JP6286949B2 - Document browsing system, document browsing apparatus, control method, and program. - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a technology of a document browsing system capable of changing a scrolling speed of a document displayed for browsing.

  Conventionally, an electronic file is browsed by an information processing apparatus such as a PC. And there is a need to share a well-read part, such as when sharing electronic files with multiple users.

  In the case of a document with a large number of pages, it takes too much time to read all of them, and there are cases where it is difficult to grasp what is important. Patent Document 1 proposes a system for searching for a mark in a sentence using a searched history in a document of a document as a mechanism that can cope with this.

  As a result, it is possible to easily obtain a search result that is highly useful to the user while the document stored in a predetermined company or organization is easily accessed from the destination.

JP 2011-134209 A

  However, the document search system described in Patent Document 1 can display the description content corresponding to a specific keyword, but when the keyword is not clear, for example, or when it is desired to read the whole obliquely. Cannot identify important points.

  For example, when inputting a keyword, there may be a case where a desired result cannot be obtained if the keyword is not conceived or is input by mistake. For the time being, if you want to read the entire image diagonally, keyword input is not suitable. In this case, there is a desire to know pages that are often read by other users, pages that have been browsed for a long time, or pages that have been reused due to copy operations or the like.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism capable of notifying a part that is considered useful for a user according to the level of content displayed when browsing an electronic document.

Point storage means for storing points for display items of the electronic document, scroll acceptance means for accepting scrolling to the displayed electronic document, and to the electronic document according to points for the display items displayed by the accepted scrolling Scroll control means for controlling the speed of scrolling, and scroll direction detection means for detecting the direction of the scroll received by the scroll reception means, and scrolling in the direction opposite to the forward direction by the scroll direction detection means. When the screen is detected, the scroll control means controls to skip a display item having a low point .

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, it becomes possible to provide the structure which can notify the location considered useful for a user according to the level of the content displayed when browsing an electronic document.

It is a system configuration figure showing an example of the system configuration of the document browsing system of the present invention. It is a hardware block diagram which shows an example of the hardware configuration of the document browsing apparatus of this invention. It is a functional block diagram which shows an example of a function structure of the document browsing system of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the document browsing process in the document browsing system of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the scroll implementation process in the document browsing system of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the display point management process in the document browsing system of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the scroll screen (forward feed) in the document browsing system of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the scroll screen (reverse feed) in the document browsing system of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the display point management image in the document browsing system of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the display point table in the document browsing system of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an example of the system configuration of the document browsing system of the present invention.

  The client terminal devices (document browsing devices) 101 and 102 are connected to the server 103 via a network, and can browse electronic documents such as an electronic manual stored in the server 103. The server 103 has information indicating the importance of each page or chapter of the electronic manual, for example. With regard to the importance level, for example, it is conceivable to manage the number of times viewed by other users and the amount of browsing time as high importance levels.

  In addition, an operation in which an electronic manual creator assigns importance to important parts in advance can be considered.

  When the user scrolls the electronic manual displayed on the client terminal 101, pages with high importance are scrolled slowly, and pages with low (less) importance are scrolled at high speed.

  Thereby, even if it is an electronic manual browsed for the first time, since an important page is scrolled slowly, it can know where important (or many are browsed).

  Further, the client terminal 101 and the client terminal 102 have the same function, and not limited to two, more client terminals may be connected. Similarly, a plurality of servers 103 may be connected.

  Further, since the client terminal has the function of the server 103, the document browsing system can be configured by one client terminal.

  FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of the document browsing apparatus according to the present invention.

  The client terminal (document browsing device) includes a CPU 201, RAM 202, ROM 203, input controller 204, video controller 205, memory controller 206, communication I / F controller 207, keyboard / mouse 208, display 209, and external memory 210.

  The CPU 201 comprehensively controls each device and controller connected to the system bus. Further, the ROM 203 or the external memory 210 is necessary to realize a BIOS (Basic Input / Output System) or an operating system program (hereinafter referred to as an OS), which is a control program of the CPU 201, or a function executed by each server or each PC. Various programs to be described later are stored.

  The RAM 202 functions as a main memory, work area, and the like for the CPU 201. The CPU 201 implements various operations by loading a program necessary for execution of processing from the ROM 203 or the external memory 210 into the RAM 202 and executing the loaded program.

  The input controller 204 controls input from a pointing device such as a keyboard / mouse. The video controller 205 controls display on a display device such as the display 209.

