JP5811208B2 - Content browsing apparatus, content browsing apparatus control method, program, content browsing system, and content browsing system control method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a technology for browsing content on a mobile terminal.

  In recent years, information distribution through the Internet has become common, and articles such as newspapers, books, magazines, and the like that have been browsed on paper media can be browsed from a PC or a mobile terminal.

  The provision of content through the Internet is recognized only as a means of providing information as a bulletin, and detailed information such as the circumstances of the incident, summary, related information, and reporter's consideration, etc., is available in newspapers and magazines after a certain amount of time since the incident occurred. Information is generally provided as an article.

  On the other hand, newspapers provided in paper media are positioned as the best medium for obtaining detailed information about an incident, and the arrangement method is used so that a serious incident can be recognized at a glance by the article arrangement technology. ing.

  Because the information layout differs between the newspaper page on paper media and the article information viewed on the Internet, the viewer must browse the article information on the server with an awareness of the information layout different from the newspaper page. However, the article information placement technology that has been cultivated for many years on newspapers has not been utilized in network distribution.

  As a merit of browsing newspapers in the same layout as paper media, the persuasive power of being “newspaper” itself can be enhanced.

  In addition, the article information arrangement technology cultivated for many years by newspaper companies can maintain the readability and listability of articles.

  For the above reasons, a technique for distributing newspapers as electronic contents (hereinafter referred to as contents) and subscribing on the Internet instead of newspapers and news as one-line information is also disclosed. There is also a service that provides information to the user in an arrangement format of article information on the newspaper itself by enabling browsing.

  In Patent Literature 1, in an electronic newspaper system, an article headline transmitted from a center apparatus is displayed on a user terminal, and an operator selects an article headline to be viewed on the user terminal, whereby the corresponding article is read from the center apparatus. A mechanism is disclosed in which text data and images are transmitted and the text data can be viewed on a user terminal.

  In Patent Document 2, there is no stress on a user terminal connected to a network through a low-speed public line by distributing a so-called skeleton newspaper in which only header information is arranged on a newspaper surface from a server to a terminal device. A mechanism capable of displaying heading information is disclosed.

  In Patent Document 3, when a terminal user is displaying a paper image on a screen, any material (article, image, etc.) and related material (article, image, paper) arranged in the paper image are displayed. In other words, a mechanism is disclosed in which the position information is stored in association with each other and a related material is selected and displayed in a separate window.

JP-A-8-292957 JP 2002-236701 A JP 2008-287606 A

  However, in the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1, when an article headline desired to be viewed on the user terminal side is selected, the text data and image data of the article corresponding to the article headline are transmitted from the center device side each time. Therefore, on the screen displayed on the user terminal, only text data and images (specifically, HTML format) are displayed, not the paper image of the newspaper itself, so how important is the article you are looking at? In addition, the user cannot recognize the original position in the paper image.

  In addition, the invention disclosed in Patent Document 2 assumes that a stationary terminal is used, that is, has a display area capable of displaying most of the newspaper image. It has become. For this reason, in a portable terminal having only a small display area, only a part of the newspaper image can be displayed, so that the user cannot grasp the entire newspaper image and is difficult to understand. In addition, in order to display an article to be viewed, it is necessary to designate a headline on the paper, and such an operation also has a problem that it is difficult to operate on a portable terminal having only a small display.

  Further, since the invention disclosed in Patent Document 3 assumes that related materials (articles, images, paper, etc.) are displayed in a separate window, there is only a small display area and there is only one window. In a portable terminal that cannot be displayed, there is a problem that the article headline and the paper image of the article cannot be displayed in separate windows. In addition, since the article corresponding to the article headline is displayed in a separate window, the user cannot grasp the entire newspaper image, making it difficult to understand.

  In addition, there is a known system that displays the image of a newspaper as it is on a high-performance mobile device called a smartphone. On mobile devices that do not have a mouse or quick wheel, scrolling to search for the target article or article If the enlargement / reduction operation is to be enlarged and displayed, the browsing becomes complicated from the viewpoint of operability, and there is a possibility that it is difficult to understand what article exists at which position on the page.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to allow a content browsing apparatus that displays content articles to receive a plurality of articles associated with the headlines in the display area of the content browsing apparatus when selection of a plurality of headlines associated with the content articles is received. It is to be displayed so as to be viewable in a size appropriate for the size .

