JP5415499B2 - Information display apparatus, method and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to display of information.

  In recent years, with the development of information technology, technologies for automatically acquiring and displaying other information related to various information have been devised in various fields. For example, there is a proposal for creating a thumbnail image of a recorded program from text data or a reduced image corresponding to the program (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In addition, there is a service that sequentially searches and displays and updates the latest information (also referred to as “real-time information”) transmitted on the Internet related to the keyword specified by the user (see, for example, Non-Patent Document 1). . Examples of the latest information mentioned here include tweets (tweets) on miniblogs, reviews posted on social networking services (SNS), posts on other electronic bulletin boards, news articles, and the like.

JP 2005-303742 A

Yahoo Japan Corporation, "Yahoo! Search (Real Time)", [online], [Search August 17, 2011], Internet <URL: http://realtime.search.yahoo.co.jp/>

  However, if the user wants to know information about keywords in the content already displayed on the screen, the user can obtain the information by entering the keyword in the search window (character string input field) for obtaining the information on the screen. A procedure for requesting information again, such as operating the search button, was required. In other words, the user must select a desired character string in the content displayed on the screen again and follow the search request procedure such as copy / paste operation in the search window, which is complicated and easy to use and quick. There was a problem of lack of sex.

  In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to easily display information related to a phrase in content on a screen without any special operation.

  Based on the above object, the information display device according to one aspect (1) of the present invention is displayed in the first area and first display means for displaying information including a character string in the first area of the screen. An evaluation value acquisition unit that acquires an evaluation value for each word in the character string; a word specifying unit that specifies the word or phrase whose acquired evaluation value is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference; and the specified word or phrase An information acquisition means for acquiring information as information at a predetermined update interval via a communication network, and a second display means for displaying the acquired information in a second area on the screen, To do.

  The information display method according to another aspect (8) of the present invention captures the above aspect in the category of the method, and obtains an evaluation value for each word in the character string displayed in the first area of the screen. An evaluation value acquisition process, a phrase specifying process for specifying the phrase whose acquired evaluation value is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference, and information on the specified phrase are acquired at a predetermined update interval via a communication network. The computer executes an information acquisition process and a second display process for displaying the acquired information in a second area on the screen.

  An information display program according to another aspect (9) of the present invention is obtained by capturing the above aspect in the category of a computer program. By controlling the computer, an information display program is displayed in a character string displayed in the first area of the screen. An evaluation value is acquired for each word of the word, the word whose acquired evaluation value is equal to or greater than a predetermined criterion is specified, and information on the specified word is acquired at a predetermined update interval via a communication network. The acquired information is displayed in a second area on the screen.

  In the said aspect of this invention, the information regarding the phrase with an evaluation value more than predetermined among the phrases in the page which the user is utilizing on a screen is displayed on another area | region of the same screen. This eliminates the need for the user to take a new procedure such as inputting a target character string into the search window in order to obtain information. For this reason, it becomes possible to display easily the information regarding the phrase in the content on the screen without special operation.

  According to another aspect (2) of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, the information acquisition unit acquires post information registered or updated after a predetermined date and time as the information. .

  According to another aspect (3) of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, the evaluation value acquisition unit is configured for each word / phrase corresponding to the current time from a reference table in which the evaluation value corresponding to the time is associated with the word / phrase. An evaluation value is acquired.

  In another aspect (4) of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, when the second display means displays the information for each of the plurality of phrases, the second display means slides in the order of the evaluation values of the corresponding phrases. The information is displayed in a display mode that appears.

  According to another aspect (5) of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, the second display means waits for a predetermined operation as an operation for requesting display of information and displays the information. To do.

  According to another aspect (6) of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, the second display means displays the information in the first aspect, and waits for a predetermined operation as an operation requesting detailed display. The information is displayed in a second mode that is more detailed than the first mode.

  According to another aspect (7) of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, the evaluation value specifying unit and the phrase specifying unit are configured to implement a specific information processing function different from the display of the information. The phrase is specified by using, as the character string, the text displayed by input in the first area, which is an input field displayed by the application program stored in the screen.

