JP7443899B2 - information processing equipment - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus that uses a social network service to send and receive text to and from an external terminal, and particularly relates to a technique for associating the text with a document handled by a document application.

An information processing device sends and receives texts and the like to and from an external terminal via a social network service (SNS). In social network services, for example, when a user looks at a document such as materials and has a question, the user sends a question regarding the document to another user's external terminal, and receives and displays the answer to the question.

On the other hand, Patent Document 1 discloses that usage history information including user identification information of a user related to a document is generated and stored in a file server, and one or more documents containing a keyword are searched and extracted from the file server. An information processing apparatus is disclosed that identifies user information of a user related to a document from usage history information corresponding to one or more extracted documents and notifies the user.

Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2013-84215

As described above, in an information processing device, using a social network service, it is possible to send questions regarding documents to other users' external terminals, and receive and display answers to the questions. If it can be associated and displayed together with the document, convenience will be improved. However, simply sending and receiving questions and answers using a social network service does not allow the questions and answers to be associated with a document and displayed together with the document. Even with the technology described in Patent Document 1, it is not possible to associate questions and answers sent and received through a social network service with a document and display them together with the document.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to transmit and receive questions and answers regarding a document using a social network service, and to enable the questions and answers to be displayed together with the document.

An information processing device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a display unit, an operation unit through which instructions are inputted by a user's operation, a communication unit that performs data communication with an external terminal, and a document application that displays the document. displaying the document on the screen of the unit, outputting the document from the document application to the social network service application, inputting the first text to the social network service application by operating the operation unit, and transmitting the first text. When instructed, the social network service application causes the first text and the document to be transmitted from the communication unit to the external terminal, and a second text transmitted from the external terminal as a reply to the first text is When received by the communication unit, the second text is output from the social network service application to the document application, and the document application displays the first text and the second text together with the document on the display unit. A control unit for displaying information on a screen is provided.

According to the present invention, questions and answers regarding a document can be sent and received through a social network service, and the questions and answers can be displayed together with the document.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of an information processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a control procedure for displaying text of questions and answers to a document on a display unit, and storing the document, text of questions and answers, etc. as history information in a storage unit. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an initial screen displayed on a display unit of the information processing device. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a document displayed on a screen of a display unit. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a part of the document displayed on the screen of the display unit is selected and a symbol “?” is input. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a document displayed on a screen of a display unit, an SNS operation screen, and the like. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a state in which a question text and an answer text are added to a part of the document displayed on the screen of the display unit. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a document and a list of multiple types of SNS displayed on the screen of the display unit.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The information processing device 10 of this embodiment is, for example, a personal computer, and includes a display section 11, an operation section 12, a communication section 13, a storage section 18, and a control unit 19. These components are capable of transmitting and receiving data or signals to and from each other via a bus.

The display unit 11 includes a liquid crystal display (LCD), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), and the like.

The operation unit 12 is a keyboard or pointing device operated by a user.

The communication unit 13 is a communication interface, and is connected to an external terminal (not shown) through a network (such as an intranet), and transmits and receives data to and from the external terminal.

The storage unit 18 is a storage device such as a RAM (Random Access Memory) or an HDD (Hard Disk Drive), and stores various application programs and various information.

The control unit 19 includes a processor, a RAM (Random Access Memory), a ROM (Read Only Memory), and the like. The processor is, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit), an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), or an MPU (Micro Processing Unit). The control unit 19 functions as the control section 21 by executing the control program stored in the ROM or the storage section 18 described above by the processor described above.

The control unit 21 is in charge of overall control of the information processing device 10 . The control unit 19 is connected to the display section 11, the operation section 12, the communication section 13, the storage section 18, and the like. The control unit 21 controls each component and transmits and receives signals or data to and from each component.

Furthermore, the control unit 21 plays a role as a processing unit that executes processing according to the operation of the operation unit 12. Further, the control section 21 has a function of controlling the display section 11 and the communication section 13.