The present invention, in a content browsing device for displaying an article of content for the user to browse, the article of the content for the user to browse, position information indicating the position in the content of the plurality of articles, Storage means for storing a headline corresponding to the content article, headline display means for displaying a headline for the content article associated with the content, and selection of the headline displayed by the headline display means Position information on the screen of the article of the content associated with the headline stored in the storage means when a selection of a plurality of headings is received by the headline selection receiving means and the headline selection receiving means And the information of the size of the article, In order to simultaneously display the content corresponding to the plurality of selected headings with a size appropriate to the size of the area, the scaling change means for changing the scaling ratio of the size of the content, and the display area of the content browsing device, And display means for simultaneously displaying contents corresponding to the plurality of selected headings using the enlargement / reduction ratio of the size changed by the enlargement / reduction changing means .

According to the present invention, in a content browsing apparatus that displays content articles, when selection of a plurality of headlines associated with a content article is received, the plurality of articles associated with the headline are set to the size of the display area of the content browsing apparatus. It becomes possible to display it in an appropriate size so that it can be viewed .

1 is a system configuration diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of the present invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the hardware constitutions of the management server 102 in this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of a function structure of the content display browsing system in this invention. It is a sequence diagram showing the display method of the content display browsing apparatus in this invention. It is a flowchart of the production | generation (server side) of the content displayed with the content display browsing apparatus in this invention. It is an image of bibliographic information used for content generation in the present invention. 6 is an image of an article heading table used for content display control in the present invention. It is a flowchart for the browsing of the content in this invention. It is a flowchart at the time of the content reception in this invention. It is an example of the content image displayed on the client terminal 101 in this invention. It is an example of the content image displayed on the client terminal 101 in this invention. It is a flowchart for the browsing of the content in this invention. It is an example of the content image displayed on the client terminal 101 in this invention. It is an example of the content image displayed on the client terminal 101 in this invention. It is an example of the content image displayed on the client terminal 101 in this invention. It is an example of the content image displayed on the client terminal 101 in this invention.

(First embodiment)
A first embodiment of the present invention will be described.
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an example of an embodiment of a content display browsing system of the present invention.

  In FIG. 1, a page image and bibliographic information data are distributed from a typesetting server (database server) existing in a newspaper company to a management server 102, and managed in response to a content acquisition request of a client terminal 101 via wireless communication. The content requested from the server 102 is distributed.

  In the present invention, the typesetting server (typesetting database) and the DB server (database) utilize those existing in the content provider (in the present invention, a newspaper company).

  In FIG. 1, a client terminal 101 is a device for viewing and browsing content in the present invention, and is assumed to be a portable terminal represented by a mobile phone. The client terminal 101 issues a content acquisition request to the management server 102, acquires the content stored and managed in the management server 102, and displays the content in a state that can be browsed by the user.

  The management server 102 is a server provided by a content distributor, and has a content formatting function, a content generation function, and a distribution function. In the present invention, the management server 102 has the above-mentioned three functions all together, but the configuration is not limited to this. For example, a typesetting server is installed at a content provider (for example, a newspaper company). It may be configured such that the trader includes a content generation server and a content distribution server.

  The database 103 stores and manages paper images and bibliographic items for generating content for the client terminal 101.

  FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram of the client terminal 101.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the client terminal 101 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 201, a ROM 202, a RAM 203, a system bus 204, an input controller 205, a video controller 206, a memory controller 207, and a communication I / F controller 208. 204 is connected.

  For example, the input controller 205 includes a keyboard (input device) 209, the video controller 206 includes, for example, an output unit 210 typified by a display (CRT), and the memory controller 207 includes a hard disk (hereinafter referred to as HD) 211 and a USB interface (not compatible). As shown).

  In FIG. 2, the CPU 201 comprehensively controls each device connected to the system bus 204. The ROM 202 or the external memory 211 stores an operating system (OS) that is a control program of the CPU 201 and programs for realizing various functions described later of each server or each client.

  The RAM 203 functions as a main memory, work area, temporary save area, and the like for the CPU 201.

  The input controller 205 controls input from the input unit 209. Examples of the input unit 209 include a pointing device such as a keyboard and a mouse in a terminal such as a server or a client.

  The video controller 206 controls the display of the output unit 210. Examples of the output unit 210 include a CRT and a liquid crystal display.

  The memory controller 207 controls access to the external memory 211 that stores a boot program, various applications, font data, user files, edit files, printer drivers, and the like. In addition, the memory controller 207 stores various tables and parameters for realizing various functions of each server or each client.

Examples of the external memory 211 include a hard disk (HD), a floppy (registered trademark) disk (FD), a compact flash (registered trademark) connected to a PCMCIA card slot via an adapter, and smart media.
The communication I / F controller 208 executes communication control processing with an external device via the network 100.

  Note that a program 212 for realizing the present invention is recorded in the external memory 211 and is executed by the CPU 201 by being loaded into the RAM 203 as necessary.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a functional configuration of the content display browsing system according to the present invention.

