JP5338298B2 - Page browsing device and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a web page browsing apparatus to easily find a link text to be linked to a web page desired by a user without the need of jumping to the linking destination of a hyper link and opening the web page. <P>SOLUTION: When an optional link text Ltxtn in the hyper text of the web page displayed at present is selectively focused, the hyper text of the linking destination web page is obtained according to a linking destination URL corresponding to the link text Ltxtn, and tag elements having the same (or similar) character string as the link text Ltxtn are listed up. Then, on the basis of the tag elements having the same character string as the link text Ltxtn in the hyper text of the linking destination web page, the text Htxt included in the succeeding tag elements is extracted, and the read-out voice is voice-synthesized and output. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&amp;INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to a page browsing apparatus and a program.

  Conventionally, in a server client system in a communication network such as a LAN (Local Area Network), a WAN (Wide Area Network), and the Internet, various Web pages generated and stored by the server device by a Web browser provided in the client device. Is obtained, displayed, and browsed.

  In general, a Web page is described by HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) source code, and a Web browser analyzes and displays the document structure.

  In this Web page, there are a plurality of text portions (link text) in which the described text is used as a headline and a hyperlink is set for transition to another page corresponding to the content of the text. There are many cases.

  When the user focuses on the hypertext link text and performs a determination operation, the URL of the link destination is accessed, the corresponding Web page is acquired, and the screen is expanded and displayed.

  At this time, the link text focused on by the user on the Web page is just a headline, and the details of the content cannot be grasped unless the linked Web page is acquired and expanded on the screen. Before opening a page, a number of unnecessary linked Web pages are often opened.

  In this case, each time a linked Web page is acquired and the screen is expanded, it takes time to perform the screen expansion (rendering), and the contents of the Web page expanded on the screen are viewed to determine whether the link destination is desired by the user. Therefore, there are many repeated operations of returning to the original Web page or opening a new Web page by focusing on another link text. For this reason, a web browser of a portable terminal that cannot perform rendering processing at high speed requires a wasteful waiting time until a desired linked web page is found and opened.

On the other hand, as the hypertext of a web page is synthesized by speech and read out or only the link text set in the hypertext is sequentially synthesized by speech and read out, a user operation for instructing a jump to a link destination is performed. When performed, a hypertext control device having a function of jumping to a linked Web page of a link text focused according to the reading position has been considered (for example, see Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-078952

  In the conventional hypertext control device, the user can know the hypertext by listening to the read-out voice without reading the hypertext, and by jump instruction at an arbitrary text-reading position, the user can go to the related linked web page. It is possible to jump. However, whether or not the linked web page has the user-desired content is determined by expanding the screen of the linked web page and confirming it, or by reading out all of the reading voice from the hypertext head of the linked web page. I can't judge without listening. For this reason, after all, the process of opening the link destination web page by focusing on each link text and the process of returning to the original web page are repeated until a desired link destination web page is found. There is also a problem with poor efficiency.

The present invention has been made in view of such problems, when viewing a page, without having to open the page to jump to the hyperlink destination, easily link text that links to a user desired page It is an object to provide a page browsing device and a program that can be found.

The first aspect of the present invention provides a page receiving means for receiving page information, a page display means for displaying the page information received by the page receiving means on a display screen, and a page displayed by the page display means. A page acquisition unit that acquires link destination page information corresponding to a link text that is in focus at a stage where an arbitrary link text is focused in the link text included in the information, and the page acquisition unit From the acquired linked page information, an element extraction unit that extracts an element including a character string that is the same as or similar to the link text, and a body text that is included after the element extracted by the element extraction unit is extracted. Text extraction means and output for outputting the body text extracted by the text extraction means Is characterized by comprising: a stage, a.

According to the present invention, when viewing the page, without the need to open the page to jump to hyper-link to point, to be able to easily find the link text that you want to link to the user's desired page ing.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a server / client system according to an embodiment of a Web page browsing apparatus of the present invention.

