in the same design publication data as the designated image data. .
[0100]
When a document display command and designation of image data are received, in step S11, the document display unit 5h displays all data included in the same design gazette data as the designated image data.
[0101]
When the thumbnail command and the designation of the image data are received, in step S12, the thumbnail unit 5i displays a thumbnail screen for the image data included in the same design publication data as the designated image data, and the user's Convert image data according to the instructions.
[0102]
After the processes in steps S7 to S12 are completed, the process returns to step S6.
[0103]
In the present embodiment described above, image data is displayed for comparison with respect to a plurality of design gazette data. Further, the comparison of the image data can be performed in a representative view or a perspective view.
[0104]
In the present embodiment, the user can freely rearrange the list display of the image data by attaching a bookmark tag.
[0105]
In the present embodiment, the number of image data to be displayed on one screen can be freely set by the user.
[0106]
Therefore, the user can easily perform comparison work on the image data included in the plurality of design gazette data.
[0107]
Further, in the present embodiment, when the image data to be displayed is larger than the number that can be displayed in one screen, the pages are switched at a fixed timing.
[0108]
Therefore, when the number of image data to be compared is large, the user's comparison work is reduced.
[0109]
In the present embodiment, bibliographic data related to image data, other image data included in the same design gazette data as the image data, and the like are displayed by a simple operation.
[0110]
Therefore, the user can easily perform the comparison work of the design gazette data using various data included in the plurality of design gazette data.
[0111]
Note that the components included in the image display system 1 according to the present embodiment may be rearranged as long as the same operation can be realized, or the components may be freely combined. Each component may be freely divided.
[0112]
Further, the image display system 1 according to the present embodiment may be configured by a plurality of computers, and the image display program 5 may be distributed and disposed in the plurality of computers, and may execute processing while cooperating with each other.
[0113]
The image display program 5 according to the present embodiment can be applied to a computer by writing to a recording medium 4 such as a magnetic disk (flexible disk, hard disk, etc.), optical disk (CD-ROM, DVD, etc.), semiconductor memory, or the like. The image display program 5 can also be transmitted to a computer and applied to a computer. The computer implements the above functions by reading the image display program 5 and controlling the operation by the image display program 5.
[0114]
【The invention's effect】
In the present invention described in detail above, a user can easily perform a comparison operation of image data included in a plurality of design gazette data.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of an image display system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a transition from a table of contents list screen to a perspective view list screen.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a transition from a perspective view list screen to a perspective view list screen after rearrangement of image data.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a perspective view list screen before and after receiving a page feed command.
5 is a diagram showing an example of a transition from a perspective view list screen 7 to a document image display screen 9. FIG.
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a document display screen.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a thumbnail screen.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the image display system according to the embodiment.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Image display system 2 ... Recording apparatus 31-3n ... Design gazette data 4 ... Recording medium 5 ... Image display program 5a ... Reading part 5b ... Setting reception part 5c ... Representative display part 5d ... Perspective view display part 5e ... Rearrangement display Section 5f ... Bibliographic display section 5g ... Document image display section 5h ... Document display section 5i ... Thumbnail section

Claims (4)

Computer
A plurality of design gazette data including at least one image data and having a representative tag attached to a representative image data of the image data and a perspective view tag attached to a perspective view of the image data are recorded from a recording unit. Means for reading,
Representative display means for selecting image data to which the representative tag is attached from the plurality of design publication data, and displaying a list of the selected plurality of image data;
A perspective view display unit that, when receiving a perspective view display command from a user, selects image data to which the perspective view tag is attached from the plurality of design publication data, and displays a list of the selected plurality of image data;
Reordering display means for accepting a rearrangement command for list display from the user and displaying a plurality of image data displayed in a list in an arrangement according to the rearrangement command ;
When a document image display command and designation of image data are received from the user after the list is displayed by the perspective view display means, all image data included in the design gazette data including the designated image data is displayed. Document image display means for displaying a list,
When a document display command and designation of image data are received from the user after the list is displayed by the perspective view display means, all data included in the design gazette data including the designated image data is displayed. An image display program for functioning as a document display means for displaying a button for returning to the list display by the perspective view display means . The image display program according to claim 1,
When the page display command is received from the user, the perspective view display means displays a list of undisplayed image data among a plurality of image data attached with the perspective view tag every predetermined time. An image display program characterized by In the image display program according to claim 1 or 2,
Each of the plurality of design gazette data includes bibliographic data,
Said computer further
An image display program for selecting bibliographic data corresponding to the image data displayed at the pointing position of the pointing device and functioning as a means for displaying on the subwindow. The image display program according to any one of claims 1 to 3 ,
The representative display means displays a list of undisplayed image data among a plurality of image data with the representative tag when a predetermined time elapses when a page feed command is received from the user. An image display program.

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