  The memory controller 206 is an adapter for an external storage device (hard disk (HD)), flexible disk (FD), or PCMCIA card slot for storing boot programs, various applications, font data, user files, editing files, various data, and the like. Controls access to an external memory 210 such as a compact flash (registered trademark) memory connected via the network.

  The communication I / F controller 207 connects and communicates with an external device via a network, and executes communication control processing on the network. For example, communication using TCP / IP is possible.

  The CPU 201 enables display on the display 209 by executing outline font rasterization processing on a display information area in the RAM 202, for example. Further, the CPU 201 enables a user instruction with a mouse cursor (not shown) on the display 209.

  FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram showing an example of a functional configuration of the document browsing system of the present invention.

  It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the characteristic function of the client terminal device 101 and the server apparatus 103 in connection with embodiment of this invention.

  The client terminal apparatus 101 includes an input unit 301, a data display unit 302, a display data determination unit 303, and a display information transmission unit 304.

  The server apparatus 103 includes a data storage unit 305, a data reading unit 306, a data point management unit 307, and a data point calculation unit 308.

  The input unit 301 acquires an input signal from the user using the keyboard / mouse 208 in FIG.

  The data display unit 302 is a processing unit realized by the CPU 201, the ROM 203, the video controller 205, and the like in FIG. 2, and displays data (for example, an electronic document such as an electronic manual) acquired by the data reading unit 306 of the server on a display or the like. Display on the device.

  The display data determination unit 303 is realized by the CPU 201, the ROM 203, and the like in FIG. The display data determination unit 303 performs display control such as a scroll speed on the electronic document displayed on the data display unit 302 according to information from the data point management unit 307 of the server.

  The display information transmission unit 304 is a processing unit realized by the CPU 201, the ROM 203, and the like in FIG. The display information transmission unit 304 transmits information such as the displayed electronic manual page to the data point calculation unit 308 of the server.

  The server data storage unit 305 stores the electronic manual and is called from the client via the data reading unit 306.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of a document browsing process in the document browsing system of the present invention.

  It is assumed that the client terminal 101 processes steps S401 to S408, and the server apparatus 103 processes steps S410 to S412.

  In step S401, the user logs in to the document browsing system by performing a predetermined operation. In step S402, the electronic manual designated by the user is read from the server, and an application for displaying the manual is started.

  At this time, the server apparatus 103 receives as a request for reading the point (importance) set in the designated electronic manual in step S410, and in step S411, the point set for the display item of the electronic document. Is acquired from the point management unit 307 and transmitted to the client terminal in step S412.

  In step S403, the point transmitted from the server in step S412 is read. The point is an importance set for a display item such as a page, a table of contents number, or a URL of an electronic document displayed on a document browsing apparatus such as an electronic manual. Points may be added to browsing histories by a plurality of users, or an administrator may give importance to display items. Details will be described with reference to FIG.

  An electronic manual is displayed in step S404, and a scrolling speed is set for the display item of the manual displayed in step S405.

  If it is detected in step S406 that scrolling has been performed, the process proceeds to step S407, where scroll processing is performed at the set speed. In step S408, it is determined whether or not the manual display is ended (closed), and steps from step S406 to step S406 are performed. The loop of S408 is performed. When the electronic manual is closed (when the display application is terminated), the process is terminated.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an example of scroll execution processing in the document browsing system of the present invention.

  It is a detailed flowchart of the scroll process shown to step S407 of FIG.

  In this flowchart, the display item in which the importance of the electronic manual is set is described as a page.

  When scrolling is detected, in step S501, the scroll direction is detected, which is forward feed from the top to the bottom of the screen (forward direction) or reverse feed from the bottom of the screen to the top (reverse direction). In the case of forward feeding, the display speed is determined based on the page point displayed in step S502, scrolling is performed at the speed determined in step S503, and the process ends. An example of the scroll screen will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a scroll screen (forward feed) in the document browsing system of the present invention.

  A description will be given taking display screens 702 to 704 of the document browsing apparatus 701 as an example. For example, the display screen 702 is an initial display screen, and the display items in the electronic file are scrolled and displayed when scrolling is performed in order.

  The point is set as a level indicating importance with respect to display items such as pages and chapters. The scrolling speed when scrolling is changed according to this point. An example of points will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a display point table in the document browsing system of the present invention.

  The point table 1001 includes “user authority information”, “target file name”, “page information”, “chapter information”, “HTML tab information”, and “point” information as file information 1002.