  Each of the above aspects can also be understood as other categories (methods, programs, systems, etc.) that are not specified. For the method and program categories, the “means” indicated in the device category is used as the “processing”. "Or" step ". Further, the order of processes and steps is not limited to the one directly specified in the present application, and can be changed such as changing the order or executing some processes collectively or partly at any time. Further, a computer such as a server or a terminal that realizes and executes individual means, processes, and steps may be common, or may be different for each means, process, step, or timing.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to easily display information about words in content on the screen without any special operation.

The functional block diagram which shows a structure about embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the example of data in embodiment of this invention (control data). The flowchart which shows the process sequence in embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the example of a screen display in embodiment of this invention (related information). The figure (related information) which shows the other example of the screen display in embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the example of a screen display in embodiment of this invention (during the switching of related information). The figure which shows the example of a screen display in embodiment of this invention (after the switching of related information). The figure which shows the example of a screen display in 2nd Embodiment of this invention (recipe search). The figure which shows the example of a screen display in 2nd Embodiment of this invention (route search).

  Next, a mode for carrying out the present invention (referred to as “embodiment”) will be illustrated along the drawings. In addition, the assumptions common to the contents already described in the background art and problems are omitted as appropriate.

[1. Constitution〕
The present embodiment relates to the information display device 1 (hereinafter also referred to as “this device 1” or “this device”) shown in the configuration diagram of FIG. 1, and this device 1 is a smartphone, a mobile phone terminal, a tablet PC, or the like. Mobile information terminals and other personal computers. The apparatus 1 includes at least an arithmetic control unit 6 such as a CPU, a storage device 7 such as a main memory and an auxiliary storage device, and a communication network N (for example, a mobile phone, a PHS, a public wireless LAN, etc.). Communication means 8 (communication circuit with mobile communication network, communication gateway device, wireless LAN adapter, etc.) with a mobile communication network or the Internet. The apparatus 1 has a display screen G such as a liquid crystal with a touch panel function and an organic EL in addition to the computer configuration as described above.

  In the present apparatus 1, elements (10, 20, etc.) such as each means shown in FIG. 1 are realized by a predetermined computer program stored (installed) in the storage device 7 controlling the arithmetic control unit 6. The types of computer programs here are free, for example, basic software such as an operating system, smartphone application programs (also referred to as “apps”), function expansion modules such as plug-in software, etc. It is done.

  In addition, among the elements to be realized, the mode of the information storage means is arbitrary, and can be realized in any data format such as a file on the storage device 7, or may be remote storage by network computing (cloud). The storage means may include not only a data storage area but also functions such as data input / output and management. In addition, the unit of the storage means shown in this application is for convenience of explanation, and the configuration can be divided or integrated as appropriate, and the processing data and processing results of each means are stored in addition to the explicit storage means. A storage means is used as appropriate.

  The arrows in the figure (for example, FIG. 1) supplementarily indicate the main direction of the flow of data, control, etc., and do not deny other flows or imply direction limitations. For example, when data is acquired in a certain direction, a prior data request and a subsequent acknowledge (ACK) are transmitted in the reverse direction. In addition, each means other than the storage means is a processing means for realizing and executing the information processing functions and operations (for example, FIG. 3) as described below, but these are functional units arranged for explanation. It doesn't matter if it matches the actual hardware elements or software modules.

[2. Effect)
In the apparatus 1 configured as described above, as illustrated in FIG. 4, a processing procedure for displaying the related information of the phrase displayed in the first region R1 on the display screen G in the second region R2 is illustrated. 3 is a flowchart.

[2-1. (Evaluation value acquisition and phrase identification)
That is, for the information acquired by the display information acquisition unit 10, first, the first display unit 20 displays (may be updated) information including a character string in the first region R1 of the display screen G (step S21). The content of the information to be displayed is arbitrary, and it is conceivable to display news articles and entertainment field information provided via the communication network N in a mobile environment in the form of web contents, application programs, and the like.

  And the evaluation value acquisition means 30 acquires an evaluation value for every word in the character string currently displayed on 1st area | region R1 (step S22). At this time, the processing for identifying the phrase from the character string is performed by the phrase extraction unit 25 using a language processing technique such as morphological analysis. Here, the length of the character string subject to morphological analysis is arbitrary and may be as short as a few characters. If there are more examples of a single phrase on a web page, etc. The sequence and the phrase may result in the same number of characters. Further, the evaluation value acquiring unit 30 may cause the word extracting unit 25 to identify the word / phrase after removing information that is not targeted as a word / phrase for acquiring the evaluation value from the information displayed in the first region R1. good. Here, the information that is not targeted as the phrase for acquiring the evaluation value includes, for example, page configuration information such as header / footer information and index information of the page displayed in the first region R1, or an advertisement material for displaying an advertisement. There is information about.

