JP6055805B2 - Information processing apparatus and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for displaying a plurality of articles on a display means.

  In recent years, various articles have been acquired from various sites on the Internet, and a plurality of articles corresponding to the trend of the world and the interest of the viewer can be collected and viewed on a single screen.

  Examples of articles include various contents such as image contents, music contents, and advertisement contents.

  Since this type of article is often configured to include an image or the like, it is possible to display the article including the image in a predetermined article arrangement area on the screen. Thereby, the browsing person can grasp | ascertain the content of an article based on the image displayed on the article arrangement | positioning area | region.

  In addition, it is better to change the layout of the article so that it is easy for the viewer to see the article and to make the article enjoyable.

  Depending on the size of the image included in the article, the aspect ratio of the image, and the importance of each individual article, the size of the article placement area where the article is placed and the aspect ratio of the article placement area should be changed. Now you can change the layout of the article. This makes it easy for the viewer to see the article and makes the article enjoyable. It is also possible to make it easier for the viewer to grasp the article to be viewed. However, since the size and aspect ratio of images included in articles are very varied, it is not possible to arrange articles in the article placement area according to the size of the images included in the articles or the aspect ratio of the images. It is very difficult. Also, it would be meaningless if it took too much time to place an article in the article placement area.

  For this reason, it is necessary to efficiently arrange articles in the article arrangement area while changing the article layout.

  Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-141073) discloses a technique for changing a display area size for displaying content when a user touches a screen (see FIGS. 12, 13 and the like). ).

JP 2003-141073 A

  However, Patent Document 1 is based on the premise that the display area size is changed by a manual operation, and no consideration is given to efficiently placing articles in the article placement area while changing the article layout. Absent.

  An object of the present invention is to efficiently arrange articles in the article arrangement area while changing the layout of the articles.

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes:
Article placement means for placing the article stored in the article storage means for storing an article including an image in the article placement area of one of the template screens having a plurality of article placement areas;
Display control means for displaying on the display means the template screen in which the article is arranged in the article arrangement area,
The article placement means includes:
When the articles are allocated and arranged in the article arrangement area in order from the article with the highest priority displayed on the display means, the longitudinal direction of the image included in the article matches the longitudinal direction of the article arrangement area If the article cannot be arranged in the article arrangement area, the article arrangement area is divided by a dividing line in the short direction, and the article is allocated and arranged in one divided article arrangement area. It is characterized by that.

  According to the present invention, articles can be efficiently arranged in the article arrangement area while changing the article layout.

It is a figure which shows the structural example of the information processing apparatus 100 of this embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of an information source table. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the template screen 50, and is a figure which shows the state before dividing | segmenting an article arrangement | positioning area | region. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the template screen 50, and is a figure which shows an example of the state after dividing | segmenting an article arrangement | positioning area | region. It is a figure which shows the processing operation example of the information processing apparatus 100 of this embodiment. It is a figure showing an example of processing operation of information processor 100 of a 1st embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the article with a priority. It is a 1st figure which shows the specific example of the article arrangement | positioning of 1st Embodiment. It is a 2nd figure which shows the specific example of the article arrangement | positioning of 1st Embodiment. It is a 3rd figure which shows the specific example of the article arrangement | positioning of 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the article with a priority. It is a figure which shows the specific example of article arrangement | positioning. It is a figure which shows the processing operation example of the information processing apparatus 100 of 2nd Embodiment. It is a 1st figure which shows the specific example of the article arrangement | positioning of 2nd Embodiment. It is a 2nd figure which shows the specific example of the article arrangement | positioning of 2nd Embodiment. It is a 3rd figure which shows the specific example of the article arrangement | positioning of 2nd Embodiment.

<Outline of Information Processing Apparatus 100 According to One Aspect of the Present Invention>
First, an information processing apparatus 100 according to an aspect of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 shows a configuration example of an information processing apparatus 100 according to one embodiment of the present invention.

  An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an article arrangement unit and a display control unit.

  The article arrangement unit arranges the article stored in the article storage unit that stores an article including an image in one article arrangement area of a template screen having a plurality of article arrangement areas. The article storage means functions as the priority-ordered article storage unit 33. The operation display unit 20 functions as the display means. The article arrangement unit 45 functions as the article arrangement unit.

  The display control means displays a template screen in which articles are arranged in the article arrangement area on the display means. The display control unit 46 functions as the display control means.

  The article placement means matches the longitudinal direction of the image included in the article with the longitudinal direction of the article placement area when allocating and placing articles in the article placement area in order from the article with the highest priority displayed on the display means. If the article cannot be arranged in the article arrangement area without dividing the article, the article arrangement area is divided by a dividing line in the short direction, and the article is allocated and arranged in one divided article arrangement area.

  The information processing apparatus 100 according to one aspect of the present invention, when assigning and arranging articles in the article arrangement area in order from the article with the highest priority displayed on the display unit, the longitudinal direction of the image included in the article, and the article arrangement If the long direction of the area does not match and the article cannot be placed in the article placement area, the article placement area is divided by the dividing line in the short direction, and the article is placed in one divided article placement area. Will be allocated and placed. For this reason, it is possible to efficiently arrange articles in the article arrangement area while changing the article layout. Hereinafter, an information processing apparatus 100 according to an aspect of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

(First embodiment)
<Configuration example of information processing apparatus 100>
First, a configuration example of the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of an information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment. Examples of the information processing apparatus 100 include various devices such as a PC and a smartphone.

  The information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment includes a communication unit 10, an operation display unit 20, a storage unit 30, and a control unit 40.

  The communication unit 10 is connected to various Web servers 200 or the like via a network such as the Internet by wire or wireless. Also, a TV receiving antenna and a TV tuner are provided, and a TV program guide and TV program broadcast are received.

  The operation display unit 20 is a touch panel display, for example, and displays various articles on the screen and accepts operation inputs from the user. Examples of articles displayed on the operation display unit 20 include various contents such as image contents, music contents, and advertisement contents.

  The storage unit 30 stores various information. The storage unit 30 of the present embodiment includes an article storage unit 31, a template screen storage unit 32, an article storage unit with priority order 33, and an article arrangement state storage unit 34.

  The article accumulation unit 31 acquires various articles stored in various web servers 200 on the network, and classifies and accumulates them for each predetermined category. The article storage unit 31 stores, for example, articles acquired from various web servers 200 on the Internet based on an information source table as shown in FIG. In the information source table shown in FIG. 2, categories such as “politics”, “economy”, and “sports” are associated with each URI. The articles are each one of the articles included in the RSS or Atom feed acquired based on this URI. Thereby, articles of various categories are accumulated in the article accumulation unit 31.

  The template screen storage unit 32 stores a template screen 50 that is used when an article is displayed on the operation display unit 20. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the template screen 50 includes a plurality of article placement areas A1 to A4, B1 to B2, and C1 for placing articles, and each article placement area A1 to A4, B1 to B2, and C1. A desired article is arranged and displayed on the operation display unit 20. The template screen 50 may be configured so that all the article placement areas are displayed on the operation display unit 20 at a time. Further, a part of the article arrangement area of the template screen 50 may be displayed on the operation display unit 20 and the remaining article arrangement area may be displayed on the operation display unit 20 by a scroll operation or the like.

  The template screen 50 is composed of a plurality of types of article arrangement areas having different aspect ratios. In this case, it is preferable to determine the aspect ratio of the article arrangement area constituting the template screen 50 based on the aspect ratio of the article image included in the article that can be distributed from the Web server 200 or the like. Any number of aspect ratios may be used for the article placement area, but if the number is too small, an important area of the article image may be removed when the article image is trimmed. On the other hand, if there are too many types, variations in the article placement area constituting the template screen 50 increase, and the design of the template screen 50 becomes difficult.