  The “user authority information” stores information such as the authority and role of the user viewing the electronic file. By using this information, it is possible to provide useful information for users having the same role.

  As registered data examples, “general”, “beginner”, “developer (not shown)”, “system administrator (not shown)”, and the like are registered.

  “Target file name” stores a target file name, and is used to specify a file by accepting designation of an electronic file name from the user.

  As examples of registered data, “reference book A”, “reference book B”, “reference site”, and the like are registered. In the case of a reference book, it may be stored in association with path information for specifying a file, and the reference site may be stored in association with URL information.

  “Page information”, “chapter information”, and “HTML tag information”, which are information relating to display items, store information for items for which point management is performed. When the display item is a page, the scrolling speed is controlled in units of pages, for example, when the page is switched, and in the case of chapters, for example, scrolling is performed in units of chapters using the table of contents information attached to the document. Speed is controlled.

  In the case of a tag, the electronic file to be displayed manages points with respect to the tag using tag information in a structured language such as HTML.

  As registration data, a page number in the case of “page”, a chapter name in the case of “chapter”, and a tag described in an HTML file or the like in the case of “tag” are registered.

  “Point” is set with the importance for the display item of the electronic file. In the present embodiment, a high score is assigned to a high importance item. Alternatively, a reference point may be determined (30 in this embodiment), and the scroll speed may be determined depending on whether the point is higher or lower.

  Points are stored as registered data. This point may be added according to the viewing status of the target file according to other users, or may be set in advance by the administrator for important items. Further, instead of the number of points, the level may be managed as “up”, “middle”, or “down”, or may be managed as scroll control “high speed”, “normal”, or “low speed”.

  Returning to the description of FIG. When forward scrolling is performed, the screen 702 displays “page 10” of “reference book A”, so that “point” is set to 20 and low, so scrolling is faster than the standard speed.

  Since the screen 703 displays “page 11” of “reference book A”, since “point” is set to 40 and high, scrolling is slower than the standard speed.

  The screen 704 displays “page 12” of “reference book A”, so “point” is set to 30 and standard, so the scroll speed is standard (for example, the value set for the scroll speed of the client terminal). Scrolls at speed.

  The screen 705 is an example in which a page with a higher point than the screen 702 is displayed, and the scroll speed in that case is slower than the scroll speed when the screen 703 is displayed. Returning to the description of FIG.

  If it is determined in step S501 that it is reverse feeding, the process proceeds to step S504, and it is determined whether the point of the displayed page is equal to or greater than a predetermined value. For example, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 10, 30 points or more can be determined as a predetermined point or more.

  If it is determined that it is equal to or greater than the predetermined point, the process proceeds to step S505, where scrolling is performed at the speed set by reverse feed. On the other hand, if it is equal to or smaller than the predetermined point, the page is not displayed (skip) in step S506. ) Display the next page and end the process. An example of the reverse feed screen from step S504 to step S506 will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a scroll screen (reverse feed) in the document browsing system of the present invention.

  It is a screen image when scrolling is performed in the reverse direction from the display screen 805 of the document browsing apparatus 801 toward the display screen 802. It is assumed that points of items displayed on the display screen are higher, lower, lower, and higher than predetermined points in order from 805 to 802.

  Since the display screen 804 has high points, the display items are normally displayed. The display screens 803 and 804 are skipped (skip) and the next display item is displayed on the display screen 802. Next, a method of adding points according to the viewing status of the user will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an example of display point management processing in the document browsing system of the present invention.

  It is a figure which shows the flowchart regarding the data point managed by the server 103 which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

  Processing is started by displaying an electronic manual in step S601. In step S602, it is determined whether a displayed item (for example, page, chapter, tag) has been displayed for a certain period of time. If the certain time has elapsed, the server adds a point to the display item as a page point. Send to the device.

  The server apparatus accepts page point addition in step S611, and adds display page points in step S612. In the display point table shown in FIG. 10, points are added to the display items for each user authority.

  In step S604, the client terminal determines whether or not the manual has been displayed, and performs a loop process from step S601 to step S604. The process ends when the electronic manual is closed.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a display point management image in the document browsing system of the present invention.

(1) It is detected that a specific page is displayed for a certain time on the client device.
(2) The addition point for the display page is transmitted to the server.
(3) The server adds the received addition point to the display point table.