  This server / client system includes a plurality of server devices 10,... And a plurality of client devices 20,... Connected on a network N composed of the Internet, WAN, LAN, and the like.

  The server device 10 has a plurality of application programs that function by operating the main body of the server device 10 such as a Web content generation processing program, a registered user management processing program, and a Web page distribution processing program. In response to an access request to the designated website from the requested client apparatus 20,..., The page of the web content 15a in the requested website is distributed to each client apparatus 20,.

  The client device 20,... Includes a mobile phone, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a PC, and the like. Have a program. Then, for example, the server device (A) 10 of a desired website [http://www.sight_a.co.jp/] is accessed to acquire the web content A15a, and HTML (Hyper Text Markup of the web content A15a) is acquired. Analyzes the tree structure consisting of the (Language) tag elements, expands the screen as a Web page, and displays or prints it.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of the server apparatus 10 in the server / client system.

  The server device 10 includes a CPU 11 as a computer, and an external storage device 15 such as a ROM 13, a RAM 14, and an external hard disk is connected to the CPU 11 via a bus 12.

  Further, an input device 16 such as a keyboard and a mouse, a display device 17 such as an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), and a communication I / F (interface) 18 with the client devices 20 are connected to the CPU 11 via the bus 12. The

  The CPU 11 controls the operation of each part of the circuit by using the RAM 14 as a working memory in accordance with a system program or various application programs stored in advance in the ROM 13, and via a key input signal from the input device 16 or a communication I / F 18. The various programs are activated and executed in response to a Web content acquisition request signal or the like corresponding to a user operation from the client device 20 received.

  The web content 15a is updated and generated as appropriate and stored in the external storage device 15, for example.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of the client device 20 in the server client system.

  The client device 20 includes a CPU 21 as a computer, and a ROM 23, a RAM 24, and an external storage device 25 such as a memory card and an optical disk read / write unit are connected to the CPU 21 via a bus 22.

  Further, the CPU 21 is described via the bus 22 in an input device 26 such as a keyboard and a mouse, a display device 27 including an LCD, a communication I / F (interface) 28 with the server device 10, a Web page, and the like. A speech synthesis processing unit 29a that converts text data into speech data, a speech output unit 29b that outputs speech data, and a speaker SP are connected.

  The CPU 21 controls the operation of each part of the circuit by using the RAM 24 as a working memory in accordance with a system program and various application programs stored in advance in the ROM 23. The various application programs are executed according to input signals from the input device 27. It is activated and executed.

  When the server apparatus 10 is a website on the Internet (N) and the client apparatus 20 is a user terminal that can access the website, an access request to the website (10) from the user terminal (20). Accordingly, the Web content 15a described and generated in HTML on the Web site (10) is distributed to the user terminal (20) that is the access request source, developed into a Web page by the Web browser program 23a, and displayed on the display device 27. Is displayed.

  The Web browser program 23a of the client device (user terminal) 20 acquires the Web content 15a in accordance with access to the server device 10 of the Web site specified by the user, and has a tree structure composed of HTML tags of the Web content 15b. And has a function of developing and displaying a screen as a Web page in the frame buffer FB in the RAM 24. Then, when the link text in the hypertext of the Web page being displayed is instructed by the focus, the body text of the content corresponding to the link text is extracted from the hypertext of the Web page of the link destination, and the speech read out is synthesized with speech And has a function of outputting.

  The RAM 24 includes a link text similar element memory 24a and a reading target text memory 24b.

  In the link text similar element memory 24a, tag elements including character strings identical or similar to the link text are listed and stored from the hypertext of the link destination Web page.

  In the reading target text memory 24b, a tag element including a character string of the strongest style among tag elements including similar character strings of the link text is determined, and more than a set number of reading marks are determined from the tag elements thereafter. The text having more than the set number of characters is extracted and stored as the body text corresponding to the link text.