  The client terminal 101 includes, for example, an operation control unit 111, an acquisition request transmission unit 112, a data reception unit 113, a display control unit 114, and a content storage unit 115.

  The operation control unit 111 receives a button operation of the client terminal 101 by a user and a panel operation of the client terminal 101 having a touch panel, and controls the operation.

  The acquisition request transmission unit 112 communicates with the management server 102 and makes a content data acquisition request from the client terminal 101 to the management server 102.

  The data receiving unit 113 communicates with the management server 102 and receives content data distributed from the management server 102 to the client terminal 101.

  The display control unit 114 controls display of content data received from the management server 102 on a display or the like.

  The content storage unit 115 stores and stores content data received from the management server 102 and an article heading table.

  The management server 102 includes, for example, a content generation unit 116, an acquisition request reception unit 117, and a content distribution unit 118.

  The content generation unit 116 generates content for distribution to the client terminal 101.

  The acquisition request receiving unit 117 communicates with the client terminal 101 and receives a content data acquisition request from the client terminal 101 to the management server 102.

  The content distribution unit 118 communicates with the client terminal 101 and transmits content data to be distributed from the management server 102 to the client terminal 101.

  In the present invention, it is assumed that the management server 102 is a server having both functions as the content generation server and the content distribution server. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and content generation is performed separately from the management server 102. In a system in which a server and a content distribution server are installed, each includes a content generation unit 116, an acquisition request reception unit 117, and a content distribution unit 118.

  The database 103 includes a paper image storage unit 120 and a heading table storage unit 121.

  FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram showing a display method of the content display browsing apparatus according to the present invention.

  When the image data of the newspaper to be distributed on the provider side is finalized (depressed), content for distribution to the client terminal 101 is generated in the content generation server in step S401. The content generation method will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  In this specification, “content” refers to “paper image” displayed in the paper image display area 1001 of the client terminal 101, article headings of articles described in the paper image, position information on the paper image of articles, and The term “article heading table” in which the article width and the size are stored in association with each other is a generic term.

  When content generation is completed in step S402, the generated content is received by the content distribution unit 118.

  In step S <b> 403, the management server 102 receives the content generated by the content distribution unit 118 and waits for a content data distribution request from the client terminal 101. (S404)

  In step S <b> 405, the acquisition request transmission unit 112 of the client terminal 101 transmits an acquisition request for content desired to be browsed to the management server 102 at an arbitrary timing of the user.

  Specifically, when a newspaper that has been browsed by a user using a web service from a mobile terminal is available for distribution, the user receives a button operation by the user to receive a distribution request for the content desired to be browsed (subscribed). Send a distribution request to the distributor's server.

  In step S406, the acquisition request reception unit 117 of the management server 102 receives the content acquisition request transmitted from the client terminal 101.

  In step S407, the management server 102 specifies the content of the acquisition request target received from the client terminal 101. In step S408, the content distribution unit 118 of the management server 102 retrieves the content received in step S404 from the database. Obtain and distribute to the client terminal 101.

In step S409, the client terminal 101 receives the content distributed from the management server 102, and performs processing for displaying the content on the client terminal 101. (S410)
A processing method for displaying content will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

  The content data generation flow in the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. 5, FIG. 6, and FIG.

In step S501, the management server 102 acquires content text data, a paper image, and position information on the content coordinates from the typesetting server or DB server unit.
In step S502, bibliographic information is acquired from the typesetting server or DB server.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of bibliographic information that the management server 102 acquires from the DB server unit in step S502.

  The bibliographic information 600 includes a <header> tag 601 in which basic information of a corresponding paper image is described, an <article> tag 603 included in each page, a <heading> tag 604, and a <sleeve heading> tag 605 of each article. , <Text> tag 606, <position information> tag 607, and the like.

  In the <header> tag 601, for example, date information and publication information (in the case of newspaper, morning / evening are identified) are described.

  The <page> tag 602 describes information indicating the page number on the paper. Each page is delimited by <page> to </ page>, and the </ page> tag indicates the end of the corresponding page (610).

An <article> tag 603 describes an article included in each page. <Article>-</ Article> are regarded as one article.
A <Heading> tag 604 describes the heading of an article included in each page.

For example, if an article such as “Tanimura runner-up, Olympic ticket acquisition” is described on one page of the page, it is described as “<Heading> Tanimura runner-up, Olympic ticket acquisition </ heading>”. .
A <Sleeve Heading> tag 605 describes a sleeve heading of an article included in each page.

  An <article> tag 606 describes the text of an article included in each page. For example, if the article is “Tanimura runner-up, Olympic ticket acquisition”, the content of the article is described.

