JP4402822B2 - Image display apparatus and method, and recording medium recording image display program - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an image display apparatus for receiving and displaying a digital image whose display area is larger than a display screen, and specifically, for example, attached to a facsimile image from a telephone network and an electronic mail from the Internet at a mobile telephone terminal. The present invention relates to an image display apparatus and method for receiving an electronic image and displaying it on a display screen of a mobile telephone terminal, and a recording medium on which an image display program is recorded.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Since an image is normally displayed as one file (one sheet), it takes time to download, and conventionally, the switching direction between a plurality of screens is constant.
[0003]
When trying to display such an image on a mobile phone, the display screen of the mobile phone is small, so large data such as FAX or large image data sent by e-mail can be viewed on the mobile phone. Can not.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
As described above, since the display screen of the mobile phone is small, there is a problem that large data such as FAX and large image data sent by e-mail cannot be viewed.
[0005]
In addition, since the screen switching direction is constant, there is a problem that the screen cannot be switched freely in any direction.
[0006]
The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object of the present invention is to display an image that is displayed so that a display area can be freely viewed on a small display screen even if the display data is larger than the display screen. An object of the present invention is to provide a recording medium on which an apparatus and method and an image display program are recorded.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
To achieve the above object, the present invention is claimed in claim 1, the display screen of the terminal, an image display apparatus for displaying a large digital images than the display screen, an image receiving means for receiving the digital image , adjacent digital image thus received, an image dividing means for dividing into a plurality of sub-images of size which can be displayed on the display screen, in each of each of the plurality of sub-images of said plurality of divided sub-images Link image storage means for storing in a file having a file name including position information that can uniquely identify the positional relationship between the sub image and the file name including the position information of each of the plurality of sub images. An e-mail sender that sends to the terminal an e-mail that describes the URL of the terminal Web page, and generating means for generating the terminal Web page set as the destination When reads the sub image stored in the destination requested by the terminal file, and summarized in that and a display control means for displaying on said terminal.
[0008]
In the present invention according to claim 1, when the received digital image is larger than the display screen, the digital image is divided into a plurality of sub-images that can be displayed on the display screen, and the plurality of sub-images are divided. Is stored together with position information, and each of the accumulated sub-images is appropriately switched and displayed on the display screen based on the position information. For example, a large image of FAX or e-mail can be viewed anytime and anywhere on a small display screen of a mobile phone terminal.
[0010]
Further, in the present invention according to claim 1, by viewing with the switching display of the plurality of sub-images by following the links of each Web page, FAX Ya anytime, anywhere, for example, by a small display screen of the mobile telephone terminal You can view large images of e-mails.
[0011]
Further, the present invention described in claim 2 is the present invention described in claim 1 , wherein the image receiving means includes a facsimile receiving means connected to a telephone network and receiving a facsimile image transmitted from the telephone network. Is the gist.
[0012]
In the present invention of claim 2, since a facsimile image transmitted from the telephone network is received as an input image, a large image such as a facsimile image can be viewed anytime and anywhere on a small display screen of a mobile telephone terminal, for example. Can do.
[0013]
A third aspect of the present invention is the electronic mail receiving means according to the first or second aspect, wherein the image receiving means is connected to the Internet and receives a digital image attached to an electronic mail from the Internet. It is summarized as having.
[0014]
In the present invention according to claim 3, in order to receive a digital image attached to an e-mail from the Internet, a large image such as an e-mail image can be viewed anytime and anywhere on a small display screen of a mobile phone terminal, for example. can do.
[0015]
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image display method for displaying a digital image larger than the display screen on a display screen of a terminal , wherein the image display device receives the digital image ; , adjacent digital image thus received, an image dividing step of dividing into a plurality of sub-images of size which can be displayed on the display screen, each of the divided plurality of sub-images in each of the plurality of sub-images An image storage step of storing in a file having a file name including position information that can uniquely identify a positional relationship between the sub image and a file name including the position information of each of the plurality of sub images; A generation step of generating a terminal Web page set as a destination and an electronic mail that describes the URL of the terminal Web page are transmitted to the terminal. A mail sending step reads out the sub image stored to the requested destination file from the terminal, and the gist to carry out a display control step of displaying on said terminal.
[0016]
In this invention of Claim 4 , when the received digital image is larger than a display screen, this digital image is divided | segmented into several subimages of the size which can be displayed on a display screen, These several subimages Is stored together with position information, and each of the accumulated sub-images is appropriately switched and displayed on the display screen based on the position information. For example, a large image of FAX or e-mail can be viewed anytime and anywhere on a small display screen of a mobile phone terminal.