  Such link destination body text extraction / speech output function is realized, for example, by a program plug-in or add-on to the Web browser program 23a.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a screen display example of the Web page P acquired from the server device (A) 10 [http://www.sight.a.co.jp] in the client device 20.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an HTML source Phtm describing the Web page P in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the Web page P displayed on the display device 27 of the client device 20 is hypertext, and the headings of the five items indicated by the title T “Today's breaking news” are all link texts Ltxt1 to Ltxt5. Is set to Each of the link texts Ltxt1 to Ltxt5 is described in a tag element surrounded by “A” in the HTML source Phtm shown in FIG. 5 and is associated with the URL of the link destination Web page.

  For example, in the Web page P displayed on the display device 27, when the third link text “Prime Minister, Order to Cabinet Support Rate” Ltxt3 is focused, the HTML source Phtm describing the link text Ltxt3 is surrounded by a broken line a. As described above, the URL [http://www.sight_b.co.jp/news002.html] of the link destination Web page is acquired.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the HTML source LPhtm of the Web page LP corresponding to the link destination URL of the link text Ltxt3 in FIG.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a screen display example of the linked Web page LP described by the HTML source LPhtm in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the HTML source LPhtm of the link destination web page LP includes the same (or similar) heading text as the link text “Prime Minister, Order to Cabinet Support Rate” Ltxt3 focused on the link source web page P. There is a tag element enclosed in “H1” that contains Mtxt, “Prime Minister, Order to Cabinet Support”.

  The body text Htxt corresponding to the heading text “Prime Minister, Order with Cabinet Support Rate” Mtxt is a tag element “P” after the tag element “H1” including the heading text “Order with Prime Minister, Cabinet Support Rate” Mtxt. Are described as a relatively long character string having several readings.

  For this reason, in order to extract the body text Htxt corresponding to the link text Ltxtn focused on the link source Wb page P from the HTML source LPhtm of the link destination Web page LP, the same (or similar) as the link text Ltxtn. The tag element “H1” including the headline text Mtxt is searched, and in the subsequent tag element “P”, the text including the set number of readings and the number of characters exceeding the set number may be extracted.

  FIG. 8 shows the linked web page LP ′ that includes a plurality of headline texts Mtxt1, Mtxt2 that are the same as (or similar to) Ltxt that is the link text “Prime Minister, Order to Cabinet Support Rate” Ltxt focused on the link source web page P. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen display.

  In the case of a linked Web page LP ′ including a plurality of headline texts Mtxt1 and Mtxt2 that are the same (or similar) as the link text “Prime Minister, Order from the Cabinet's Support Rate” Ltxt, From a plurality of the same (or similar) headline texts Mtxt1, Mtxt2, the headline text Mtxt2 composed of the most “strong” character string (font size / font style) is determined. Then, in the tag element “P” after the tag element “H1” including the heading text Mtxt2 composed of the most “strong” character string, the text including the set number of readings and the number of characters exceeding the set number is extracted. That's fine.

  Next, the Web page browsing function in the client device 20 having the above configuration will be described.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the text-to-speech acquisition process for acquiring the body text of the linked Web page and outputting the text to be read out as the client device 20 browses the Web page.

  For example, the page P (see FIG. 4) of the Web content (A) 15a desired by the user acquired from the Web site [http://www.sight_a.co.jp/] of the server device (A) 10 is displayed on the display device 27. When displayed, the reading target text acquisition process in FIG. 9 is started, and first, the contents of the reading target text memory 24b in the RAM 24b are cleared by initialization (step S1).

  Then, when the focus is moved to the desired link text (for example, “Order by Prime Minister, Cabinet Support Rate” Ltxt3) on the displayed Web page P, the focused link text Ltxt3 is stored in the RAM 24. (Step S2).

  Then, the URL [http://www.sight_b.co.jp/news002] of the linked web page corresponding to the focused link text Ltxt3 from the HTML source Phtm (see FIG. 5) of the web page P being displayed. .html] is acquired, and the linked HTML source LPhtm (see FIG. 6) is acquired (step S3).