A <position information> tag 607 describes position information on the page of an article included in each page in a coordinate format.
For example, the description is <coordinate> 123, 45 </ coordinate> in <stage> 1 </ stage>.
Subsequently, the description returns to the flowchart of FIG.

  In step S <b> 503, the management server 102 detects the <heading> tag 603 from the contents of the bibliographic information 600. There may be one <headline> tag 603 or a plurality of bibliographic information 600. The management server 102 stores the article headline described in the detected <heading> tag in the heading table shown in FIG.

In step S504, the <position information> tag 607 is detected from the bibliographic information in which the <heading> tag 604 is detected in step S503. The position information detected here is such that the horizontal axis of the page is x and the vertical axis is y, the upper right position of the page is detected, and the position information is stored in the article heading table (FIG. 7).

Here, a table storing the information of the <heading> tag 604 detected in S503 and the information of the <position information> tag 607 detected in S504 will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 7 is an example of the article heading table 700 on the paper.

  A heading 702 indicates information described in the <heading> tag 604 detected in step S503 described above. For example, in step S503, when the heading “First trial opening in which a judge participates in the judge system” is detected, the same information is also stored in the heading 701.

The position information 703 indicates information described in the <position information> tag 607 detected in step S504 described above. For example, if the position on the x-axis at the upper right vertex of the corresponding article is “123” and the position on the y-axis is “45”, the position information (123, 45) is stored in the position information 703.
The position information 703 is information detected from the <page> tag 601 of the bibliographic information 600 and stored.

  In the management server 102, the article heading table 700 is generated from the bibliographic information 600. Based on the article heading table 700, the client terminal 101 displays the article heading and scrolls to the corresponding coordinates when the article heading is clicked so that the user can browse the article with a simple operation. To do.

  Returning to the flowchart of FIG.

  In step S505, it is determined whether or not the processing of S503 and S504 has been performed on all articles in each page. Specifically, S503 and S504 are repeated for all <article> tags 603 existing in <page> to </ page> of the <page> tag of the bibliographic information 600. If headings and position information are not detected for all <article> tags 603, the process returns to S503 and the process is repeated. If all processes are completed, the process proceeds to step S506.

  In step S506, it is determined whether or not the processing of S503 and S504 has been performed for all <page> tags 601 of the bibliographic information 600. Specifically, S503 and S504 are repeated for all <article> tags 603 in the (610) places of <page> to </ page> of the <page> tag of the bibliographic information 600. If headings and position information are not detected for all <page> tags 601, the process returns to S503 and the process is repeated. If all the processes are completed, the process proceeds to step S507.

  In S507, the “paper image” acquired in S501 and the “article heading table” generated from the bibliographic information 600 in S503 to S506 are encoded to generate (archive) content.

  Next, a series of processing of display, article selection and browsing at the time of content reception described in step S407 described above will be described using the flowchart of FIG.

  Note that this flowchart is triggered by the content acquisition request from the client terminal 101 in step S405.

  In step S <b> 801, the client terminal 101 displays the page image and the article headline of the content for which the data acquisition request has been made in the page image display area 1001 and the article headline display area 1002 of the client terminal 101. A specific display method will be described in detail in step S901 of FIG.

  In step S <b> 802, the client terminal 101 determines whether selection of a headline displayed in the article headline display area 1002 has been received by a user operation. Depending on the performance of the client terminal 101, a direct pressing method using a touch panel may be used, a click cursor may be moved in the display of the client terminal 101 and a selection method may be used, or a selection method using a button operation may be used. The method of accepting selection is not particularly limited in the present invention.

  If it is not determined that the article headline part has been selected, the designated separate processing is executed. (Step S806)

  If it is determined that the article headline part has been selected, in step S803, the client terminal 101 identifies the selected (or pressed) coordinate position on the display.

  In step S804, the client terminal 101 specifies an article headline corresponding to the coordinate position selected in step S801.

  In step S805, the client terminal 101 specifies the position information of the article corresponding to the selected article heading. The identification method acquires information from the position information 703 in FIG. 7 stored in the client terminal 101.

  In step S807, by using the information of the position information specified in S805, the display position is scrolled so that the position information matches the upper right of the display of the client terminal 101.

  As a scrolling method, for example, the horizontal axis of the display is used as the X coordinate, the scroll is performed to the coordinate position specified from the currently displayed position information, and the vertical axis of the display is used as the Y coordinate. A method of scrolling to the coordinate position specified from the position information is taken. The screen scrolling method is achieved by using a known technique, and is not limited in the present invention.

  By selecting the headline of an article to be browsed by a user operation through the processes in steps S801 to S807, a smooth automatic scroll process for the article can be realized.