  When the evaluation value of the word is acquired by the evaluation value acquiring unit 30, the word specifying unit 40 specifies a word whose acquired evaluation value is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference (step S23). Here, the content of the evaluation value is free. For example, the so-called number of appearances that a word appears in the document (a unit of information such as a web page or an article), the number of appearances that the word appears in a document group of a predetermined range or a predetermined genre. And the frequency of appearance, the number of hits when the word is searched using the search key (search query), and the number of web searches using that word as the search key (so-called buzzword) Things can be considered. Specifically, the evaluation value “above a predetermined standard” can be freely set such that only the first rank is targeted or a predetermined number is targeted from the top.

  As another example, the evaluation value acquisition means 30 may acquire an evaluation value for each word according to the current time from a comparison table (for example, FIG. 2) in which the evaluation value according to the time is associated with the word. . Here, “time” broadly means not only the season and day, but also the time range, that is, the time condition. The evaluation value associated with the time may be the evaluation value itself, but as illustrated in FIG. 2, if weights and coefficients to be added to the evaluation value such as the number of appearances are used, elements reflected in the evaluation value are multifaceted. Thus, a more appropriate phrase can be specified.

[2-2. (Retrieving and displaying related information)
Subsequently, the information acquisition unit 50 acquires information on the specified word / phrase as related information to be displayed via the communication network N at a predetermined update interval (step S31: “YES”) (step S24). That is, information related to a specified word and acquired at a predetermined update interval as described above is referred to as related information. And the 2nd display means 60 displays the acquired related information on 2nd area | region R2 on the display screen G (step S26).

  The content of the related information acquired and displayed in this way is free, and examples include tweets (tweets) on miniblogs, reviews posted on SNS, posts on other electronic bulletin boards, newspapers and news agencies, etc. May be a news article that is distributed or posted on a website. For example, in FIG. 4, as related information i1 of the phrase “Company Y” in the first region R1, a miniblog posting article that asks for evaluation of the function provided by Company Y, that is, a tweet, is displayed in the second region R2. . The second area R2 on which the second display means 60 displays the related information on the display screen G is not limited to the lower part of the first area R1, but is arranged at the upper part, the right part or the left part of the first area R1. Also good. Furthermore, the second region R2 may be arranged on the first region R1 to display the related information transparently. In FIG. 5, the related information i1 is transparently displayed on the first region R1. A so-called modal display may be used in which the original screen cannot be operated until the button BX is operated.

  As related information to be displayed in the second region R2 as described above, in the present embodiment, the information acquisition unit 50 acquires post information registered or updated after a predetermined date and time. Here, “after a predetermined date and time” may be a fixed-length period based on the current time, for example, within one week, within one month, but, for example, based on the quantity of related information corresponding to the phrase For example, since three or more articles are acquired, if the fixed-length period is insufficient, the related information is enriched if the period is variable depending on conditions, such as going back to six months or one year ago. Whether the information is posting information can be determined based on whether a domain name, a subdomain name, a directory name, or the like is included in a list prepared in advance.

[2-3. Various display modes]
The mode of displaying the related information is also free. For example, the related information may be displayed as soon as the related information is acquired. It is conceivable that the related information is displayed after waiting for “request operation” (step S25: “YES”) (step S26). As the display request operation, for example, a slide operation in which the lower end of the first region is pulled downward with a fingertip on the touch panel screen, or a predetermined portion of the screen may be tapped or the main body may be shaken.

  Further, when displaying the related information for each of the plurality of words (step S27: “YES”), the second display unit 60 does not display the plurality of related information at once as a reduced display or a scrolling page. It is conceivable to display in a display form that appears by sliding in the order of the evaluation values of the corresponding phrases (step S28). Here, the “display mode that slides in the order of the evaluation value of the corresponding word” means that the related information of the word with the highest evaluation value is displayed first, and then the next related information is automatically displayed at predetermined time intervals. The mode may be switched to, or the mode may be switched after waiting for a predetermined operation such as touch with a finger.