  Then, a process of searching for and listing a tag element including the same (or similar) character string as the link text “Prime Minister, Order to Cabinet Support” Ltxt3 from the HTML source LPhtm of the acquired link destination web page Is executed according to the flowchart of FIG.

  FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a list-up process of elements including the same character string as the link text accompanying the reading-target text acquisition process of the client device 20.

  When this list-up process is started, the link text similar element memory 24a in the RAM 24 is cleared by initialization (step A1), and the HTML source LPhtm (see FIG. 6) of the link destination Web page acquired in step S3. ), It is determined for each tag element from the head of the HTML source LPhtm whether or not there is a tag element including a text description (step A2).

  If it is determined that there is a tag element including a description of the text (step A2 (yes)), the text included in the tag element is stored in the link text “Prime Minister, Cabinet” stored in step S2. It is determined whether or not the support rate includes the same (or similar) character string as “order” Ltxt3 (step A3).

  Then, in the tag element enclosed by “H1” in the HTML source LPhtm of the linked Web page in FIG. 6, the same (or similar) character string (headline text “Prime Minister” If it is determined that the order “Mtxt) is included in the cabinet support rate (step A3 (yes)), this tag element“ H1 ”is registered in the link text similar element memory 24a in the RAM 24 (step A4). .

  If it is determined in step A2 that the tag element does not include a text description (step A2 (no)), or even if the text description is included in step A3, it is the same as (or similar to) the link text Ltxt3. If the tag element including the same (or similar) character string as the link text Ltxt3 is registered in the step A4, it is determined that the character string is not included (step A3 (no)). It is determined whether or not the tag element to be processed is the last tag element in the HTML source LPhtm of the link destination Web page (step A5).

  Here, when it is determined that it is not the last tag element in the HTML source LPhtm of the link destination Web page (step A5 (no)), the process after the step A2 is repeated with the next tag element as a processing target ( Step A6 → A2).

  Based on the list-up process in FIG. 10 (step SA), if it is determined that one or more tag elements are listed (step S4 (yes)), it is determined whether there is only one tag element listed. (Step S5).

  Here, when it is determined that a plurality of tag elements including the same (or similar) character string as the link text Ltxtn are listed instead of only one (step S5 (no)), the list is listed. A diagram for extracting the most “strong” character string (font size / font style) from among character strings included in a plurality of tag elements as a character string located immediately before the body text Htxt of the linked Web page. 11 shifts to the comparison processing of the “strength” of the character string (step SB).

  On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 6, there is only one tag element “H1” that includes the same (or similar) character string (heading text Mtxt) as “Prime, Order from Cabinet Support Rate” Ltxt3. If it is determined (step S5 (yes)), the process proceeds to the body text extraction process in FIG. 12 for extracting the body text Htxt of the linked web page based on the one tag element “H1”. (Step SC).

  FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a character string “strength” comparison process associated with the reading-target text acquisition process of the client device 20.

  As shown in FIG. 8, for example, the linked Web page corresponding to the link text “Prime Minister, Order to Cabinet Support Rate” Ltxt3 is the same (or similar) character string (headline text Mtxt1, Mtxt2). ) Is a Web page LP ′ listed in plural (step S5 (no)), the process proceeds to the character string “strength” comparison process in FIG. 11 (step SB). Variables x and y for managing tag elements are initialized as x = 2 and y = 1, respectively (step B1).

  Also, the number of tag elements registered in the link text similar element memory 24a in the RAM 24 in accordance with the list-up process (step SA) is substituted for the variable z (“2” in the case of the linked Web page shown in FIG. 8). (Step B2).

  Then, the font size and font style of the character string described in the xth (x = 2) tag element on the list registered in the text similar element memory 24a are acquired (step B3).

  Then, the font size SZx of the character string of the x-th (x = 2) tag element on the list is compared with the font size SZy of the character string of the y-th (y = 1) tag element (step B4) and are equal. Is determined (step B5).