[0018]
Further, in the present invention according to claim 4, by viewing with the switching display of the plurality of sub-images by following the links of each Web page, FAX Ya anytime, anywhere, for example, by a small display screen of the mobile telephone terminal You can view large images of e-mails.
[0019]
The gist of the present invention described in claim 5 is that, in the present invention described in claim 4 , the image receiving step receives a facsimile image transmitted from a telephone network.
[0020]
In the present invention according to claim 5, in order to receive a facsimile image transmitted from the telephone network as an input image, a large image such as a facsimile image can be viewed anytime and anywhere on a small display screen of a mobile telephone terminal, for example. Can do.
[0021]
The present invention described in claim 6 is characterized in that, in the present invention described in claim 4 or 5 , the image receiving step receives a digital image attached to an e-mail from the Internet.
[0022]
In the present invention according to claim 6, in order to receive a digital image attached to an e-mail from the Internet, a large image such as an e-mail image can be viewed anytime and anywhere on a small display screen of a mobile phone terminal, for example. can do.
[0023]
Further, the present invention according to claim 7 is a recording medium in which an image display program for displaying a digital image larger than the display screen is recorded on a display screen of a terminal , wherein the image is received by a computer. a receiving step, a digital image thus received, the image dividing step of dividing into a plurality of sub-images that can be displayed size on the display screen, each of the divided plurality of sub-images of said plurality of sub-images An image storage step of storing in a file having a file name including position information that can uniquely identify a positional relationship between adjacent sub-images, and a file name including the position information of each of the plurality of sub-images An e-mail describing the URL of the terminal Web page and a generating step for generating a Web page for the terminal set as a link destination , An electronic mail transmitting step of transmitting to the terminal, reads out the sub-images stored in the destination requested by the terminal file, an image display program for executing a display control step of displaying on said terminal The gist is to record.
[0024]
In this invention of Claim 7 , when the received digital image is larger than a display screen, this digital image is divided | segmented into several subimages of the size which can be displayed on a display screen, These several subimages Is recorded together with the position information, and an image display program for appropriately switching and displaying each of the accumulated sub-images on the display screen based on the position information is recorded on the recording medium. Distribution can be improved.
[0026]
In the present invention described in claim 7 , the flowability of the recording medium can be improved by using the recording medium.
[0027]
The invention according to claim 8 is the gist of the invention according to claim 7 , wherein the image receiving step records an image display program for receiving a facsimile image transmitted from a telephone network on a recording medium. To do.
[0028]
In the present invention described in claim 8, since the image display program for receiving the facsimile image transmitted from the telephone network as the input image is recorded on the recording medium, the distribution property can be improved by using the recording medium. Can be increased.
[0029]
Furthermore, in the present invention described in claim 9, in the present invention described in claim 7 or 8 , in the image receiving step , an image display program for receiving a digital image attached to an electronic mail from the Internet is recorded on a recording medium. The gist is to do.
[0030]
In the present invention described in claim 9 , since the image display program for receiving the digital image attached to the e-mail from the Internet is recorded on the recording medium, the distribution property can be improved by using the recording medium. Can be increased.
[0031]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the image display device of the present embodiment is configured as a FAX image conversion / storage server 1 for mobile phone users, and this FAX image conversion / storage server 1 is a mobile communication company GW3. For example, the mobile phone 5 is connected to an i-mode mobile phone 5 via the Internet, is connected to the data terminal 9 via the Internet 7, and is further connected to the facsimile machine 13 via the telephone network 11.
[0032]
The FAX image conversion / accumulation server 1 is connected to the telephone network 11 and receives FAX data transmitted from the facsimile machine 13 via the telephone network 11, and the received FAX data is converted into, for example, TIFF-F. A FAX receiving unit 21 that generates an electronic image and an Internet 7 that is connected to the Internet 7 and receives an E-mail transmitted from the data terminal 9 via the Internet 7. The electronic image and the electronic image attached to the electronic mail from the electronic mail receiving unit 23 are supplied to the image converting unit 25.
[0033]
The image conversion unit 25 converts the electronic images from the FAX reception unit 21 and the email reception unit 23 into images that can be displayed on the Web interface of the mobile phone 5, and displays the converted images on the mobile phone 5. The image is divided into a plurality of sub-images that can be displayed on the screen, and a file name is assigned to each sub-image so that the position of each sub-image can be clearly identified.