FIG. 9A is a flowchart relating to the content display processing when the client terminal 101 makes a content data acquisition request to the management server 102 in step S801 described above.
In step S901, the client terminal 101 receives content data.

In step S902, the client terminal 101 decodes the received content data into a paper image and an article heading table.
The decoding process will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 9B.

  In step S <b> 905, the client terminal 101 separates the paper image from the received content data and stores it in a predetermined position on the client terminal 101. The paper image is composed of image data and text data displayed in the content.

  In step S <b> 906, the client terminal 101 separates the article heading table 700 from the content data and stores the article heading table 700 in a predetermined position on the client terminal 101.

  In step S <b> 907, the client terminal 101 stores and stores the paper image and the article heading table in a predetermined position of the client terminal 101.

  In step S903 of FIG. 9A, the client terminal 101 displays the page image stored and stored in step S907 in the page image display area 1001.

  In step S904, the client terminal 101 displays the article headline in the article headline display area 1002 of the client terminal 101 in FIG. As a display method, a page matching the page displayed in S903 is searched from the position information 703 stored in the article heading table 700 of FIG. 7, and the heading corresponding to the content is used using all the headings 701 of the corresponding page. Is acquired and displayed.

  FIG. 10 is an example of content displayed on the screen of the client terminal 101.

  A paper image display area 1001 is an area for displaying a paper image of the content received by the client terminal 101.

  The headline display area 1002 is an area for displaying a list of articles described in the paper image being displayed on the client terminal 101.

  The user can smoothly browse a desired article by selecting (or touching) the article displayed in the headline display area 1002.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display process when the article headline display area 1002 is touched on the screen of the client terminal 101.

  When clicking “Tanimura runner-up, Olympic ticket acquisition” of the article heading 1102 with the click cursor 1101 in FIG. 11A (touching if it is a touch panel), the client terminal 101 confirms that the article heading has been selected. It is detected (S802). When the client terminal 101 receives the content of FIG. 7, the client terminal 101 stores and stores the article heading table of FIG. 7 (S907), and specifies the selected article heading from the clicked (or touched) coordinate information. (S804)

When the article headline is specified, the position information of the clicked (or touched) article headline is specified from the article heading table of FIG. 7 (S805).
The client terminal 101 is scrolled to a predetermined position using the API (S807).

  When a part other than the headline display area 1002 (such as a paper image display area 1001) is clicked on the screen of the client terminal 101 having a touch panel, screen control processing (enlarged / decreased) for each client terminal 101 is selected. Execute reduction, scrolling, etc.).

  By using the content display browsing system and the content display browsing apparatus of the present invention, the paper image of the content itself is displayed on the portable terminal, and at the same time, the article on the paper image is accessed with a simple operation with the optimum size. By displaying, it is possible to provide a more convenient operation method for the subscriber.

  Specifically, by storing the image of the content, the headline of the article described in the content, and the location information of the article on the paper, when the article is selected on the screen, Since it is possible to scroll the screen to the desired article and display it, even readers who do not read newspaper articles can browse articles of interest from a single line of information, and to readers of a wide range of generations It becomes possible to give an opportunity to view the content.

(Second embodiment)

In the first embodiment of the present invention, when the headline is clicked by the user, the invention for specifying and displaying the content to be displayed from the positional information stored in association with the headline has been described. As a second embodiment, a mode in which the content display method changes according to a method of clicking a headline by a user will be described.
In addition, the description about the location which becomes the same process as 1st embodiment is abbreviate | omitted.

FIG. 12 explains a series of processing of display, article selection and browsing at the time of content reception in the second embodiment of the present invention.
S1201 and S1202 perform the same processing as S801 and S802 of FIG.

  In step S1203, the client terminal 101 determines an article selection method when a user operation is accepted. As a determination method, determination is performed using a processing rule for an operation defined in the client terminal 101, which will be described with reference to FIG. 13, and subsequent screen display processing is performed.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example of a determination rule when the client terminal 101 determines a user operation in S1203.
The operation (click) described in the first embodiment of the present invention is defined as “1 selection method”.

  The operation (double click or two touches) described in the second embodiment of the present invention is defined as “two selection methods”.

  The operation (simultaneously clicking a plurality of headings) described in the fourth embodiment of the present invention is defined as “selection method 3”.

  Reference numeral 1301 denotes an example of a user operation accepted by the client terminal 101.

  Reference numeral 1302 denotes a display method corresponding to a user operation, which is predetermined as a system of the client terminal 101.

  For example, if it is determined that a click (or touch) operation has been received, the upper right position information of the content is specified and the page image display area 1001 is scrolled as described in the first embodiment.