Furthermore, in the information processing device 10 of this embodiment, the control unit 21 reads out a document application (DOCAP) 22, a social network service application (SNSAP) 23, and the like from the storage unit 18, and operates according to the read applications. The document application (hereinafter referred to as DOC application) 22 is, for example, a word processor or the like, and is an application that creates and edits a document consisting of text, images, etc. according to instructions from a user input into the operation unit 12. A social network service application (hereinafter referred to as SNS application) 23 causes the display unit 11 to display the text input to the operation unit 12 through the communication unit 15, transmits the text to an external terminal of the communication partner, and sends the text to the external terminal of the communication partner. This is an application that, when the communication unit 15 receives text sent from the SNS application of the terminal, causes the display unit 11 to display the received text.

Here, in the information processing apparatus 10 of the present embodiment, when a document such as materials is displayed on the display unit 11 by the DOC application 22 and the user looks at the document and has a question, the SNS application 23 The text of the question regarding the document is sent to another user's external terminal, and the text of the answer to the question is received from the external terminal. The DOC application 22 acquires the texts of the questions and answers from the SNS application 23, adds them to the document, and displays them on the display unit 11. The DOC application 22 also causes the storage unit 18 to store the document, the text of the questions and answers, etc. as history information, and displays the content of the document and the text of the questions and answers included therein on the display unit 11 based on this history information. to be displayed. Therefore, the user can view the content of the document and the text indicating the questions and answers simultaneously and at any time, improving convenience.

Next, a control procedure is performed in which the DOC application 22 and the SNS application 23 display the text of questions and answers to the document on the display unit 11, and store the document, the text of the questions and answers, etc. as history information in the storage unit 18. will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 2 and the like.

The control unit 21 causes the display unit 11 to display an initial screen G1 as shown in FIG. 3, for example. This initial screen G1 displays a plurality of icons 41a to 41h associated with respective functions. For example, when an icon 41h indicating a folder is designated by the user's operation of the pointing device of the operation unit 12, the control unit 21 causes each file in the folder associated with the designated icon 41h to be displayed. The input of the instruction is accepted, and according to the instruction, each file in the folder stored in the storage section 18 is searched, and each icon representing each file in the folder is displayed on the screen of the display section 11. When the user operates the pointing device of the operation unit 12 and inputs an instruction to open a file indicated by an arbitrary icon displayed on the screen, the control unit 21 stores the document of the file associated with the icon. At the same time, the DOC application 22 is executed to open the document as the DOC application 22 and display the document on the screen of the display unit 11 (S101). For example, the DOC application 22 displays a document 31 on the screen of the display unit 11 as shown in FIG. Note that in the following, when the control unit 21 operates as the DOC application 22 and executes control or processing, it will be expressed as the DOC application 22 executing the control or processing.

In this state, when the user operates the pointing device of the operation unit 12 and inputs an instruction to scroll or enlarge/reduce the document, the DOC application 22 displays the information on the screen of the display unit 11 in accordance with those instructions. Scroll or scale the document. This allows users to see the entire document. At this time, the user visually checks the text or image indicating the content of the document, and if a question arises about the document or image forming part of the document, the user operates the pointing device of the operation section 12 to On the screen, specify the display location of the document or image that is part of the document and in which the question arises. The DOC application 22 selects a portion of the specified document and highlights it. Here, for example, when the user operates the keyboard of the operation unit 12 and inputs the symbol "?" at the end of a part of the document, the DOC application 22 displays the part of the document on the screen of the display unit 11. A symbol "?" is displayed at the last part of (S102). For example, as shown in FIG. 5, a portion 31A of the document is selected and highlighted, and a symbol "?" 32 is displayed on the screen of the display unit 11 at the end of the portion 31A of the document. Note that the DOC application 22 may receive an instruction to display the symbol "?" 32 in response to a right click of the pointing device, and may display the symbol "?" 32 in accordance with this instruction.

Next, the user operates the pointing device of the operation unit 12 to specify the symbol “?” displayed on the screen of the display unit 11. When the control unit 21 receives the designation for the symbol “?” (S103), the control unit 21 executes the SNS application 23 to display an SNS operation screen on the display unit 11, and displays a part of the selected document. 31A is output from the DOC application 22 to the SNS application 23 (S104). Note that in the following, when the control unit 21 operates as the SNS application 23 and executes control or processing, it will be expressed as the SNS application 23 executing the control or processing.