  In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, there are three types of article arrangement areas that constitute the template screen 50: vertical size A1 to A4, square size B1 to B2, and horizontal size C1. The template screen 50 is configured by combining the above. The aspect ratios of the vertically long sizes A1 to A4 are configured by width 1: height 2. The aspect ratios of the square sizes B1 to B2 are configured with a width of 1 and a height of 1. The aspect ratio of the landscape size C1 is configured by width 2: height 1. The configuration example of the template screen 50 is not limited to the configuration example of FIG. 3, and can be configured by combining any kind of article arrangement area. The vertically and horizontally sized article arrangement areas A1 to A4 and C1 include a buffer area between articles, and the vertically and horizontally sized article arrangement areas A1 to A4 and C1 are divided in half by a dividing line in the short direction. The square-sized article placement areas B1 and B2 have the same size as the square-size article placement areas B1 and B2.

  The template screen 50 shown in FIG. 3 includes four vertically long article placement areas A1 to A4, two square size article placement areas B1 to B2, and one horizontally long article placement area C1. When all the vertically and horizontally sized article placement areas A1 to A4 and C1 constituting the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 3 are divided in half by the dividing line in the short direction, the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 4 is obtained. A template screen 50 shown in FIG. 4 divides the vertically-sized article arrangement area A1 shown in FIG. 3 into two square-sized article arrangement areas A11 and A12 by dividing lines in the short direction. Further, the vertically long article arrangement area A2 shown in FIG. 3 is divided into two square size article arrangement areas A21 and A22 by a dividing line in the short direction. Further, the vertically long article arrangement area A3 shown in FIG. 3 is divided into two square size article arrangement areas A31 and A32 by a dividing line in the short direction. Further, the vertically long article arrangement area A4 shown in FIG. 3 is divided into two square size article arrangement areas A41 and A42 by a dividing line in the short direction. Also, the horizontally long article arrangement area C1 shown in FIG. 3 is divided into two square size article arrangement areas C11 and C12 by a dividing line in the short direction.

  The priority-added article storage unit 33 stores articles to which priority is given when displayed on the operation display unit 20. The prioritized article storage unit 33 stores, for example, articles assigned a priority for each category. The category uses the category used when accumulating articles in the article accumulation unit 31, and stores the articles for each category accumulated in the article accumulation unit 31 with priority. Further, the article with priority ranking is stored in the article storage unit 33 with priority ranking for each priority period. As the predetermined time zone, for example, various time zones such as morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night are used, and priority is given to the articles for each time zone in which the articles are distributed from the Web server 200 or the like. .

  The article arrangement situation storage unit 34 stores the situation in which articles are arranged in a plurality of article arrangement areas constituting the template screen 50. For example, the article placement area in which the articles have been placed stores information indicating that the articles have been placed and information on articles to be placed in the article placement areas. In addition, information indicating that the article is not arranged is stored in the article arrangement area where the article has not been arranged. Thereby, it is possible to grasp which article arrangement area has been arranged among the plurality of article arrangement areas constituting the template screen 50 and which article arrangement area has not been arranged. In addition, it is possible to grasp which article is to be arranged for each article arrangement area constituting the template screen 50.

  The control unit 40 controls the information processing apparatus 100. The control unit 40 of this embodiment includes an article acquisition unit 41, a personal attention level analysis unit 42, a social attention level analysis unit 43, an article priority order determination unit 44, an article placement unit 45, and a display control unit 46. Yes.

  The article acquisition unit 41 is connected to various Web servers 200 via the network by the communication unit 10 and acquires various articles. Various articles acquired by the article acquisition unit 41 are classified and stored in the article storage unit 31 for each category.

  The personal attention level analysis unit 42 obtains a personal attention level that is an estimated value of interest of the user for each article. In the article accumulation unit 31, various articles are classified and accumulated for each predetermined category. The personal attention level analysis unit 42 obtains the personal attention level of various articles stored in the article storage unit 31. Thereby, it is possible to grasp which article has a high personal attention level and which article has a low personal attention level. The personal attention level is a value serving as an index for specifying the degree of preference of the user's personal article, and is obtained from the user's personal evaluation index. The degree of personal attention can be score, deviation value, ranking, or a combination of these. An article with a high degree of personal attention means that the individual user is interested in the article, and an article with a low degree of personal attention means that the individual user is not interested in the article. The article accumulation unit 31 classifies and accumulates various articles for each category. For this reason, the category of articles with a high degree of personal attention has a high degree of attention, and the category of articles with a low degree of personal attention has a low degree of attention. Thereby, the attention degree with respect to a category can also be calculated | required.

  The personal attention level is determined using, for example, a user operation on an article displayed on the operation display unit 20 and a keyword included in the article. Examples of user operations include opening an article, not opening an article, making a good comment on an article, making a bad comment on an article, saving an article, and discarding an article. It is done. Among the user operations, operations such as opening an article, making a good comment on an article, and saving an article correspond to operations showing a positive correlation with the degree of personal attention. In addition, operations such as not opening an article, making a bad comment on an article, or discarding an article correspond to operations showing a negative correlation with the personal attention level. As a result, an article including the same keyword as the keyword included in an article for which an operation showing a positive correlation with the personal attention level has a high personal attention level. An article including the same keyword as the keyword included in an article for which an operation showing a negative correlation with the personal attention level has a low personal attention level. Note that the personal attention level of an article is obtained by a user operation, and thus the learning speed is low.

  The social attention level analysis unit 43 obtains a social attention level that is an estimated value of interest of other users for each article. In the article accumulation unit 31, various articles are classified and accumulated for each predetermined category. The social attention level analysis unit 43 obtains the social attention level of various articles stored in the article storage unit 31. As a result, it is possible to grasp which article has high social attention and which article has low social attention. The social attention level is a value serving as an index for specifying the degree of relative preference for articles of a plurality of users, and is obtained from an evaluation index of a plurality of users. The social attention level may be score, deviation value, ranking, or a combination of the scores for articles. An article with a high degree of social attention means that a plurality of users are relatively interested in the article. An article with low social attention means that a plurality of users are relatively uninterested in the article. The social attention level is determined based on, for example, the number of tweets for an article. Also, it is determined based on the number of users who liked the article. Alternatively, it may be determined by an article browsing operation by another user such as an article page view or PageRank. Since the social attention level of an article is obtained in real time by a plurality of users, the learning speed is fast. The social attention level for each article can also be acquired collectively from the Web server 200 or the like.

  The article priority order determination unit 44 displays various articles stored in the article storage unit 31 on the operation display unit 20 based on the personal attention level and the social attention level with respect to various articles stored in the article storage unit 31. Determine the priority when doing so. For example, a total attention level for an article is obtained based on a personal attention level and a social attention level for various articles, and a priority order of each article is determined based on the total attention level. The total attention level for an article may be a value obtained by simply adding a personal attention level and a social attention level for each article, and an arbitrary weighting may be applied to the personal attention level and the social attention level. A value obtained by applying and adding may be used. In this case, it is possible to arbitrarily change the weighting applied to the personal attention level and the weighting applied to the social attention level. For example, in the initial stage, since the learning speed of personal attention is slow, the weight of personal attention is set to be larger than the social attention, and as the learning of personal attention is accumulated, It is also possible to decrease the weight of the target attention level and finally set the same weight as the social attention level. The priority order of each article is determined for each category or for each time zone based on the overall degree of attention to the article. Thereby, when displaying the articles on the operation display unit 20 for each category, the articles can be displayed on the operation display unit 20 based on the priority order of the articles determined for each category. Further, when an article is displayed on the operation display unit 20 for each time zone, the article can be displayed on the operation display unit 20 based on the priority order of the articles determined for each time zone. The prioritized articles determined by the article priority order determination unit 44 are stored in the priority order article storage unit 33. Thereby, the article with priority assigned to each category is stored in the article storage unit 33 with priority order. Also, articles with priorities given for each time zone are stored.