  If it is determined that a double-click (or two consecutive touches) operation has been accepted, the page width and height of the content are specified, and the entire image of the target article is displayed on the display of the client terminal 101 in a scaled size. Let

Further, in the present invention, even when it is determined that a long click (long press) operation has been received, the size of the entire image of the target article can be displayed on the display of the client terminal 101 by specifying the paper image width and height of the content. Performs the process of displaying the image at a scaled size.
The list of processing rules in FIG. 13 is applied in the description of the first embodiment, the second embodiment, and the fourth embodiment of the present invention, and the relationship between user operations and the corresponding processing rules. Is not limited to this.

  As in the above two examples, the client terminal 101 predetermines a display rule for content corresponding to a user operation.

The subsequent processing will be described assuming that the user operation is determined to be double click in step S1203.
Steps S1204 and S1205 perform the same processing as S803 and S804.

In step S1206, the client terminal 101 specifies the article width and height corresponding to the selected headline from 704 of the article heading table in FIG.
In step S1207, the client terminal 101 displays a page image of content corresponding to the selected heading in accordance with the size of the page image display area 1001. At this time, using the information on the width and height of the paper image specified in S1206, the enlargement / reduction ratio is changed so that the entire paper image is displayed in the paper image display area 1001.

  Step S1208 performs the same processing as S807.

  When the change process is completed, the paper image after the enlargement / reduction is displayed in the paper image display area 1001.

  FIG. 14 is an example of screen control on which the page after the enlargement / reduction ratio change described with reference to FIG. 12 is displayed.

  If it is determined in S1203 that the article “Tanimura runner-up, Olympic ticket acquisition” 1402 is double-clicked with the click cursor 1401, in S1206, the enlargement / reduction ratio is displayed so that the entire paper image of the corresponding content is displayed. Will be changed and displayed.

As described above, according to the second embodiment of the present invention, the paper image of the content itself is displayed on the mobile terminal, and at the same time, the article on the paper image is accessed with a simple operation and displayed at the optimum size. Therefore, it is possible to provide a more convenient operation method for the subscriber.
(Third embodiment)

  In the first embodiment and the second embodiment of the present invention, the invention has been described in which the content corresponding to the headline is specified and displayed when the user clicks on the headline, but the third embodiment of the present invention. As a form, a content display method when a user receives a user operation in the paper image display area 1001 of the client terminal 101 during content browsing will be described.

  FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of screen display processing when the paper image display area 1001 is touched while browsing content on the screen of the client terminal 101.

  In the screen state as shown in FIG. 15A, it is assumed that the article “[Frontline of Special Feature]“ Rough School ... ”is displayed in half.

  In this state, when the part of the article is selected with the click cursor 1501, the article is identified from the position information of the selected paper image and displayed.

  FIG. 15B shows an example of a screen after clicking the paper image display area 1001. A paper image of [Frontier Special Feature] “Rough School Now ...” is displayed, and the headline of the article being displayed is displayed. It is displayed so that it can be identified (1502).

As described above, according to the third embodiment of the present invention, when an article in the same page of the page image of the content is clicked on the mobile terminal, the operation is more convenient for the subscriber by scrolling to the corresponding article. It becomes possible to provide a method.
(Fourth embodiment)

  In the first embodiment and the second embodiment of the present invention, the description has been given of the invention in which the content corresponding to the headline is specified and displayed when the user clicks the headline. The fourth embodiment of the present invention As a form, a display method of the paper image display area 1001 of the client terminal 101 when a plurality of headlines are simultaneously clicked by the user (corresponding to C in the rule of FIG. 13) will be described.

  FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an example of screen display processing when a plurality of headlines described in the headline display area 1002 are clicked (or touched) on the screen of the client terminal 101 according to the fourth embodiment of this invention.

  In the screen of FIG. 16A, the article “XX Gakuen's first wish of lust” occupies most of the paper image display area 1001.

In this case, it is determined in step S1203 in FIG. 12 that two headlines in the article headline display area 1002 (for example, “Tanimura runner-up ...” and “[front line] rough school ...”) are selected. The (Selection method 3 in FIG. 13)
In this case, assuming that the portion described as the selection method 2 in S1203 in the flowchart of FIG. 12 is the “selection method 3”, the subsequent processing will be described.

  In step S1205, the paper image position information 703 corresponding to the two selected headings is specified from the article heading table of FIG.

  In step S1206, the client terminal 101 identifies the article width and height 704 corresponding to the selected heading from the article heading table of FIG.

  In step S <b> 1207, the client terminal 101 displays a paper image of content corresponding to a plurality of selected headings in accordance with the size of the paper image display area 1001. At this time, using the information on the width and height of the paper image specified in S1206, the enlargement / reduction ratio is changed so that the entire paper image is displayed in the paper image display area 1001.