  Here, it is determined that the font size SZx of the character string of the xth (x = 2) tag element is not equal to the font size SZy of the character string of the yth (y = 1) tag element (step B5 (no )), When it is determined that the xth (x = 2) is larger than the yth (y = 1) (step B6 (yes)), the value “2” of the variable x is assigned to the variable y. (Step B7).

  Conversely, if it is determined that the xth (x = 2) is smaller than the yth (y = 1) (step B6 (no)), the value of the variable y is maintained as it is.

  On the other hand, when it is determined in step B5 that the font size SZx of the character string of the xth (x = 2) tag element is equal to the font size SZy of the character string of the yth (y = 1) tag element. (Step B5 (yes)), the font style STx of the character string of the x-th (x = 2) tag element is compared with the font style STy of the character string of the y-th (y = 1) tag element. (Step B8), whether only the xth font style STx is bold (step B9), only the yth font style STy is bold (step B10), or is any font style the same (step B10 (no) )) Is determined.

  When it is determined that only the font style STx of the character string of the xth (x = 2) tag element is bold (step B9 (yes)), the value “2” of the variable x is set to the variable y. (Step B7).

  Conversely, when it is determined that only the font style STy of the character string of the y-th (y = 1) tag element is bold (step B10 (yes)), the value of the variable y is maintained as it is.

When the appearance number of the tag element including the character string whose font size SZ is larger or whose font style SZ is equal but whose phone style ST is bold is set in the variable y, the variable x Until it is determined that the variables z are equal, that is, the variable x has reached the total number of tag elements registered in the link text similar element memory 24a (step B11).
), The variable x is incremented (step B12), and the processing after step B3 is repeated (step B12 → B3).

  On the other hand, the font size SZx of the character string of the xth tag element is equal to the font size SZy of the character string of the yth tag element (step B5 (yes)), and both font styles STx and STy are the same. (Step B10 (no)), the variable x is equal to the variable z, that is, until it is determined that the variable x has reached the number of tag elements registered in the link text similar element memory 24a. (Step B13) After the value of the variable x is substituted into the variable y (Step B14), the variable x is incremented (Step B12), and the processing after Step B3 is repeated (Step B12 → B3).

  If it is determined in step B13 that the variable x is equal to the variable z and the variable x has reached the total number of tag elements registered in the link text similar element memory 24a (step B13 (yes)). ) In the HTML source of the linked Web page, it is impossible to narrow down to a tag element including the most “strong” character string among a plurality of tag elements including the same (or similar) character string as the link text Ltxtn. (Step B15).

  In Step B11, when it is determined that the variable x is equal to the variable z and the variable x has reached the total number of tag elements registered in the link text similar element memory 24a (Step B11 (yes)), The y-th tag element on the registered list is set as a tag element including the most “strong” character string (step B16).

  That is, the linked Web page corresponding to the link text “Prime Minister, Order to Cabinet Support Rate” Ltxt3 is, for example, the Web page LP ′ shown in FIG. 8, and the same (or similar) character as the link text Ltxt3. When two tag elements including a column (heading text Mtxt1, Mtxt2) are listed, the y-th (y = 2) tag element including the heading text Mtxt2 having the larger font size SZ is the strongest. "Is set as a tag element containing a character string.

  When it is determined that the tag element including the most “strong” character string that is the same (or similar) to the link text Ltxtn is extracted through the “strength” comparison process of the series of character strings (step S6 (yes)). ), The process proceeds to the body text extraction process in FIG. 12 for extracting the body text Htxt of the linked Web page based on the tag element including the most “strong” character string (step SC).

  FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a body text extraction process associated with the reading target text acquisition process of the client device 20.

  When this body text extraction process is started, first, in the HTML source of the Web page acquired according to the link destination URL corresponding to the link text Ltxtn, the same as the link text Ltxtn listed in the step SA (or The next tag element after one tag element including a similar character string, or the next tag element that is the same (or similar) to the link text Ltxtn extracted in step SB and includes the most “strong” character string. Note the tag element (step C1).