  The article placement unit 45 reads the template screen 50 from the template screen storage unit 32 at random, and assigns and arranges the articles in each article placement region that constitutes the read template screen 50. The article placement unit 45 assigns articles to each article placement region constituting the template screen 50 in order from the article with the highest priority stored in the article storage unit 33 with priority order. Then, the article placement unit 45 matches the longitudinal direction of the article image included in the article assigned to each article placement area with the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be placed in the article placement area. If it can be placed in the article, the article is placed in the article placement area. Also, if the article images cannot be placed in the article placement area because the longitudinal directions of both article images do not match, the article placement area is divided by a dividing line in the short direction, and one article placement after the division is performed. Allocate and place articles in the area. For example, an article image that can be arranged in the vertically long article arrangement area A1 shown in FIG. 3 is a vertically long article image. In this case, when the article image included in the article is a vertically long article image, the longitudinal direction of the article image included in the article matches the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be arranged in the article arrangement area, The article can be arranged in the article arrangement area, and the article is arranged in the vertically long article arrangement area A1. Also, if the article image included in the article is not a vertically long article image, the longitudinal direction of the article image included in the article does not match the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be placed in the article placement area, and the article Cannot be arranged in the article arrangement area, and the vertically arranged article arrangement area A1 is divided into two square-sized article arrangement areas A11 and A12 by a dividing line in the short direction, and one of the divided article arrangement areas A1 and A12 is divided. Articles are allocated and arranged in a square-sized article arrangement area A11 having a high priority.

  When the article image included in the article is arranged in the article arrangement area, the article arrangement unit 45 mechanically trims the article image so as to have an aspect ratio corresponding to the article arrangement area, and the article image after trimming is the article. Place in the placement area.

  For example, it is assumed that the article image included in the article is a vertically long article image of 3 × 2 in length. In this case, when an article image having a vertical size of 3 × 2 is placed in a square 1 × 1 square article arrangement area, the top and bottom of the article image are arranged so that the vertical 3 size becomes the vertical 2 size. Trimming to remove the area. Then, the article image having a size of 2 × 2 is reduced and arranged in an article arrangement area having a square size of 1 × 1 in width. In this case, since an important area such as a face generally appears in the upper part of an article image, trimming is performed so as to remove more areas below the upper part of the article image. When trimming a vertically long article image of 3 × 2 horizontally to a square size, a 1 × 2 area is removed from the article image.

  When an article image having a portrait size of 3 × 2 is placed in an article placement area of 2 × 1 portrait, the size of the article image is set so that the size of 2 is 1.5. Trimming to remove the left and right areas. Then, the article image having a size of 3 × 1.5 is reduced and arranged in a vertically long article arrangement area of 2 × 1. When trimming an article image having a portrait size of 3 × 2 vertically to a portrait size, an area of 3 × 0.5 is removed from the article image.

  In the case of the above example, when trimming a 3 × vertical 2 portrait image to a square size, the area of 1 × 2 is removed from the article image, and when trimming to a portrait size, The area of 3 × 0.5 is removed from the article image. For this reason, the area of the article image removed by the trimming is smaller in the trimming to the vertically long size than the trimming to the square size. As the area of the article image removed by trimming is smaller, the article image can be arranged and displayed in the article arrangement area in a natural state. For this reason, trimming to portrait size will display the article image in the article placement area in a natural state, and trimming to square size will cause the article image to appear in an unnatural state. Will be displayed. For this reason, articles including vertically sized article images are placed in vertically sized article placement areas and square sized article placement areas.

  When trimming an article image, it is preferable to set conditions so as not to remove an important area of the article image.

  In the case of the above example, trimming a vertically sized article image to place a vertically sized article image in a horizontally sized article placement area may remove an important area of the article image depending on the trimming method. There is. In addition, when a horizontally long article image is trimmed to arrange a horizontally long article image in a vertically long article arrangement area, an important area of the article image may be removed depending on the trimming method. For this reason, conditions are set so that a vertically long article image is not placed in a horizontally long article placement region. Also, a condition is set so that a horizontally long article image is not placed in a vertically long article placement area. As a result, a vertically long article image can be placed in a vertically long or square size article placement region. Also, a horizontally long article image can be placed in a horizontally long or square article placement area.

  In the present embodiment, the square-sized article image can be arranged only in the square-sized article arrangement area. This is because if an article image having a square size is arranged in an article arrangement area having a portrait or landscape size, the article arrangement area is wasted. This is also because square article images can easily be arranged in the divided article arrangement areas by dividing the article arrangement areas described later.

  The article arrangement unit 45 arranges articles in the article arrangement area satisfying the conditions in order from the article with the highest priority until the article is arranged in all the article arrangement areas constituting the template screen 50, and configures the template screen 50. Articles are placed in all article placement areas.

  The article placement unit 45 stores in the article placement state storage unit 34 the situation in which articles are placed in the respective article placement areas constituting the template screen 50. In this case, every time an article is arranged in each article arrangement area constituting the template screen 50, the article arrangement unit 45 stores the article arrangement state in the article arrangement state storage unit 34 and updates the article arrangement state. To do.

  The display control unit 46 arranges a corresponding article for each article arrangement area constituting the template screen 50 based on the article arrangement state stored in the article arrangement state storage unit 34 and displays it on the operation display unit 20. To do. For example, the display control unit 46 generates a thumbnail image using an article image or a heading character included in the article, arranges the generated thumbnail image in the corresponding article arrangement area, and displays the thumbnail image on the operation display unit 20.

<Example of Processing Operation of Information Processing Device 100>
Next, an example of processing operation of the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a processing operation example when an article is displayed on the operation display unit 20. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of detailed processing operation in step S4 of FIG.

  First, the article acquisition unit 41 connects to various Web servers 200 via the network by the communication unit 10 and acquires various articles. And it classify | categorizes and accumulate | stores for every category in the article | item accumulation | storage part 31 (step S1).

  Next, the personal attention level analysis part 42 calculates | requires the personal attention level which is a user's interest estimated value with respect to each article. Moreover, the social attention level analysis part 43 calculates | requires the social attention level which is another user's interest estimated value with respect to each article (step S2).

  Next, the article priority order determination unit 44 determines the priority order of articles to be displayed on the operation display unit 20 based on the personal attention level and social attention level for each article (step S3). In this case, for example, the priority order of articles for each category is determined. Also, the priority order of articles for each time zone is determined. The article priority order determination unit 44 stores the articles assigned the priority order in the article storage unit 33 with priority order.

  Next, the article placement unit 45 reads the template screen 50 from the template screen storage unit 32 at random. Then, based on the information stored in the prioritized article storage unit 33, articles are allocated and arranged in each article arrangement area constituting the template screen 50 in order from the article with the highest priority (step S4). An example of the detailed processing operation of step S4 is shown in FIG.