  In this way, it is possible to freely express the visual effect such as the direction, speed, and speed change of “slide and appear” when the related information is switched. For example, a certain related information (miniblog tweet) i1 is displayed. From the state of FIG. 4, as shown in FIG. 6, another related information i <b> 2 (news article) is displayed in a display mode in which it slides from right to left in the longitudinal direction of the second region R <b> 2 and appears in FIG. 7. Switch to the display state.

  Further, the details for displaying the related information may be switched. For example, the states of FIGS. 4, 5, and 7 are states in which the second display unit 60 displays related information in a first mode that includes only a part of the text. In addition, an operation predetermined as an operation for requesting a detailed display may be determined freely such as an operation of tapping the button B displayed as “>> More” in the related information of the first aspect, This is called “display operation”.

  In this case, the second display means 60 waits for the detailed display operation of tapping the button B (step S29: “YES”), and the related information is more detailed than the first mode (FIGS. 4, 5, and 6). Display in the second mode (step S30). Although the specific content of the second aspect is also free, illustrations are omitted because they may be the same as conventional ones such as a page that can list tweets of contributors of miniblogs and a display page that includes the entire text of the corresponding news article.

[3. Effect)
As described above, in the present embodiment, information on a phrase whose evaluation value is a predetermined value or more among words in a page used by the user on the screen is displayed in another area on the same screen (for example, FIG. 4). This eliminates the need for the user to take a new procedure such as inputting a target character string into the search window in order to obtain information. For this reason, it becomes possible to display easily the information regarding the phrase in the content on the screen without special operation.

  In particular, in this embodiment, posting information registered or updated after a predetermined date and time is acquired as information (step S24) and displayed, so that fresh information regarding words in the content can be easily obtained without any special operation. Therefore, it is possible to promote the utilization of useful information.

  Further, in the present embodiment, the evaluation value for each word is acquired from the comparison table (for example, FIG. 2) in which the evaluation value corresponding to the time is associated with the word, so that the word or phrase for displaying the information can be displayed as a season or a time zone. Therefore, the information value for the user can be increased.

  Further, in the present embodiment, when information such as search results is displayed for each of a plurality of words, the information is displayed so as to slide in the order of evaluation values of the words (for example, FIG. 6). Thereby, the limited display area can be effectively used by switching display, scrolling, and the like, and the user can be made aware of the change of display by sliding movement. Therefore, it is possible to realize a user interface that is easy to see and natural.

  In the present embodiment, information is displayed according to a predetermined user operation (step S25). Thus, until the user wants to see the information and performs the operation, the second area is used for advertisements and other appropriate displays, or the second area itself is not displayed and the area is also the first area. It can be used effectively to display the area.

  In addition, in this embodiment, by waiting for a predetermined selection operation (step S29) and displaying more detailed information, when displaying the detailed information, the entire screen is used or the second area is relative. It is possible to flexibly adopt an easy-to-see display mode, such as enlargement.

[4. Second Embodiment]
In the above-described embodiment (referred to as “first embodiment”), a phrase is specified based on a character string of content such as news acquired via the Internet or the like. Not only the character string displayed via the net etc., but the character string which the user has input on the screen of the application may be used. An example of this case is shown in FIG.

  The application displaying the screen of FIG. 8 is stored in the device 1 which is a portable information terminal in order to realize a specific information processing function (also referred to as “specific function”) different from the display of related information. Is. Examples of “specific information processing functions” here include functions that can be completed on the terminal, such as a memo function that edits and stores character strings and address books, and searches for information by accessing a predetermined web server. The function may be based on information communication with the outside.

  There are various examples of such functions, such as providing so-called finance information related to economy and finance, route search providing railway routes, transfer, operation failure information, etc., functions called route search and transfer guidance, etc. As is known, in the second embodiment shown in FIG. 8, a cooking recipe is searched for in the first region R1 based on the character string input in the keyword input field R11 and displayed in the search result display field R12. Suppose it is a search app.

  In this example, the evaluation value acquisition means 30 and the phrase specifying means 40 are character strings based on the text displayed by the user's input in the keyword input field R11 of the first region R1, which is the input field displayed by the application. The phrase is specified as (Step S23). In the example of FIG. 8, a cooking recipe is searched based on the character string “eel” input in the keyword input field R11, and cooking recipes such as “hitsumabushi” and “easy boiled potato” and their headings are displayed in the search result display field R12. On the other hand, in the second area R2, a news article is displayed as related information of “eel”.