  Then, it is determined whether or not the noted tag element is a tag element including text information (step C2).

  Here, when it is determined that the noted tag element is a tag element including text information (step C2 (yes)), it is determined whether or not the text information includes a set number Npunc of reading points. (Step C3).

  When it is determined that the text information of the noted tag element is text information including a set number of readings Npunc or more (step C3 (yes)), the text information has a length of the set number of characters Mlen or more. Is determined (step C4).

  If it is determined that the text information of the noted tag element is longer than the set number of characters Mlen (step C4 (yes)), the link destination Web corresponding to the link text Ltxtn corresponds to the text information. It is set as the body text Htxt to be read out of the page LP (step C5).

  Then, it is determined that the body text Htxt of the link destination Web page LP corresponding to the link text Ltxtn is extracted (step S7 (yes)), and the link text Ltxtn and the extracted body text Htxt are read out in the RAM 24, respectively. It is stored in the target text memory 24b (step S8). The link text Ltxtn and the body text Htxt stored in the text-to-speech text memory 24b are converted into voice signals by the voice synthesis processing unit 29a and output from the speaker SP via the voice output unit 29b.

  That is, in the Web page P shown in FIG. 4, when the focus is moved to the link text “Prime Minister, Order to the Cabinet Support Rate” Ltxt3, the hypertext of the link destination Web page LP corresponding to the link text txt3 (FIG. 6). Htxt is extracted from the text of the text “Refer to the administration, and received it calmly.” From the text, and the read-out voice is output together with the link text “Prime Minister, Order from the Cabinet” Ltxt3. As a result, it is possible to easily know the contents of the body text Htxt corresponding to the link text Ltxt without having to confirm the contents by actually opening and displaying the linked web page LP from the link text Ltxt. Can be found and displayed efficiently without loss of time.

  On the other hand, if it is determined that the tag element currently focused on does not include text information (step C2 (no)), or if it is determined that it includes text information, the text information is equal to or greater than the set number Npunc. If it is determined that it does not include a punctuation mark (step C3 (no)), or if it is determined that the text information includes a punctuation mark greater than or equal to the set number Npunc but does not have a length equal to or greater than the set character number Mlen (Step C4 (no)), it is determined whether or not the tag element under attention is the last tag element in the HTML source of the linked web page (step C6).

  If it is determined that the tag element is not the last tag element (step C6 (no)), the next tag element is noticed (step C7), and the processes after step C2 are repeated (step C7 → C2). .

  If it is determined in step C6 that it is the last tag element (step C6 (yes)), the text information as the body text from the hypertext of the linked web page LP corresponding to the link text txtn. Is not extracted (step S7 (no)), and error processing is performed.

  Therefore, according to the Web page browsing function in the client device 20 having the above-described configuration, when an arbitrary link text Ltxtn in the hypertext of the currently displayed Web page is selectively focused by a cursor operation or the like, the link text Ltxtn The hypertext (HTML source) of the link destination Web page is acquired according to the link destination URL corresponding to, and tag elements having the same (or similar) character string as the link text Ltxtn are listed. Then, based on the tag element having the same (or similar) character string as the link text Ltxtn in the hypertext (HTML source) of the link destination Web page, the body text Htxt included in the subsequent tag elements is extracted. The read-out speech is synthesized and output. For this reason, it is possible to easily know the content of the body text Htxt corresponding to the link text Ltxt without having to actually open and display the linked Web page LP from the link text Ltxtn and confirm the content. Can be found and displayed efficiently without loss of time.