  The article placement unit 45 refers to the prioritized article storage unit 33, and assigns articles to each article placement area constituting the template screen 50 in order from the article with the highest priority among the articles with priority. S31). For example, the article placement areas A1 to A4, B1 to B2, and C1 constituting the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 3 have a predetermined priority order for placing articles. For example, in order from the left end of the template screen 50 , A1-> B1-> B2-> A2-> A3-> C1-> A4 and the priorities are determined. For this reason, the article placement unit 45 refers to the prioritized article storage unit 33 and assigns articles in the order of A1 → B1 → B2 → A2 → A3 → C1 → A4 in order from the highest priority article. . The article assignment in step S31 is not in a state in which the article arrangement is fixed.

  Next, the article placement unit 45 compares the longitudinal direction of the article image included in the article assigned to the article placement area with the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be placed in the article placement area, and the article contained in the article. It is determined whether or not the longitudinal direction of the image matches the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be placed in the article placement area (step S32). For example, an article image that can be arranged in the vertically long article arrangement area A1 shown in FIG. 3 is a vertically long article image. In this case, when the article image included in the article is a vertically long article image, the longitudinal direction of the article image included in the article matches the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be arranged in the article arrangement area. become. In addition, when the article image included in the article is not a vertically long article image, the longitudinal direction of the article image included in the article does not match the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be arranged in the article arrangement area. . This comparison is performed in the order of high priority A1, B1, B2, A2, A3, C1, and A4. If the longitudinal direction of both article images matches and the article can be arranged in the article arrangement area (step S33 / Yes), the article arrangement unit 45 arranges the article in the article arrangement area (step S34). . Thereby, the arrangement of the articles is confirmed.

  If the article images are not aligned in the longitudinal direction and the article cannot be arranged in the article arrangement area (No in step S33), the article arrangement area is divided by a dividing line in the short direction and divided. Articles are allocated and arranged in the latter one of the higher priority article arrangement areas (step S35). For example, it is assumed that an article image that can be arranged in the vertically long article arrangement area A1 shown in FIG. 3 is a vertically long article image, and an article image included in the article is a square article image. In this case, since the longitudinal direction of both article images does not match, the vertically arranged article arranging area A1 is divided into two square sized article arranging areas A11 and A12 by a dividing line in the short direction, and one of the divided article images is divided. Articles are allocated and arranged in a square-sized article arrangement area A11 having a high priority. As a result, the article arrangement area is divided by the dividing line in the short direction, and articles are allocated and arranged in the divided article arrangement area, so the article arrangement is fixed. However, there are unallocated article arrangement areas.

  The article placement unit 45 repeats the processes of steps S32 to S35 until the comparison of article images is completed in all article placement areas (step S36 / No). Then, when the comparison of the article images is completed in all the article arrangement areas (Step S36 / Yes), it is determined whether there is an unarranged article arrangement area (Step S37). If there is no unplaced article placement area (step S37 / No), articles are placed in all article placement areas constituting the template screen 50, and the article placement processing is terminated (End).

  If there is an unarranged article arrangement area (step S37 / Yes), articles that can be arranged are allocated and arranged in the unarranged article arrangement area (step S38). In this case, articles are allocated and arranged in an unarranged article arrangement area where the longitudinal directions of both article images match in order from an unarranged article with a high priority. As a result, articles are arranged in all article arrangement areas constituting the template screen 50, and the article arrangement processing is ended (End). Each time an article is arranged in each article arrangement area constituting the template screen 50, the article arrangement unit 45 stores the article arrangement state in the article arrangement state storage unit 34 and updates the article arrangement state.

  The display control unit 46 arranges an article in each article arrangement area constituting the template screen 50 based on the article arrangement state stored in the article arrangement state storage unit 34, and displays the article on the operation display unit 20 (step S5). ). Thereby, the display control unit 46 can display the template screen 50 in which articles are arranged in the article arrangement area on the operation display unit 20.

<Specific examples of article placement>
Next, a specific example of article arrangement will be described. In the present embodiment, a case where the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 3 is used will be described. Further, it is assumed that the article with priority order shown in FIG. 7 is stored in the article storage section 33 with priority order. FIG. 7 also shows the aspect ratio of the article image included in the article. The aspect ratio of the article image may be specified by analyzing the article image included in the article, or may be specified based on the size of the article image included in the HTML tag when the article is acquired from the Web server 200 or the like. good. In the present embodiment, only the vertically long article images can be arranged in the vertically long article arrangement areas A1 to A4 constituting the template screen 50 shown in FIG. In addition, article images of all sizes of a square size, a vertically long size, and a horizontally long size can be placed in the square size article placement areas B1 and B2. Further, it is assumed that only a horizontally long article image can be arranged in the horizontally long article arrangement region C1.

  First, the article placement unit 45 refers to the prioritized article storage unit 33, and configures the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 3 in order from the article with the highest priority from the articles with the priority shown in FIG. An article is assigned to each article placement area (step S31). In this case, article 1 is assigned to article placement area A1, article 2 is assigned to article placement area B1, and article 3 is assigned to article placement area B2. Article 4 is assigned to the article placement area A2, article 5 is assigned to the article placement area A3, article 6 is assigned to the article placement area C1, and article 7 is assigned to the article placement area A4. Thereby, the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 3 is in the state shown in FIG. The articles 1 to 7 assigned to the article arrangement areas constituting the template screen 50 are not in a state where the arrangement of the articles 1 to 7 is fixed.

  Next, the article placement unit 45 compares the longitudinal direction of the article image included in the article assigned to the article placement area with the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be placed in the article placement area, and the article contained in the article. It is determined whether or not the longitudinal direction of the image matches the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be placed in the article placement area (step S32).

  The article image included in the article 1 is a square-sized article image, and the article image that can be arranged in the article arrangement area A1 is a vertically-long article image. Therefore, the longitudinal directions of both article images do not match, Article 1 cannot be placed in article placement area A1. For this reason, the vertically arranged article placement area A1 is divided into two square-sized article placement areas A11 and A12 by a dividing line in the short direction, and article 1 is placed in one square-sized article placement area A11 having a higher priority. Assign and place. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 1 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thereby, the article arrangement area A1 is divided by the dividing line in the short direction to generate article arrangement areas A11 and A12, the article arrangement area A11 has already been arranged, and the article 1 is arranged in the article arrangement area A11. The information is memorized. Further, information indicating that the article placement area A12 is not placed is stored.

  The article image included in the article 2 is a vertically long article image, and the article images that can be arranged in the article arrangement region B1 are article images of all sizes. Then, the article 2 can be arranged in the article arrangement area B1. For this reason, the article 2 is arranged in the article arrangement area B1 having a square size. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 2 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thereby, the information indicating that the article arrangement area B1 has been arranged and the article 2 is arranged in the article arrangement area B1 is stored.

  Further, the article image included in the article 3 is a square-sized article image, and the article images that can be arranged in the article arrangement area B2 are article images of all sizes. Then, the article 3 can be arranged in the article arrangement area B2. For this reason, the article 3 is arranged in the square-sized article arrangement area B2. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 3 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thereby, the information indicating that the article placement area B2 has been placed and the article 3 is placed in the article placement area B2 is stored.

  The article image included in the article 4 is a horizontally long article image, and the article image that can be arranged in the article arrangement area A2 is a vertically long article image. Therefore, the longitudinal directions of both article images match. Therefore, the article 4 cannot be arranged in the article arrangement area A2. Therefore, the vertically long article placement area A2 is divided into two square size article placement areas A21 and A22 by a dividing line in the short direction, and the article 4 is placed in one square size article placement area A21 having a higher priority. Assign and place. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 4 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thereby, the article arrangement area A2 is divided by the dividing line in the short direction to generate article arrangement areas A21 and A22, the article arrangement area A21 has already been arranged, and the article 4 is arranged in the article arrangement area A21. The information is memorized. Further, information indicating that the article placement area A22 is not placed is stored.