[0034]
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the divided sub-images and their file names. As shown in the figure, one electronic image from the FAX receiving unit 21 or the e-mail receiving unit 23 is divided into A, B, C, and D in the horizontal direction, and 1, 2, 3, and 4 in the vertical direction. When divided, the horizontal and vertical division codes corresponding to the sub-images divided so as to correspond to the intersections thus divided are attached, and “A-1” “B” as shown in the figure. File names such as “−1”, “C-1”, “D-1”, “A-2”, “B-2”... “D-4” are assigned to each sub-image.
[0035]
The plurality of divided sub-images are position information, that is, position information that can uniquely identify the positional relationship between the sub-images adjacent to each other in the vertical and horizontal directions in each sub-image. The image information is stored in the image storage unit 27 together with position information generated with the assigned file name. That is, the file names such as “A-1”... “D-4” described with reference to FIG. 2 represent the position of each sub-image. Since the positional relationship with each adjacent sub-image can be identified, the position information of each sub-image is generated from this file name.
[0036]
As described above, the plurality of sub-images stored together with the position information in the image storage unit 27 are supplied to the display processing unit 29 and linked to each of the sub-images based on the position information. Generate and manage pages. As a result, the user can switch between a plurality of sub-images by following this link, thereby allowing the entire image to be viewed.
[0037]
This linking rule determines the position from the file name, and generates the direction of the link in consideration of the stored lower right position information. Specifically, for example, in the case of the sub-image A-1, it can be determined that the position of the displayed image is A, which is the leftmost position, and since it is 1, it is the highest position. Therefore, the right, lower, and right diagonally lower links can be generated from this position. In the case of the sub-image A-4, the position of the displayed image is A, taking into account that the stored lower-right sub-image is “D-4”. Since it is 4, it can be determined that it is the lowest position. Accordingly, the upper, right, and diagonally upper right links can be generated from this position.
[0038]
The mobile phone web page linked in this way is supplied to the e-mail transmission unit 31, and the e-mail transmission unit 31 notifies the user's mobile phone 5 of the URL of the web page via the mobile communication company GW3. Is done. The user can access each sub-image with this URL and browse the entire image while following the link.
[0039]
Next, the operation of the above-described embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. When the FAX image conversion / storage server 1 receives a FAX document from the facsimile 13 via the telephone network 11 at the FAX receiving unit 21 or receives an e-mail from the data terminal 9 via the Internet 7 at the e-mail receiving unit 23. (Step S11), the FAX receiving unit 21 converts the received FAX document into an electronic image such as TIFF-F and supplies it to the image converting unit 25, and the e-mail receiving unit 23 is attached to the e-mail. The electronic image is taken out and supplied to the image conversion unit 25.
[0040]
Upon receiving the electronic image, the image conversion unit 25 converts the image into an image that can be displayed on the Web interface of the mobile phone 5 (step S13), and the converted image has a plurality of sizes that can be displayed on the mobile phone 5. In addition to dividing into sub-images (step S15), in each of the plurality of sub-images, position information that is a file name that can uniquely identify the positional relationship between each of the sub-images that are obliquely adjacent to each other is provided, Each sub-image is stored in the image storage unit 27 together with the position information (step S17).
[0041]
Then, the Web page for the mobile phone 5 linked to each of the plurality of sub-images stored in the image storage unit 27 based on the position information is generated and managed by the display processing unit 29. Then, the e-mail describing the URL of the generated web page is transmitted from the e-mail transmission unit 31 to the mobile phone 5 via the mobile communication company GW3 (step S19).
[0042]
When the user of the mobile phone 5 receives the e-mail with the URL of this Web page, the user accesses the FAX image conversion / storage server 1 from the mobile phone 5 via the mobile communication company GW3 (step S21). The sub image stored in the image storage unit 27 of the storage server 1 is acquired and displayed on the screen of the mobile phone 5, and a plurality of sub images are sequentially displayed while following the link, whereby the entire image is displayed. Is browsed (step S23).
[0043]
The processing procedure of the image display method of the above embodiment is recorded as a program on a recording medium, the recording medium is incorporated into a computer system, and the program recorded on the recording medium is downloaded or installed in the computer system. By operating the computer system with a program, it is possible to function as an image display device that implements the image display method, and by using such a recording medium, the distribution can be improved. is there.
[0044]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, when the image is larger than the display screen, the image is divided into a plurality of sub-images that can be displayed on the display screen, and the plurality of sub-images are stored together with the position information. Since each of the plurality of sub-images is appropriately switched and displayed on the display screen based on the position information, the plurality of sub-images are browsed while sequentially switching and displaying the plurality of sub-images based on the position information. The entire image can be easily viewed at any time and anywhere on the display screen even with a large image of FAX or e-mail, and the convenience can be remarkably improved.