  As a result, pages that are read a lot according to other people's usage will be displayed at a slower scroll speed, so you can scroll through the entire document and know the items that are considered important read by many people Is possible.

  Although one embodiment has been described above, the present invention can take an embodiment as, for example, a system, apparatus, method, program, or recording medium, and specifically includes a plurality of devices. The present invention may be applied to a system including a single device.

  Further, the program according to the present invention is a program capable of executing the flowchart processing method by a computer, and the storage medium according to the present invention stores a program capable of executing the flowchart processing method by the computer.

The program in the present invention may be a program for each processing method of each device.

  As described above, a recording medium that records a program that implements the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or apparatus, and a computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus stores the program stored in the recording medium. It goes without saying that the object of the present invention can also be achieved by executing the reading.

  In this case, the program itself read from the recording medium realizes the novel function of the present invention, and the recording medium storing the program constitutes the present invention.

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

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

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

  Further, the present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of a single device. Needless to say, the present invention can be applied to a case where the present invention is achieved by supplying a program to a system or apparatus. In this case, by reading a recording medium storing a program for achieving the present invention into the system or apparatus, the system or apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention. Furthermore, by downloading and reading a program for achieving the present invention from a server, database, etc. on a network using a communication program, the system or apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention.

  In addition, all the structures which combined each embodiment mentioned above and its modification are also included in this invention.

101 Client terminal 102 Other client terminal 103 Server 201 CPU
202 RAM
203 ROM
204 Input Controller 205 Video Controller 206 Memory Controller 207 Communication I / F Controller 208 Keyboard / Mouse 209 Display 210 External Memory (HD)

Claims (8)

A document browsing system in which a server and a document browsing device are connected via a network and can browse an electronic document stored in the server,
Point storage means for storing points for display items of the electronic document;
Scroll accepting means for accepting scrolling to the displayed electronic document;
Scroll control means for controlling a speed of scrolling to the electronic document in accordance with a point with respect to a display item displayed by the accepted scroll;
Scroll direction detecting means for detecting the direction of the scroll received by the scroll receiving means,
When the scroll direction detecting unit detects scrolling in a direction opposite to the forward direction, the scroll control unit controls to skip a page having a low point. A browsing state acquisition means for acquiring a browsing state by another user for the display item of the electronic document by the document browsing device;
Point update means for updating the points stored in the point storage means according to the viewing status by other users for the display item acquired by the browsing status acquisition means;
The document browsing system according to claim 1, further comprising: 3. The document browsing system according to claim 1, wherein the scroll control unit controls the scroll speed to be slow when the point of the display item is high. 3. The document browsing system according to claim 1, wherein the scroll control unit controls the scroll speed to be increased when the point of the display item is low. The display item includes at least page information, chapter information document viewing system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that, and is either tag information. A document browsing device capable of browsing an electronic document,
Point storage means for storing points for display items of the electronic document;
Scroll accepting means for accepting scrolling to the displayed electronic document;
Scroll control means for controlling the speed of scrolling to the electronic document according to the point with respect to the content displayed by the accepted scroll;
Scroll direction detecting means for detecting the direction of the scroll received by the scroll receiving means,
When the scroll direction detecting means detects scrolling in the direction opposite to the forward direction, the scroll control means controls to skip a page with a low point. A method for controlling a document browsing system, in which a server and a document browsing device are connected via a network so that a stored electronic document can be browsed and has a point storage unit that stores points for display items of the electronic document,
A scroll acceptance step for accepting scrolling to the displayed electronic document;
A scroll control step for controlling a speed of scrolling to the electronic document according to a point with respect to a display item displayed by the accepted scroll;
A scroll direction detecting step for detecting a scroll direction received by the scroll receiving step,
When scrolling in the direction opposite to the forward direction is detected in the scroll direction detection step, the scroll control step controls to skip a page with a low point. A program that can be read by a document browsing system in which a server and a document browsing device are connected via a network, can browse a stored electronic document, and has point storage means that stores points for display items of the electronic document. ,
The document browsing system;
Scroll accepting means for accepting scrolling to the displayed electronic document;
Scroll control means for controlling a speed of scrolling to the electronic document in accordance with a point with respect to a display item displayed by the accepted scroll;
Scroll direction detecting means for detecting the direction of the scroll received by the scroll receiving means,
In order to function as a document browsing system, wherein when the scroll direction detecting means detects scrolling in a direction opposite to the forward direction, the scroll control means controls to skip a page with a low point. Program.

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