  Further, the article image included in the article 5 is a horizontally long article image, and the article image that can be arranged in the article arrangement area A3 is a vertically long article image. Therefore, the article 5 cannot be arranged in the article arrangement area A3. For this reason, the vertically long article placement area A3 is divided into two square size article placement areas A31 and A32 by a dividing line in the short direction, and the article 5 is placed in one square size article placement area A31 having a higher priority. Assign and place. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 5 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Accordingly, the article placement area A3 is divided by the dividing line in the short direction to generate article placement areas A31 and A32, the article placement area A31 has been placed, and the article 5 is placed in the article placement area A31. The information is memorized. Further, information indicating that the article placement area A32 is not placed is stored.

  The article image included in the article 6 is a vertically long article image, and the article image that can be arranged in the article arrangement area C1 is a horizontally long article image. Therefore, the article 6 cannot be arranged in the article arrangement area C1. Therefore, the horizontally-long article arrangement area C1 is divided into two square-size article arrangement areas C11 and C12 by a dividing line in the short direction, and the article 6 is added to one of the square-sized article arrangement areas C11 having a higher priority. Assign and place. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 6 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thereby, the article arrangement area C1 is divided by the dividing line in the short direction to generate article arrangement areas C11 and C12, the article arrangement area C11 has already been arranged, and the article 6 is arranged in the article arrangement area C11. The information is memorized. Further, information indicating that the article placement area C12 is not placed is stored.

  In addition, the article image included in the article 7 is a square-sized article image, and the article image that can be arranged in the article arrangement area A4 is a vertically long article image. Therefore, the article 7 cannot be arranged in the article arrangement area A4. For this reason, the vertically long article placement area A4 is divided into two square size article placement areas A41 and A42 by a dividing line in the short direction, and the article 7 is placed in one square size article placement area A41 having a higher priority. Assign and place. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 7 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. As a result, the article arrangement area A4 is divided by the dividing line in the short direction to generate article arrangement areas A41 and A42, the article arrangement area A41 has already been arranged, and the article 7 is arranged in the article arrangement area A41. The information is memorized. Further, information indicating that the article placement area A42 is not placed is stored. The article arrangement status stored in the article arrangement status storage unit 34 in this state is shown in FIG.

  Since the article arrangement unit 45 has completed the comparison of article images in all article arrangement areas of the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 3 (step S36 / Yes), the article arrangement state storage unit 34 is referred to and the article arrangement area is not arranged. It is determined whether or not there is (step S37). In this case, as shown in FIG. 9, since there are unarranged article arrangement areas A12, A22, A32, C12, A42 (step S37 / Yes), articles that can be arranged are allocated to the unarranged article arrangement areas. Arrange (step S38). In this case, articles are allocated and arranged in order from the non-arranged article with the highest priority stored in the article storage unit 33 with priority. For example, an article 8 in which the longitudinal directions of both article images match is assigned and arranged in the article arrangement area A12. Further, the article 9 in which the longitudinal directions of both article images match is allocated and arranged in the article arrangement area A22. Further, the article 10 in which the longitudinal directions of both article images match is allocated and arranged in the article arrangement area A32. Further, the article 11 in which the longitudinal directions of both article images match is allocated and arranged in the article arrangement area C12. Further, the article 12 in which the longitudinal directions of both article images match is allocated and arranged in the article arrangement area A42. As a result, articles are arranged in all article arrangement areas constituting the template screen 50, and the article arrangement processing is ended (End). The article arrangement state stored in the article arrangement state storage unit 34 in this state is shown in FIG.

  The display control unit 46 arranges an article corresponding to each article arrangement area constituting the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 10 based on the article arrangement state stored in the article arrangement state storage unit 34 and operates the operation display unit 20. To display. Thereby, the display control unit 46 can display the template screen 50 in which articles are arranged in the individual article arrangement areas shown in FIG. 10 on the operation display unit 20.

  In the above processing operation, when the article with priority shown in FIG. 11 is displayed on the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 3, the article placement unit 45 configures the template screen 50 shown in FIG. Become. In this case, the display control unit 46 arranges and operates an article corresponding to each article arrangement area constituting the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 12 based on the article arrangement situation stored in the article arrangement situation storage unit 34. It is displayed on the display unit 20.

<Operation / Effect of Information Processing Apparatus 100 of Present Embodiment>
The information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment assigns articles to the article placement area configuring the template screen 50 in order from the article with the highest priority. Then, the longitudinal direction of the article image included in the article allocated to the article placement area is compared with the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be placed in the article placement area, and the longitudinal direction of the article image included in the article is compared with the longitudinal direction of the article image. When the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be arranged in the article arrangement area matches and the article can be arranged in the article arrangement area, the article is arranged in the article arrangement area. Also, if the article images cannot be placed in the article placement area because the longitudinal directions of both article images do not match, the article placement area is divided by a dividing line in the short direction, and the article is assigned to the divided article placement area. Arrange. The information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment does not match the longitudinal direction of the article image included in the article assigned to the article arrangement area and the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be arranged in the article arrangement area, and If the article cannot be arranged in the arrangement area, the article arrangement area is divided by a dividing line in the short direction, and articles are allocated and arranged in the divided article arrangement area. For this reason, it is possible to efficiently arrange articles in the article arrangement area while changing the article layout.

  In addition, the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment obtains a personal attention level that is a user's interest estimation value for each article and a social attention level that is another user's interest estimation value for each article, and Based on the personal attention level and the social attention level, the priority of articles to be displayed on the operation display unit 20 is determined. Then, articles are assigned to article placement areas in order from the article with the highest priority. For this reason, articles optimal for individual users can be arranged in the article arrangement area and displayed on the operation display unit 20.

  As a method for displaying an article, for example, there is the following method.

Method 1: All articles are arranged and displayed in the article arrangement area of the same size.
Method 2: A plurality of article arrangement areas are arranged in a single vertical row or horizontal line, and the width and vertical size of the article arrangement area are determined in accordance with the aspect ratio of the article image. Then, articles are arranged and displayed in the determined article arrangement area.
Method 3: A template screen composed of a plurality of article placement areas is prepared in advance. In addition, a range of aspect ratios of article images that can be arranged in individual article arrangement areas constituting the template screen is defined in advance. Then, the article image is trimmed by recognizing the important area of the article image included in the article that is the candidate for placement to be placed in the individual article placement areas that constitute the template screen, and the article of the placement candidate article that is constituted by the important area. Recognize the range of image aspect ratios. Then, the range of the aspect ratio of the article image of the article image that can be arranged in the article arrangement area is compared with the range of the aspect ratio of the article image that can be arranged in the article arrangement area. Articles with placement candidates that match are placed in the article placement area and displayed.
Method 4: Calculate the display size of the article from the aspect ratio and size of the article image included in each article, give a high score to articles with high priority, and solve the knapsack problem of assigning articles to a limited article placement area The article is arranged and displayed.

  In the methods 1 and 2, since all the article placement areas have the same size, the article layout cannot be changed. Further, the important area of the article image is removed by mechanical trimming of the article image, and it may be difficult to recognize what kind of image the article image means.

  In the methods 3 and 4, it takes time for the article arrangement process, and the display speed until the article is displayed is reduced. In order not to decrease the display speed of the article, it is necessary to complete the article placement process before distributing the article on the server side, etc. In this case, the article that matches the interest of each user It cannot be displayed.