[0045]
Further, according to the present invention, the display screen is a display screen of a mobile phone terminal, a mobile phone terminal web page linked to each of a plurality of sub-images based on position information is generated, and the web page Since the e-mail describing the URL is transmitted to the mobile phone terminal, the mobile phone terminal browses while switching and displaying a plurality of sub-images by following the links of the respective Web pages, so that a small display screen of the mobile phone terminal is displayed. In addition, the entire image can be easily browsed even with a large image of FAX or e-mail anytime and anywhere, and the convenience can be remarkably improved.
[0046]
Further, according to the present invention, since a facsimile image transmitted from the telephone network is received as an input image, a large image such as a facsimile image can be viewed anytime and anywhere on a small display screen of a mobile telephone terminal, for example.
[0047]
According to the present invention, since a digital image attached to an e-mail from the Internet is received, a large image such as an e-mail image can be viewed anytime and anywhere on a small display screen of a mobile phone terminal, for example.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram showing a plurality of sub-images divided by an image conversion unit of the image display device shown in FIG. 1 and their file names. FIG.
3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the image display apparatus shown in FIG.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Fax image conversion / storage server for mobile phone users 3 Mobile communication company GW
5 Cellular phone 7 Internet 9 Data terminal 11 Telephone network 13 Facsimile 21 FAX receiving unit 23 E-mail receiving unit 25 Image converting unit 27 Image storage unit 29 Display processing unit 31 E-mail transmitting unit

Claims (9)

An image display device that displays a digital image larger than the display screen on a display screen of a terminal ,
An image receiving means for receiving the digital image,
An image dividing means for dividing the digital image thus received, into a plurality of sub-images of size which can be displayed on said display screen,
An image storing means for storing the file name of the file containing the positional information positional relationship can uniquely identify between sub-images adjacent in each of each the plurality of sub-images of said plurality of divided sub-images ,
Generating means for generating a terminal Web page in which a file name including the position information of each of the plurality of sub-images is set as a link destination;
E-mail transmitting means for transmitting an e-mail describing the URL of the terminal web page to the terminal;
An image display device comprising: display control means for reading a sub image stored in a link destination file requested from the terminal and displaying the sub image on the terminal . 2. The image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the image receiving means includes a facsimile receiving means connected to a telephone network and receiving a facsimile image transmitted from the telephone network.   3. The image display device according to claim 1, wherein the image receiving unit includes an e-mail receiving unit that is connected to the Internet and receives a digital image attached to an e-mail from the Internet. An image display method for displaying a digital image larger than the display screen on a display screen of a terminal ,
The image display device
An image receiving step of receiving the digital image,
An image dividing step of dividing the digital image thus received, into a plurality of sub-images of size which can be displayed on said display screen,
An image storing step of storing the file name of the file containing the positional information positional relationship can uniquely identify between sub-images adjacent in each of each the plurality of sub-images of said plurality of divided sub-images ,
Generating a web page for a terminal in which a file name including the position information of each of the plurality of sub-images is set as a link destination;
An e-mail transmission step of transmitting an e-mail describing the URL of the terminal web page to the terminal;
The image display method characterized in that said read sub-image stored to the requested destination file from the terminal, performs a display control step of displaying on said terminal. Wherein the image receiving step,請Motomeko 4 image display method, wherein the receiving facsimile image transmitted from the telephone network. 6. The image display method according to claim 4 , wherein the image receiving step receives a digital image attached to an e-mail from the Internet. A recording medium recording an image display program for displaying a digital image larger than the display screen on a display screen of a terminal ,
On the computer,
An image receiving step of receiving the digital image,
An image dividing step of dividing the digital image thus received, into a plurality of sub-images of size which can be displayed on said display screen,
An image storing step of storing the file name of the file containing the positional information positional relationship can uniquely identify between sub-images adjacent in each of each the plurality of sub-images of said plurality of divided sub-images ,
Generating a web page for a terminal in which a file name including the position information of each of the plurality of sub-images is set as a link destination;
An e-mail transmission step of transmitting an e-mail describing the URL of the terminal web page to the terminal;
A display control step of reading out the sub-image stored in the linked file requested from the terminal and displaying the sub-image on the terminal ; and
A recording medium on which an image display program for executing is recorded. 8. The recording medium recording an image display program according to claim 7 , wherein the image receiving step receives a facsimile image transmitted from a telephone network. 9. The recording medium recording the image display program according to claim 7 , wherein the image receiving step receives a digital image attached to an e-mail from the Internet.

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