  As a method for calculating the enlargement / reduction ratio in this case, for example, the lower right vertex of the screen is set to a value of 0, and the rightmost X value of the position information of the paper image corresponding to the two selected headings is There is a method of calculating an enlargement / reduction ratio at which two paper images can be displayed simultaneously by obtaining the top Y value.

  Step S1208 performs the same processing as S807.

  In the fourth embodiment of the present invention, the calculated x coordinate and y coordinate are calculated with the upper right vertex of the screen as the value of 0, but for example, the upper right vertex of the screen is calculated as the value of 0. It is also possible to do. In that case, by obtaining the leftmost x-coordinate and the bottommost y-coordinate, it is possible to calculate the enlargement / reduction ratio at which two paper images can be displayed simultaneously.

  However, the calculation method may be determined by using a known calculation method, and is not particularly limited in the present invention.

  According to the above processing, as shown in FIG. 16B, the enlargement / reduction ratio is changed and displayed so that two articles in the content are displayed in the same screen. Note that the heading corresponding to the article being displayed may be identified and displayed as 1603.

  According to the fourth embodiment of the present invention, even when a plurality of articles are specified to be displayed simultaneously, it is possible to display a paper image of an article corresponding to the selected plurality of headings at an optimum size. Become.

  As described above, the present invention can take the form of, for example, a system, apparatus, method, program, recording medium, or the like. Specifically, the present invention may be applied to a system including a plurality of devices. In addition, the present invention may be applied to an apparatus composed of a single device.

  By supplying a recording medium recording a program for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments to a system or apparatus, and reading and executing the program stored in the recording medium by a computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus However, it goes without saying that the object of the present invention is achieved. In this case, the program itself read from the recording medium realizes the novel function of the present invention, and the recording medium storing the program constitutes the present invention.

  As a recording medium for supplying the program, for example, a flexible disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD-ROM, magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, ROM, EEPROM, silicon A disk or the like can be used.

  Further, by executing the program read by the computer, not only the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized, but also an OS (operating system) operating on the computer based on an instruction of the program is actually It goes without saying that a case where the function of the above-described embodiment is realized by performing part or all of the processing and the processing is included.

  Furthermore, after the program read from the recording medium is written to the memory provided in the function expansion board inserted into the computer or the function expansion unit connected to the computer, the function expansion board is based on the instructions of the program code. It goes without saying that the case where the CPU or the like provided in the function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

  The present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of one device. Needless to say, the present invention can be applied to a case where the present invention is achieved by supplying a program to a system or apparatus. In this case, by reading a recording medium storing a program for achieving the present invention into the system or apparatus, the system or apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention.

Furthermore, by downloading and reading a program for achieving the present invention from a server, database, etc. on a network by a communication program, the system or apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention.
In addition, all the structures which combined each embodiment mentioned above and its modification are also included in this invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Network 101 Client terminal 102 Management server 103 Database 111 Operation control part 112 Acquisition request transmission part 113 Content reception part 114 Display control part 115 Content storage part 116 Content generation part 117 Acquisition request reception part 118 Content distribution part 120 Paper image storage part 121 Heading table storage unit 122 Content storage unit 600 Bibliographic information 700 Article heading table 1000 Paper page image 1001 Paper page image display area 1002 Article heading display area 1101 Click cursor 1102 Selected heading 1103 Heading during article display

Claims (6)