  On the other hand, the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment obtains a personal attention level that is a user's interest estimation value for each article and a social attention level that is another user's interest estimation value for each article. Based on the personal attention level and the social attention level for the article, the priority order of the articles to be displayed on the operation display unit 20 is determined. Then, articles are allocated and arranged in the article arrangement area in order from the article with the highest priority. In that case, if the longitudinal direction of the article image included in the article assigned to the article placement area does not match the longitudinal direction of the article image that can be placed in the article placement area, the article cannot be placed in the article placement area. The article arrangement area is divided by a dividing line in the short direction, and articles are assigned and arranged in the divided article arrangement area. For this reason, it is possible to efficiently arrange the articles in the article arrangement area and display them on the operation display unit 20 while changing the article layout. In addition, an article optimal for each user can be arranged in the article arrangement area and displayed on the operation display unit 20.

(Second Embodiment)
Next, a second embodiment will be described.

  In the second embodiment, in order from the article with the highest priority, the unplaced article placement areas satisfying the placement conditions for placing the article images included in the articles from the article placement areas constituting the template screen 50 are determined. If there is no unplaced article placement area that satisfies the placement condition and the article cannot be assigned and placed in the article placement area, the article placement area that can be divided among the unplaced article placement areas is shortened. The document is divided by a manual dividing line, and articles are allocated and arranged in the divided article arrangement area. As a result, as in the first embodiment, articles can be efficiently arranged in the article arrangement area while changing the layout of the articles. The arrangement condition is determined based on the aspect ratio of the article image included in the article and the size of the article image. Hereinafter, the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 and 13.

<Configuration example of information processing apparatus 100>
First, a configuration example of the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

  The information processing apparatus 100 of the present embodiment is configured in the same manner as in the first embodiment, and only the processing of the article placement unit 45 is different from that in the first embodiment.

  The article placement unit 45 of the present embodiment reads the template screen 50 from the template screen storage unit 32 at random, and assigns and places articles in each article placement region that constitutes the read template screen 50. The article placement unit 45 assigns and arranges articles in the article placement area where the articles can be placed in order from the article with the highest priority stored in the article storage unit 33 with priority order. In this case, the article placement unit 45 determines the priority of the article placement area when placing the article, and assigns and places the article in the article placement area where the article can be placed based on the priority of the article placement area. To do. For example, the priority of the aspect ratio of the article image after trimming is obtained based on the size (area) of the area of the article image removed by trimming performed to arrange the article image included in the article in the article placement area. Then, based on the obtained priority order of the aspect ratio of the article image, the priority order of the article placement area when the article is placed is determined. Then, based on the priority of the article arrangement area, articles are allocated and arranged in article arrangement areas where articles can be arranged.

  For example, when an article image included in an article has a portrait size, the priority order of the article placement area of the article is the order of portrait size → square size. For this reason, the article placement unit 45 searches for an unplaced portrait-size article placement area from among the article placement areas constituting the template screen 50, and if there is an unplaced portrait-size article placement area, Articles are allocated and arranged in an unplaced vertically long article placement area. Also, if there is no unarranged vertically arranged article arrangement area, search for an unarranged square size article arrangement area, and if there is an unarranged square size article arrangement area, Allocate and arrange articles in the article placement area. Also, if there is no unplaced square-sized article placement area, a search is made for a non-placeable horizontally placed article placement area, and if there is a splittable article placement area, the article placement area is shortened. The article is divided by the direction dividing line, and the article is allocated and arranged in the article arrangement area of the square size after the division. If there is no article arrangement area that can be divided, the arrangement of the article is abandoned.

  Further, when the article image included in the article has a square size, the priority order of the article arrangement area of the article is the order of the square size. Therefore, the article placement unit 45 searches for an unplaced square size article placement area from among the article placement areas constituting the template screen 50, and if there is an unplaced square size article placement area, Allocate and arrange articles in unallocated square-sized article placement areas. Also, if there is no unplaced square size article placement area, search for an unplaced vertical or horizontal article placement area that can be split, and if there is a splittable article placement area, the article placement area Is divided by the dividing line in the short direction, and articles are allocated and arranged in the square-sized article arrangement area after division. If there is no article arrangement area that can be divided, the arrangement of the article is abandoned.

<Example of Processing Operation of Information Processing Device 100>
Next, an example of processing operation of the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of processing operation when an article is arranged on the template screen 50, and shows an example of detailed processing operation of step S4 shown in FIG.

  The article placement unit 45 inputs 1 to n (step S11). Then, the nth article having the highest display priority stored in the article storage unit 33 with priority is extracted (step S12), and the aspect ratio and image size of the article image included in the article are specified (step S13). Initially, the first article that is n = 1 stored in the prioritized article storage unit 33 is extracted, and the aspect ratio and image size of the article image included in the article are specified.

  The article placement unit 45 obtains the priority order of the aspect ratio of the article image after trimming based on the aspect ratio and image size of the article image, and determines the article placement area when searching for placing the article in the article placement area. A priority order is determined (step S14). In the case of this embodiment, when the article image has a portrait size, the priority order is from portrait size to square size. Further, when the article image is in the horizontally long size, the priority order is from the horizontally long size to the square size. Further, when the article image has a square size, the priority order is the square size.

  The article arrangement unit 45 searches for an article arrangement area where an article can be arranged based on the priority of the article arrangement area determined in step S14 and the article arrangement state stored in the article arrangement state storage unit 34. (Step S15). For example, if the article image included in an article is in landscape size and the priority of the article placement area is landscape size → square size, the article placement area with the highest priority among the unplaced landscape orientation article placement areas An article will be allocated and arranged. For example, the template screen 50 shown in FIG. When all the horizontally long article placement areas have been placed, articles are assigned and placed in the article placement area with the highest priority among the unplaced square size article placement areas. For example, in the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 3, articles are allocated and arranged in the order of the article arrangement area of B1 → B2. 3 are already divided as shown in FIG. 4, the article arrangement areas A11, A12, A21, A22, and A31 after the division shown in FIG. , A32, A41, A42, etc. are also subject to the article placement area.

  If there is an article placement area where the article can be placed (step S16 / Yes), the article is assigned and placed in the placeable article placement area (step S19). When an article is arranged in the article arrangement area, the article arrangement unit 45 stores the article arrangement state in the article arrangement state storage unit 34 and updates the article arrangement state. For example, the article arrangement area in which the article is arranged is updated to information indicating that the article has been arranged, and information on the article to be arranged in the article arrangement area is stored.

  If there is no article placement area in which the article can be placed (step S16 / No), it is searched whether there is an article placement area that can be divided (step S17).

  If there is an article arrangement area that can be divided (step S17 / Yes), the article arrangement area that can be divided is divided by a dividing line in the short direction (step S18), and an article is assigned to one article arrangement area after the division. (Step S19). For example, the non-arranged vertically arranged article arrangement area A1 shown in FIG. 3 is divided by a dividing line in the short direction to generate two square size article arrangement areas A11 and A12 shown in FIG. Articles are allocated and arranged in one article arrangement area A11 having a higher priority later. When an article is arranged in the article arrangement area, the article arrangement unit 45 stores the article arrangement state in the article arrangement state storage unit 34 and updates the article arrangement state. By the way, the vertically long article arrangement area A1 is divided into two square size article arrangement areas A11 and A12 by a dividing line in the short direction, and an article is allocated and arranged in one square size article arrangement area A11. Well, at that time, the other article placement areas A2, A3, A4, C1 should not be divided. There is a great possibility that an article containing a vertical article image or an article containing a horizontal article image will be placed in the display priority order later. At this point, a vertical article arrangement area or a horizontal article arrangement area will be displayed. This is because everything is not destroyed.