Then, when the user operates the operation unit 12 to input text indicating a question regarding the part of the document in which the question arises, the SNS application displays the text of the input question on the SNS operation screen. , the text of the question and the part 31A of the document acquired in S104 are transmitted from the communication unit 15 to the external terminal (S105).

The external terminal receives the text and part of the document for those questions using the same SNS application 23 running on the information processing device 10, and displays the text and part of the document on the SNS operation screen. let Then, the SNS application 23 of the external terminal returns the text as the answer input by the user of the external terminal to the information processing device 10.

In the information processing device 10, when the communication unit 15 receives the text of the answer transmitted from the external terminal, the SNS application 23 displays the text indicating the answer on the SNS operation screen together with the text indicating the question. Display it (S106). For example, as shown in FIG. 6, a question text TQ and an answer text TA are displayed on the SNS operation screen 33.

Further, the SNS application 23 outputs the text TQ of the question and the text TA of the answer to the DOC application 22. The DOC application 22 obtains the text TQ of the question and the text TA of the answer from the SNS application 23. The DOC application 22 causes the SNS operation screen 33 showing the question text TQ and the answer text TA to be displayed on the screen of the display unit 11 adjacent to the document part 31A (S106). For example, as shown in FIG. 7, an SNS operation screen 33 showing a question text TQ and an answer text TA is displayed on the screen of the display unit 11 together with a portion of the document 31A.

Then, the DOC application 22 causes the storage unit 18 to store the file name of the document, the document part 31A, the question text TQ, and the answer text TA as history information (S107).

From now on, unless the SNS application 23 is terminated on the SNS operation screen, the user will be able to operate the pointing device of the operation unit 12 in the same way as above when a new question arises regarding another part of the document. Then, the process of S102 to S107 is repeated by specifying another part of the document, operating the keyboard of the operation unit 12, and inputting the symbol "?" at the end of the other part of the document. is possible. That is, these processes are repeated until the user operates the operation unit 12 and inputs a termination instruction to terminate the SNS application 23 (S108 "No").

Then, when the user operates the operation unit 12 and inputs a termination instruction to terminate the SNS application 23 (S108 "Yes"), the control unit 21 terminates the SNS application 23 in accordance with the instruction. After this, the process shown in FIG. 2 ends.

In this way, in this embodiment, the text of a question regarding a document is sent from the SNS application 23 to another user's external terminal, the text of the answer to the question is received from the external terminal, and the text of those questions and answers is sent to the DOC. Since the application 22 adds to the document and displays it on the display unit 11, the user can easily understand the questions and answers, improving convenience.

Further, the DOC application 22 creates history information indicating the file name of the document, part of the document, the text of the question, and the text of the answer and stores it in the storage unit 18, so the DOC application 22 stores this history information. It is possible to display part of the document, questions and answers on the display section 11 again by using this function. For example, the DOC application 22 reads out the history information from the storage section 18 and displays it on the screen of the display section 11 in response to an instruction input by the user through the operation section 12 . That is, the DOC application 22 reads out the part of the document, the question text, and the answer text stored together with the file name of the designated document from the history information, and displays them on the screen of the display unit 11. Thereby, even if the user forgets questions asked in the past or answers to the questions, the user can quickly check the questions and answers.

Note that in the above embodiment, one social network service is used, but one of a plurality of types of social network services may be selectively used. For example, as shown in FIG. 8, when a part 31A of the document is highlighted and a symbol "?" 32 is displayed on the screen of the display unit 11 at the end of the part 31A of the document, When the user operates the pointing device of the operation unit 12 to specify the symbol "?", the DOC application 22 displays a list LI of multiple types of social network services on the display section in response to the designation of the symbol "?". 11. The user operates the pointing device of the operation unit 12 to input an instruction to select an arbitrary social network service. The storage unit 18 stores SNS applications of a plurality of types of social network services, and the control unit 21 executes the SNS application of any social network service selected by the user's instruction. This SNS application causes the SNS application to display the SNS operation screen on the display unit 11 in the same manner as the processing by the SNS application described above, and displays the text of the question input by the user regarding a part of the document and the external terminal. The text of the answer to the question received from the user is displayed on the operation screen of the SNS along with a part of the document, and the text of the question and the answer, more preferably, the type of social network service used is displayed. The information shown is added and output to the DOC application 22. The DOC application 22 causes the text of the question and the text of the answer to be displayed on the screen of the display unit 11 along with a portion of the document. In this case, if the DOC application 22 has obtained not only the file name of the document, part of the document, the text of the question, and the text of the answer, but also information indicating the type of social network service used, The type of social network service provided is also stored in the storage unit 18 as history information. Thereafter, when the historical information is read out from the storage unit 18 by the DOC application 22 and displayed on the screen of the display unit 11, the user can check the social network used for sending and receiving questions and answers based on the display of the historical information. The type of service can be known, and the history of questions and answers can be checked by starting the SNS application of this social network service.

Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, questions and answers regarding the document itself may be subject to the above-mentioned transmission, reception, and display, rather than a part of the document. For example, while a document is being displayed on the screen of the display unit 11 by the DOC application 22, the user operates the pointing device and keyboard of the operation unit 12 to select any part of the document without selecting any part of the document. When the symbol "?" is input in the location, the DOC application 22 displays the symbol "?" anywhere in the document, and when the symbol "?" is input by operating the pointing device of the operation unit 12 , acquires the entire document or the file name of the document and outputs it to the SNS application 23, causes the SNS application 23 to display the text of the question and the entire document or the file name of the document on the SNS operation screen, and displays the text of the question and the file name of the document. Send the entire document or the file name of the document to an external terminal. Then, the SNS application 23 displays the text of the answer received from the external terminal on the SNS operation screen, and further outputs the text of the question and the text of the answer to the DOC application 22. The DOC application 22 displays the acquired question text and answer text on the screen of the display unit 11 adjacent to the symbol "?" of the document, and also displays the document file name, question text, and answer text. is stored in the storage unit 18 as history information.

Furthermore, in the above embodiments, a personal computer is exemplified as the information processing device, but the present invention can also be applied to smartphones and other electronic devices. For example, even if the image forming apparatus includes an image reading section that reads an image of a document and an image forming section that records the read image on recording paper, the display section 11, the operation section 12, and the communication section in the information processing apparatus 10 may be This image forming apparatus can also be an embodiment of the electronic device according to the present invention, as long as it has constituent elements corresponding to the unit 13, the storage unit 18, and the control unit 21.

Further, the configuration of the above embodiment described using FIGS. 1 to 8 is only an example of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention to this configuration.

10 Information processing device 11 Display section 12 Operation section 15 Communication section 18 Storage section 19 Control unit 21 Control section

Claims (7)

A display section;
an operation section through which instructions are input by the user;
a communication section that performs data communication with an external terminal;
Displaying a document on the screen of the display unit by a document application, outputting the document from the document application to a social network service application, and inputting the first text to the social network service application by operating the operation unit; When the transmission of the first text is instructed, the social network service application causes the communication unit to transmit the first text and the document to the external terminal, and the external terminal transmits the first text as a reply to the first text. When the second text that has been written is received by the communication unit, the second text is output from the social network service application to the document application, and the document application outputs the first text and the second text. An information processing device comprising: a control unit that displays the document on a screen of the display unit. The control unit causes the document application to output a portion of the document specified by the operation of the operation unit to the social network service application, and the first text is input to the social network service application by the operation of the operation unit. and when the transmission of the first text is instructed, the social network service application causes the first text and a portion of the document to be transmitted from the communication unit to the external terminal, and from the external terminal the first text is transmitted. When the second text transmitted as a text reply is received by the communication unit, the second text is output to the social network service application and outputted from the social network service application to the document application. , the first text and the second text are displayed on the screen of the display unit together with a part of the document. Equipped with a storage section,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit causes the storage unit to store the part of the document, the first text, and the second text as history information. When an instruction to display the history information is input by operating the operation unit, the control unit displays a portion of the document, the first text, and the second text indicated by the history information on the display unit. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein the information processing device displays information. When an instruction to select one of a plurality of preset social network service applications is input by operating the operation unit, the control unit controls the document, The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first text and the second text are transmitted and received. Equipped with a storage section,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the control unit causes the storage unit to store the document, the first text, the second text, and the selected social network service application as history information. When an instruction to display the history information is input by operating the operation unit, the control unit displays the document, the first text, the second text, and the selected social network service indicated by the history information. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein an application is displayed on the display unit.