  Further, according to the Web page browsing function in the client device 20 having the above-described configuration, a plurality of tag elements having the same (or similar) character string as the link text Ltxtn are listed from the hypertext (HTML source) of the link destination Web page. If the tag element is selected, a tag element including the most “strong” character string in the phone size SZ or the font style ST is extracted from the plurality of tag elements, and the text included in the tag elements after the extracted tag element is extracted. The body text Htxt is judged and extracted from the information, and the reading voice is output. For this reason, even if a plurality of tag elements having the same (or similar) character string as the link text Ltxtn exist in the hypertext (HTML source) of the link destination Web page, the body text Htxt corresponding to the link text Ltxtn It is possible to reliably extract a tag element that follows a tag element that includes.

  Further, according to the Web page browsing function in the client device 20 having the above configuration, the text information included in the tag elements after the tag element having the same (or similar) character string as the link text Ltxtn is determined and extracted as the body text Htxt. Is extracted by determining whether or not the text information includes reading points equal to or greater than the set number Npunc and has a length equal to or greater than the set number of characters Mlen. Therefore, it is possible to correctly extract the body text Htxt corresponding to the link text Ltxtn and output the read-out voice.

  In the embodiment, the Web page browsing function is installed in the Web browser 23a of the client device 20 in a normal server / client system, and the link destination site corresponding to the link text Ltxtn of the Web page P being displayed. The case where the body text Htxt is extracted and the reading voice is output has been described. On the other hand, when extracting the text text Htxt of the link destination site corresponding to the link text Ltxtn of the Web page P being displayed on the thin client terminal in the server-based computing system, and outputting the reading voice A web page browsing function similar to that described above may be installed in the web browser of the server device activated by an input event from the thin client terminal.

  It should be noted that each processing method by the Web page browsing apparatus described in each of the above embodiments, that is, the reading target text acquisition process shown in the flowchart of FIG. 9, the link text accompanying the reading target text acquisition process shown in the flowchart of FIG. A process for listing tag elements including the same character string, a “strength” comparison process for character strings associated with the text-to-speech target text acquisition process shown in the flowchart of FIG. 11, and a text-to-speech target text acquisition process shown in the flowchart of FIG. Each method such as text extraction processing is a program that can be executed by a computer, such as a memory card (ROM card, RAM card, etc.), magnetic disk (floppy disk, hard disk, etc.), optical disc (CD-ROM, DVD, etc.). Etc.), semiconductor memory, etc. It may be distributed and stored in the medium of the external storage device 25 (15). Then, the computer (CPU 21 (11)) of the Web page browsing device reads the program stored in the medium of the external storage device 25 (15) into the storage device (flash ROM 23 (13) or RAM 24 (14)), and this By controlling the operation by the read program, the Web page browsing function described in each of the above embodiments can be realized, and the same processing by the above-described method can be executed.

  Further, program data for realizing each of the above methods can be transmitted on the communication network (N) in the form of a program code, and from a computer device (program server) connected to the communication network (N). It is also possible to capture the program data and store it in a storage device (flash ROM 23 (13) or RAM 24 (14)) to realize the Web page browsing function described above.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention at the stage of implementation. Further, each of the embodiments includes inventions at various stages, and various inventions can be extracted by appropriately combining a plurality of disclosed constituent elements. For example, even if some constituent elements are deleted from all the constituent elements shown in each embodiment or some constituent elements are combined in different forms, the problems described in the column of the problem to be solved by the invention If the effects described in the column “Effects of the Invention” can be obtained, a configuration in which these constituent requirements are deleted or combined can be extracted as an invention.