  If there is no article arrangement area that can be divided (step S17 / No), the arrangement of the article is abandoned (step S20).

  Next, based on the article arrangement status stored in the article arrangement status storage unit 34, the article arrangement unit 45 searches whether there is an unarranged article arrangement area where no article is arranged (step S21). ). If there is an unplaced article placement area (step S21 / Yes), 1 is added to n (step S22), and the nth article stored in the prioritized article storage unit 33 is taken out (step S12). ). The processing operations in steps S12 to S22 are continued until there is no unplaced article placement area.

  Then, when there is no unallocated article arrangement area (step S21 / No), the article arrangement process is ended (End).

  As a result, articles are arranged in all the article arrangement areas constituting the template screen 50. Further, in considering one article arrangement area, it is efficient because the previous article is not prefetched and the article arrangement area to be examined is not retroactively reviewed. Each time an article is arranged in each article arrangement area constituting the template screen 50, the article arrangement unit 45 stores the article arrangement state in the article arrangement state storage unit 34 and updates the article arrangement state.

  In the above processing operation example, the description has focused on the aspect ratio of the article image, but the image size of the article image can be considered in the same manner. In the above processing operation example, it is first searched whether or not a horizontally long article image can be arranged in the horizontally long article arrangement area C1. If the image size of the article image is small, the article image is larger than the horizontally long article arrangement area C1. Should also be placed in the article placement area B1 having a small square size in the article placement area. Such an arrangement condition may be added to search for an article arrangement area.

<Specific examples of article placement>
Next, a specific example of article arrangement will be described. In the present embodiment, a case where the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 3 is used will be described. Further, it is assumed that the article with priority order shown in FIG. 7 is stored in the article storage section 33 with priority order.

  First, the article placement unit 45 refers to the prioritized article storage unit 33 and selects the article 1 having the highest priority from the prioritized articles shown in FIG. 7 in the article placement area of the template screen 50 shown in FIG. Assign to and arrange. In this case, since the article image included in the article 1 has a square size, the article 1 is allocated and arranged in the square-sized article arrangement area B1 shown in FIG. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 1 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thus, the information indicating that the article placement area B1 has been placed and the article 1 is placed in the article placement area B1 is stored.

  Next, the article placement unit 45 assigns and places the article 2 having the second priority in the article placement area of the template screen 50 shown in FIG. In this case, since the article image included in the article 2 has a vertically long size, the article 2 can be placed and assigned to the vertically sized article placement region A1 shown in FIG. 3 having the highest priority. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 2 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thereby, the information indicating that the article placement area A1 has been placed and the article 2 is placed in the article placement area A1 is stored.

  Next, the article placement unit 45 assigns and places the article 3 having the third priority in the article placement area of the template screen 50 shown in FIG. In this case, since the article image included in the article 3 has a square size, the article 3 is allocated and arranged in the square-sized article arrangement area B2 shown in FIG. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 3 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thereby, the information indicating that the article placement area B2 has been placed and the article 3 is placed in the article placement area B2 is stored.

  Next, the article placement unit 45 assigns and places the article 4 having the fourth priority in the article placement area of the template screen 50 shown in FIG. In this case, since the article image included in the article 4 has a horizontally long size, the article 4 is allocated and arranged in the horizontally long article arranging region C1 shown in FIG. 3 where the article 4 can be arranged and has the highest priority. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 4 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thereby, the information indicating that the article placement area C1 has been placed and the article 4 is placed in the article placement area C1 is stored.

  Next, the article placement unit 45 assigns and places the article 5 having the fifth priority in the article placement area of the template screen 50 shown in FIG. In this case, since the article image included in the article 5 has a horizontally long size, there is no article arrangement area in which the article 5 can be arranged in the article arrangement area of the template screen 50 illustrated in FIG. For this reason, the vertically arranged article placement area A2 having the highest priority among the article placement areas that can be divided is divided by the dividing line in the short direction, and the two square size article placement areas A21 and A22 shown in FIG. , And article 5 is assigned and arranged in one square-sized article arrangement area A21 having a high priority. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 5 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thereby, the article arrangement area A2 is divided by the dividing line in the short direction to generate article arrangement areas A21 and A22, the article arrangement area A21 has already been arranged, and the article 5 is arranged in the article arrangement area A21. The information is memorized. Further, information indicating that the article placement area A22 is not placed is stored.

  Next, the article placement unit 45 assigns and places the article 6 having the sixth priority in the article placement area of the template screen 50 shown in FIG. In this case, since the article image included in the article 6 has a vertically long size, the article 6 is allocated and arranged in the vertically long article arranging area A3 shown in FIG. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 6 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thereby, the information indicating that the article placement area A3 has been placed and the article 6 is placed in the article placement area A3 is stored.

  Next, the article placement unit 45 assigns and places the article 7 having the seventh priority in the article placement area of the template screen 50 shown in FIG. In this case, since the article image included in the article 7 has a square size, the article 7 is allocated and arranged in the square-sized article arrangement area A22 shown in FIG. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 7 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thereby, the information indicating that the article placement area A22 has been placed and the article 7 is placed in the article placement area A22 is stored.

  Next, the article placement unit 45 assigns and places the article 8 having the eighth priority in the article placement area of the template screen 50 shown in FIG. In this case, since the article image included in the article 8 has a square size, there is no article arrangement area in which the article 8 can be arranged in the article arrangement area of the template screen 50 illustrated in FIG. For this reason, the vertically arranged article placement area A4 having the highest priority among the article placement areas that can be divided is divided by the dividing line in the short direction, and the two square size article placement areas A41 and A42 shown in FIG. And the article 8 is allocated and arranged in one of the square-sized article arrangement areas A41 having a high priority. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 8 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. As a result, the article arrangement area A4 is divided by the dividing line in the short direction to generate article arrangement areas A41 and A42, the article arrangement area A41 has already been arranged, and the article 8 is arranged in the article arrangement area A41. The information is memorized. Further, information indicating that the article placement area A42 is not placed is stored.

  Next, the article placement unit 45 assigns and places the article 9 having the ninth priority in the article placement area of the template screen 50 shown in FIG. In this case, since the article image included in the article 9 has a vertically long size, the article 9 is allocated and arranged in the square-sized article arrangement area A42 shown in FIG. The article placement unit 45 stores the situation in which the article 9 is placed in the article placement state storage unit 34. Thus, the information indicating that the article placement area A42 has been placed and the article 9 is placed in the article placement area A42 is stored.

  The article arrangement unit 45 arranges articles in all article arrangement areas constituting the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 16 by the arrangement process described above, and ends the article arrangement process (End). The display control unit 46 arranges articles corresponding to the respective article arrangement areas constituting the template screen 50 shown in FIG. 16 based on the article arrangement state stored in the article arrangement state storage unit 34 and operates the operation display unit 20. To display. Thereby, the display control unit 46 can display the template screen 50 in which articles are arranged in the individual article arrangement areas shown in FIG. 16 on the operation display unit 20.

<Operation / Effect of Information Processing Apparatus 100 of Present Embodiment>
In the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment, in order from the article with the highest priority, the unallocated articles satisfying the arrangement condition in which the article images included in the articles can be arranged from the article arrangement areas configuring the template screen 50. Article placement that can be divided in the unplaced article placement area when there is no unplaced article placement area that satisfies the placement condition and the article cannot be assigned and placed in the article placement area by searching the placement area The area is divided by a dividing line in the short direction, and articles are allocated and arranged in one article arrangement area after division. This makes it possible to efficiently arrange articles in the article placement area while changing the article layout.