  FIG. 9 shows an example of the screen when the above-mentioned specific function is route search (transfer guidance). There are two keyword input fields R11 in the first area R1 as a departure station and a destination station. While searching for a transit route such as a railroad and displaying it in the search result display field R12, as a related information including the word / phrase of the character string input in at least one field of the departure station or the arrival station, 2 It is displayed in region R2.

  Thus, in the second embodiment, for example, text input in a so-called application input field installed in a portable information terminal such as a smartphone in order to realize a specific function other than information display, such as route search and recipe search. By specifying a word from data, information related to an input character string can be easily displayed and browsed without any special operation while using a specific function, thereby improving the utility value of the application.

[5. Other embodiments]
In addition, the said embodiment is only an illustration and this invention includes what is illustrated below and other embodiment other than that. For example, the configuration diagrams, data diagrams, flowcharts, and the like in the present application are merely examples, and the presence / absence of each element, the order of the arrangement and processing execution, and the specific contents can be changed as appropriate. In addition, the mode of realizing the individual means constituting the apparatus 1 is free, and the function provided by the external server is called by API (application program interface) or network computing (so-called cloud). For example, the configuration of the present invention can be flexibly changed. Furthermore, each element such as means relating to the present invention may be realized by other information processing mechanisms such as a physical electronic circuit as well as a computer control unit.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Information display apparatus 6 Computation control part 7 Memory | storage device 8 Communication means 20 First display means 30 Evaluation value acquisition means 40 Phrase specification means 50 Information acquisition means 60 Second display means B, BX Button G Display screen i1, i2 Related information N Communication network R1 First area R11 Keyword input field R12 Search result display field R2 Second area

Claims (9)

First display means for displaying content including character strings in the first area of the screen;
Evaluation value acquisition means for acquiring an evaluation value for each word in a character string included in the content displayed in the first area;
A phrase specifying means for specifying the phrase whose acquired evaluation value is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference;
Information acquisition means for repeatedly acquiring post information related to the phrase specified by the phrase specifying means at a predetermined update time via a communication network;
Each time the posted information is acquired by the information acquiring means, a second display means for updating and displaying the posted information in the second area on the screen;
An information display device comprising: The information acquisition unit, the information display device according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring the post information registered or updated after the date and time stipulated Me pre.   The information according to claim 1, wherein the evaluation value acquisition unit acquires an evaluation value for each word according to a current time from a comparison table in which an evaluation value according to a time is associated with a word. Display device. Said second display means, when displaying the post information for a plurality of the phrases, claims and displaying the post information in a display mode that appears to slide in the order of the evaluation value of the corresponding word Item 4. The information display device according to any one of Items 1 to 3. Said second display means, information display according to display the post information waiting a predetermined operation from claim 1, wherein in any one of 4 as an operation for requesting display of post information apparatus. The second display means displays the posted information in a first mode, waits for an operation predetermined as an operation for requesting a detailed display, and displays the posted information in a second mode that is more detailed than the first mode. 6. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the information display device displays the information. The evaluation value acquisition means and the phrase specifying means are input fields displayed by an application program stored in a portable information terminal to realize a specific information processing function different from the display of the posted information. The information display device according to claim 2, wherein the phrase is specified by using text displayed by input in one area as the character string. An evaluation value acquisition process for acquiring an evaluation value for each word in the character string included in the content displayed in the first area of the screen connected to the computer ;
A phrase specifying process for specifying the phrase whose acquired evaluation value is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference;
Information acquisition processing for repeatedly acquiring post information relating to the specified phrase via a communication network at a predetermined update time ;
The obtained the post information, a second display processing of displaying updated to the second area on the screen every time acquiring the post information,
An information display method characterized in that a computer executes. By controlling the computer
Obtaining an evaluation value for each word in the character string included in the content displayed in the first area of the screen connected to the computer ;
Specifying the word / phrase whose acquired evaluation value is equal to or higher than a predetermined criterion;
Post information regarding the specified phrase is repeatedly acquired at a predetermined update time via a communication network,
The obtained the post information, the information display program for causing display and update the second area on the screen every time to get the post information.

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