The block diagram which shows the structure of the server client system which concerns on embodiment of the web page browsing apparatus of this invention. The block diagram which shows the circuit structure of the server apparatus 10 in the said server client system. The block diagram which shows the circuit structure of the client apparatus 20 in the said server client system. The figure which shows the example of a screen display of the web page P acquired from server apparatus (A) 10 [http://www.sight.a.co.jp] in the said client apparatus 20. FIG. The figure which shows the HTML source Phtm which described the web page P in the said FIG. The figure which shows HTML source LPhtm of Web page LP corresponding to the link destination URL of the link text Ltxt3 in the said FIG. The figure which shows the example of a screen display of the link destination web page LP described by the HTML source LPhtm in the said FIG. Example of screen display of linked web page LP 'containing multiple headline texts Mtxt1 and Mtxt2 that are the same as (or similar to) Ltxt, the link text focused on the link source web page P FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a text-to-speech acquisition process for acquiring the body text of a linked Web page and outputting the text to be read when the client device 20 browses the Web page. The flowchart which shows the list-up process of the element containing the same character string as the link text accompanying the reading-target text acquisition process of the said client apparatus. The flowchart which shows the "strength" comparison process of the character string accompanying the reading target text acquisition process of the said client apparatus. The flowchart which shows the extraction process of the body text accompanying the reading-target text acquisition process of the said client apparatus.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Server apparatus 20 ... Client apparatus 11, 21 ... CPU
12, 22 ... Bus 13, 23 ... ROM
23a ... Web browser program 14, 24 ... RAM
24a ... Link text similar element memory 24b ... Read target text memory 15, 25 ... External storage device 15a ... Web content 16,26 ... Input device 17,27 ... Display device 18,28 ... Communication I / F
29a ... speech synthesis processing unit 29b ... speech output unit SP ... speaker N ... communication network FB ... frame buffer P ... web page Phtm ... html source of web page LP ... link destination web page LPhtm ... HTML source of link destination web page Ltxtn ... Link text Mtxt ... Headline text Htxt ... Body text

Claims (7)

Page receiving means for receiving page information;
Page display means for expanding and displaying the page information received by the page receiving means on a display screen;
A page that obtains linked page information corresponding to the link text that is in focus when any link text is focused on among the link text included in the page information displayed by the page display means. Acquisition means;
Element extraction means for extracting an element including a character string that is the same as or similar to the link text from the linked page information acquired by the page acquisition means;
Text extraction means for extracting the body text included after the element extracted by the element extraction means;
Output means for outputting the body text extracted by the text extraction means;
A page browsing device comprising: The page acquisition means performs a jump instruction operation for opening link destination page information corresponding to the link text by selecting the link text from the link text included in the page information displayed by the page display means. Before doing, when the focus is on any link text, get the linked page information corresponding to the link text that has the focus,
The output means performs a jump instruction operation to open link destination page information corresponding to the link text by selecting the link text from the link text included in the page information displayed by the page display means. Before, output the body text extracted by the text extraction means,
The page browsing apparatus according to claim 1. An emphasis element extraction means for extracting an element including an emphasized character string among character strings included in the plurality of elements when a plurality of elements are extracted by the element extraction means;
When one element is extracted by the element extracting unit, the text extracting unit extracts a body text included after the element, and when a plurality of elements are extracted by the element extracting unit, Extracting the body text included after the element extracted by the emphasized element extraction means;
The page browsing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the page browsing apparatus is characterized. The emphasis element extraction unit extracts an element including the emphasized character string by using a character string having a large font size or a character string having a font style as an emphasis style as the emphasized character string.
The page browsing apparatus of Claim 3 characterized by the above-mentioned. The output means converts the body text into speech and outputs the speech.
The page browsing apparatus in any one of Claims 1-4 characterized by the above-mentioned. The output means expands the body text on the display screen for display output;
The page browsing apparatus in any one of Claims 1-5 characterized by the above-mentioned. A program for controlling a computer of a page browsing device,
The computer,
Page receiving means for receiving page information,
Page display means for expanding and displaying the page information received by the page receiving means on the display screen;
When the link text included in the page information displayed by this page display means is focused on any link text, the page that obtains the linked page information corresponding to the focused link text Acquisition means,
Element extraction means for extracting an element including a character string that is the same as or similar to the link text from the linked page information acquired by the page acquisition means;
Text extraction means for extracting the body text included after the element extracted by the element extraction means;
Output means for outputting the body text extracted by the text extraction means;
A computer-readable program designed to function as a computer.

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