  In addition, the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment obtains a personal attention level that is a user's interest estimation value for each article and a social attention level that is another user's interest estimation value for each article, and Based on the personal attention level and the social attention level, the priority of articles to be displayed on the operation display unit 20 is determined. Then, articles are allocated and arranged in the article arrangement area in order from the article with the highest priority. For this reason, articles optimal for individual users can be arranged in the article arrangement area and displayed on the operation display unit 20.

  Further, the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment selects an article placement area that satisfies the placement condition according to the priority order of the article placement area determined from the placement condition based on the aspect ratio of the article image included in the article and the size of the article image. Search and assign articles to place them. For this reason, since the article image is trimmed more appropriately, it is possible to prevent a situation in which the important area of the article image is removed and the article image cannot be specified. Articles with a large article image size can be preferentially assigned to a large article placement area, and articles with a small article image size can be preferentially assigned to a small article placement area to prevent deterioration of the article image. it can.

  The above-described embodiment is a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment alone, and various modifications are made without departing from the gist of the present invention. Implementation is possible.

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, a case has been described in which a vertically long article placement area and a horizontally long article placement area are divided into square size article placement areas. However, an article arrangement area having a square size larger than the article arrangement area of the portrait size and landscape size is provided on the template screen 50, and the article arrangement area having the large square size is provided as two article arrangement areas of two portrait sizes or two landscape orientations. It is also possible to divide into article arrangement regions of size.

  In the above-described embodiment, the article image is mechanically trimmed without performing recognition processing of an important region of the article image. This speeds up the process until the article image is displayed in the article placement area. However, it is also possible to recognize the important region of the article image by a simple method that does not require processing time, and to trim the article image according to the recognition result.

  In the above-described embodiment, articles are arranged in the optimum article arrangement area according to the aspect ratio of the article image included in the article. However, it is also possible to arrange an article in the optimum article arrangement area according to the resolution of the article image. The resolution of the article image is different for each article. In this case, it is preferable that an article image with a high resolution is displayed in a large article arrangement area, and an article image with a low resolution is displayed in an article arrangement area with a small size. Thereby, an aesthetically excellent article list screen can be displayed on the operation display unit 20.

  In the above-described embodiment, articles of article images of all sizes of a square size, a vertically long size, and a horizontally long size can be placed in a square size article placement region. However, it is also possible to arrange only articles of square size article images in the square size article arrangement area.

  In addition, the control operation in each unit constituting the information processing apparatus 100 of the above embodiment can be executed using hardware, software, or a combined configuration of both.

  In the case of executing processing using software, it is possible to install and execute a program in which a processing sequence is recorded in a memory in a computer incorporated in dedicated hardware. Alternatively, it can be installed in a memory in a general-purpose computer capable of executing various processes and executed.

  For example, the program can be recorded in advance on a hard disk or a ROM (Read Only Memory) as a recording medium. Alternatively, the program can be stored (recorded) temporarily or permanently in a removable recording medium. Such a removable recording medium can be provided as so-called package software. Examples of the removable recording medium include various recording media such as a magnetic disk and a semiconductor memory.

  The program is installed in the computer from the removable recording medium as described above. In addition, it is wirelessly transferred from the download site to the computer. In addition, it is transferred to a computer via a network by wire.

  The program can be used from a server on the network such as in the cloud. There may be a form in which only a part of the program is transferred to the computer.

  In addition, each unit configuring the information processing apparatus 100 of the above embodiment is not limited to performing the processing in time series according to the processing operation described in the above embodiment. For example, it is possible to construct the processing capability of a device that executes processing, or to execute processing in parallel or individually as necessary.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Information processing apparatus 200 Web server 10 Communication part 20 Operation display part 30 Storage part 31 Article storage part 32 Template screen storage part 33 Article storage part with priority 34 Article arrangement | positioning condition storage part 40 Control part 41 Article acquisition part 42 Personal attention Degree analysis part 43 Social attention degree analysis part 44 Article priority order determination part 45 Article arrangement part 46 Display control part

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Article placement means for placing the article stored in the article storage means for storing an article including an image in the article placement area of one of the template screens having a plurality of article placement areas;
Display control means for displaying on the display means the template screen in which the article is arranged in the article arrangement area,
The article placement means includes:
When the articles are allocated and arranged in the article arrangement area in order from the article with the highest priority displayed on the display means, the longitudinal direction of the image included in the article matches the longitudinal direction of the article arrangement area If the article cannot be arranged in the article arrangement area, the article arrangement area is divided by a dividing line in the short direction, and the article is allocated and arranged in one divided article arrangement area. An information processing apparatus characterized by that. The article placement means includes:
In order from the article with the highest priority, the article is assigned to the article placement area constituting the template screen, the longitudinal direction of the image included in the article assigned to the article placement area, and the assigned article placement area The longitudinal direction of the image included in the article assigned to the article placement area does not match the longitudinal direction of the assigned article placement area, and the article is placed in the article placement area. 2. The information according to claim 1, wherein the article placement area is divided by a dividing line in a short direction and the article is allocated and arranged in one divided article placement area when it is not possible to do so. Processing equipment. The article placement means includes:
Assigning the articles to the article placement area constituting the template screen in order from the article with the highest priority until there is no article placement area to which the article is not assigned in the article placement area constituting the template screen, 3. The longitudinal direction of an image included in the article assigned to the article arrangement area after the article is assigned is compared with the longitudinal direction of the assigned article arrangement area. Information processing device. The article placement means includes:
In order from the article with the highest priority, articles composed of images that can be arranged in the article arrangement area are allocated and arranged in the article arrangement area in which the article is not arranged in the divided article arrangement area. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus is an information processing apparatus. The article placement means includes:
In order from the article with the highest priority, the article arrangement area that satisfies the arrangement condition is searched according to the priority of the article arrangement area determined from the arrangement condition based on the aspect ratio and the image size of the image included in the article. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the article is allocated and arranged. The article placement means includes:
In order from the article with the highest priority, the article placement area that constitutes the template screen is searched for an unplaced article placement area that satisfies the placement condition in which the image included in the article can be placed, and the placement condition If there is no unplaced article placement area that satisfies the condition and the article cannot be assigned and placed in the article placement area, the article placement area that can be divided among the unplaced article placement areas 6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the article is divided by a dividing line, and the article is allocated and arranged in one divided article arrangement area. The article placement means includes:
Until the article arrangement area in which the article is not arranged disappears in the article arrangement area constituting the template screen, the arrangement condition in which the images included in the article can be arranged in order from the article with the highest priority is satisfied. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein an unallocated article arrangement area is searched. The article placement means includes:
The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein an image included in the article arranged in the article arrangement area is trimmed in accordance with the article arrangement area.   2. The article arrangement area constituting the template screen is configured with an aspect ratio of the article arrangement area of 2: 1, 1: 2, or 1: 1. Item 9. The information processing device according to any one of Item 8. An article arrangement process for arranging the article stored in the article storage means for storing an article including an image in the article arrangement area of one of the template screens having a plurality of article arrangement areas;
Causing the computer to execute a display control process for displaying the template screen in which the article is arranged in the article arrangement area on a display unit;
The article placement process includes:
When the articles are allocated and arranged in the article arrangement area in order from the article with the highest priority displayed on the display means, the longitudinal direction of the image included in the article matches the longitudinal direction of the article arrangement area If the article cannot be arranged in the article arrangement area without dividing the article arrangement area by a dividing line in the short direction, the article is allocated and arranged in one divided article arrangement area, A program characterized by that.

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