In a content browsing device that displays content articles for users to browse,
Storage means for storing an article of the content to be browsed by the user, position information indicating a position of the article existing in the content, and a headline corresponding to the article of the content;
A headline display means for displaying a headline of an article of the content associated with the content;
A headline selection receiving means for receiving selection of the headline displayed by the headline display means;
When the selection of a plurality of headings among the headings is received by the headline selection receiving unit, the position information on the screen of the article of the content associated with the heading and the size of the article stored in the storage unit Using the information, the scaling change for changing the scaling ratio of the content in order to simultaneously display the content corresponding to the plurality of selected headings with a size suitable for the size of the display area of the content browsing device Means,
Display means for simultaneously displaying, in the display area of the content browsing device, the contents corresponding to the selected headings using the enlargement / reduction ratio of the size changed by the enlargement / reduction changing means;
A content browsing apparatus comprising: Receiving means for receiving encoded information obtained by encoding the content and the position information;
A decoding means for decoding the encoded information received by the receiving means to obtain the content and the position information;
The display hand stage, before SL on the basis of the position information of the decoded the content by decoding means, the content viewing apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that displaying the content. Corresponding to the article of the content for the user to browse, the position information indicating the position of the article in the content, and the article of the content to display the article of the content for the user to browse A content browsing apparatus having a storage means for storing a headline to be controlled,
A headline display step in which the headline display means of the content browsing device displays a headline of an article of the content associated with the content;
A headline selection receiving step of receiving a selection of the headline displayed by the headline display step, wherein the headline selection receiving means of the content browsing device;
When the enlargement / reduction means of the content browsing apparatus accepts selection of a plurality of headings from the headings in the heading selection accepting step, the content article screen associated with the headings stored in the storage means By using the position information and the information on the size of the article, the content corresponding to the plurality of selected headings is displayed at the same time in a size appropriate for the size of the display area of the content browsing device. A scaling change step for changing the scaling ratio of the size of
A display step in which the display means of the content browsing apparatus simultaneously displays the contents corresponding to the selected plurality of headings in the display area of the content browsing apparatus using the enlargement / reduction ratio of the size changed by the enlargement / reduction changing means. When,
The content browsing apparatus control method characterized by including. Corresponding to the article of the content for the user to browse, the position information indicating the position of the article in the content, and the article of the content to display the article of the content for the user to browse A program executed by a content browsing apparatus having a storage means for storing a headline to be recorded,
The content browsing device;
A headline display means for displaying a headline of an article of the content associated with the content;
A headline selection receiving means for receiving selection of the headline displayed by the headline display means;
When the selection of a plurality of headings among the headings is received by the headline selection receiving unit, the position information on the screen of the article of the content associated with the heading and the size of the article stored in the storage unit Using the information, the scaling change for changing the scaling ratio of the content in order to simultaneously display the content corresponding to the plurality of selected headings with a size suitable for the size of the display area of the content browsing device Means,
Display means for simultaneously displaying, in the display area of the content browsing device, the contents corresponding to the selected headings using the enlargement / reduction ratio of the size changed by the enlargement / reduction changing means;
A program characterized by functioning as A content browsing apparatus for displaying an article of content for a user to browse, an article of the content for the user to browse, position information indicating a position of the article in the content, and a article of the content A content browsing system in which a server having storage means for storing a heading corresponding to the above is connected through a network,
The content browsing device
The content article to be browsed by the user, position information indicating the position of a plurality of articles in the content, and a headline corresponding to the content article are received from the server and stored in the content browsing apparatus. Storage means for storing in the means;
A headline display means for displaying a headline of an article of the content associated with the content;
A headline selection receiving means for receiving selection of the headline displayed by the headline display means;
When the selection of a plurality of headings among the headings is received by the headline selection receiving unit, the position information on the screen of the article of the content associated with the heading and the size of the article stored in the storage unit Using the information, the scaling change for changing the scaling ratio of the content in order to simultaneously display the content corresponding to the plurality of selected headings with a size suitable for the size of the display area of the content browsing device Means,
Display means for simultaneously displaying, in the display area of the content browsing device, the contents corresponding to the selected headings using the enlargement / reduction ratio of the size changed by the enlargement / reduction changing means;
With
The server
Transmission means for transmitting the content article, position information indicating the position of the plurality of articles in the content, and a headline corresponding to the content article to the content browsing device;
A content browsing system comprising: A content browsing apparatus for displaying an article of content for a user to browse, an article of the content for the user to browse, position information indicating a position of the article in the content, and a article of the content A method for controlling a content browsing system in which a server having a storage means for storing a heading corresponding to is connected through a network,
The registration means of the content browsing device includes an article of the content to be browsed by the user, position information indicating a position of the article in the content, and a headline corresponding to the article of the content. A registration step of receiving from and registering in the storage means of the content browsing device;
A headline display step in which the headline display means of the content browsing device displays a headline of an article of the content associated with the content;
A headline selection receiving step of receiving a selection of the headline displayed by the headline display step, wherein the headline selection receiving means of the content browsing device;
When the enlargement / reduction unit of the content browsing apparatus receives a selection of a plurality of headings from the headings by the headline selection receiving unit, the content article screen associated with the heading is stored in the storage unit By using the position information and the information on the size of the article, the content corresponding to the plurality of selected headings is displayed at the same time in a size appropriate for the size of the display area of the content browsing device. A scaling change step for changing the scaling ratio of the size of
A display step in which the display means of the content browsing apparatus simultaneously displays the contents corresponding to the selected plurality of headings in the display area of the content browsing apparatus using the enlargement / reduction ratio of the size changed by the enlargement / reduction changing means. When,
The transmission means of the server provides the content browsing device with an article of the content for the user to browse, position information indicating the position of the article in the content in existence, and a headline corresponding to the article of the content. A sending step to send;
The content browsing system control method characterized by including.

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