JPH04243419A - Card type processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To intuitively recognize the whole of card type data and to easily grasp the linkage relationship with respect to a specified applicable card type data along with the contents of the card by displaying the size-reduced image of the card type data stored in a reduced image storage part in the form of listing based on the instruction of a user. CONSTITUTION:Receiving the instruction from the user, a reduced image display controller 502 confirms the number of cards of the card type data being an object to display and determines the arrangement of the reduced image on the screen of a display device 62. The reduced images may be arranged on the screen by means of fixed arrangement in which the number of the reduced images displayed is always fixed, or by means of even arrangement in which the reduced images are displayed are evenly arranged while increasing or decreasing the interval for the images corresponding to the number of the images. When the screen arrangement of the reduced images is determined, the reduced images to be displayed are read out of a reduced data storage device 51 and arranged on the display device 62 according to the determined manner.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card-type data processing apparatus for creating, editing, and displaying card-type data that is a collection of image information, text information, etc. that is desired to be displayed at one time. A system that uses image information, text information, etc. as material information to create a piece of work on a personal computer or workstation is called an authoring tool. This authoring tool creates multiple pieces of card-type data with a certain set of contents, and then creates a network structure between the card-type data by creating links between the card-type data.

[0002] For this reason, when creating and editing card-type data, it is necessary to have a function that allows you to see the state of the entire card-type data that has already been created and edited.

0003

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in an authoring tool that creates a piece of work using image information, text information, etc. as material information, a list display that overlooks the entire card type data, for example, as shown in FIG. A possible method is to display a card data list including the card name, number of parts, etc. on the screen.

[0004] Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 10, for example, as shown in FIG. 10, all card-type data are treated equally, the contents of the card-type data are expressed as icons, and a straight line is drawn between them. A possible method is to display the link relationship by tying the links together.

[0005]

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] By the way, since authoring tools handle multimedia data such as images and text, it is important to use intuitive memory obtained from the image of a screen displaying card-type data. , color, area, arrangement, etc. play an important role when editing or when a user searches for specific card type data.

[0006] However, in the conventional tabular list display shown in FIG. 9, card type data is identified by character information, so it is difficult to search for cards during editing and to what extent the cards have been edited. It is inefficient because it is not possible to intuitively grasp the editing status to see if it has been completed. Also, regarding the display of link relationships in FIG. 10, the contents of the card cannot be determined from the icons, so necessary information cannot be obtained when performing link editing work while checking the contents of the card.

[0007] In other words, considering that multimedia data such as images and text are to be collected on cards, and the link relationships between cards are to be understood and edited, the necessary requirements are (1). It is necessary to be able to display the entire link relationship, (2) to display only the link relationship related to the card of interest, and (3) to be able to edit it. However, to date, no device has been realized that satisfies all of these requirements.

The present invention has been made in view of these conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a card-type data processing device that displays a list of all card-type data so that it can be intuitively recognized. . Another object of the present invention is to provide a card-type data processing device that makes it possible to easily grasp the link relationship to specific card-type data of interest together with the card contents.

[0009]

[Means for Solving the Problems] FIGS. 1 and 2 are explanatory diagrams showing the principle of the present invention divided into a first invention and a second invention. 1 and 2, the present invention first includes a main control means 1, an input means 2, an editing means 3, and a display means 6,
The object is a card-type data processing device that creates, edits, and displays one or more card-type data that is a collection of image information, text information, etc. that is desired to be displayed at once.

As such a card type data processing device, first of all, in the first invention shown in FIG. The present invention is characterized in that a list display processing means 5 is provided for displaying a list of reduced images of each card type data stored in the reduced image storage means 51 based on an instruction from the means 2.

Further, in the second invention shown in FIG.
list display processing means 5 for displaying a list of reduced images of each card type data stored in the reduced image storage means 51 based on instructions from the list display processing means 5; and card type data displayed in a list form by the list display processing means 5. Out of the reduced image, the attention card display means 8 displays specific card type data specified by the input means 1 as attention card type data in a position different from other card type data; The present invention is characterized by being provided with a link relationship display means 7 that displays the link relationship between the card type data of interest displayed at a specific position and other card type data in a list display.

Furthermore, in both of FIGS. 1 and 2, when the list display processing means 5 determines that the cursor 55 designates a reduced image of the card-type data displayed in a list, the list display processing means 5 displays the card of the specified reduced image. Equipped with a function to switch to displaying the type data itself. In addition, the list display processing means 5
Scroll button 5 that displays reduced images of card-type data in a list and scrolls the list display
Display 6.

[0013]

[Function] According to the card-type data processing device of the present invention having such a configuration, the following effects can be obtained. First, in the first invention shown in FIG. 1, since a list of reduced images of each card type data that is a collection of created and edited image information and text information is displayed on the screen, you can intuitively select a card from each reduced image. The contents can be captured, and it is possible to efficiently search for cards during editing and understand the editing status of the entire card.

On the other hand, in the second invention shown in FIG. 2, the link relationship between the particular card type data of interest and other card data is shown in a list display, and each card type data is displayed as a reduced image of the main body. Therefore, it is possible to intuitively understand the link relationship and the contents of the card having the link relationship at the same time, and the editing work of the link relationship can be performed more efficiently.

Furthermore, in both the first and second inventions, when a reduced image of the card-type data displayed in a list is designated with the cursor, for example, by clicking with a mouse, the display switches to the card-type data itself; Creating and editing individual card-type data and understanding the data as a whole can be done more easily. Furthermore, since it is expected that a list of card type data cannot be displayed on one screen, a scroll button is displayed, and the list display can be scrolled back and forth by operations such as a mouse click on the scroll button, so that the entire list can be viewed.

[0016]

Embodiment FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the first aspect of the present invention. In FIG. 3, 1 is a main control device, which controls the entire authoring tool system. 2 is an input unit, which includes an input control device 20, a keyboard 21, a mouse 22, and the like. Reference numeral 3 denotes an editing section, which includes a card data editing/creating device 30, a data reading/writing device 40, a material data storage device 41, and an edited data storage device 42.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a display unit, which is composed of a display control device 60, a video RAM (VRAM) 61, and a display device 62. 5 is a list display processing unit of the present invention, which is composed of a reduced image acquisition device 501, a reduced image display control device 502, and a list display state event handler 503. For the list display processing unit 5, a reduced image storage device 51
is connected, and stores a reduced image of the card-type data created by the editing section 3.

The functions of the reduced image acquisition device 501 are as follows. In normal card display/edit mode,
When the main control unit 1 receives a user's instruction from the input unit 1 to finish editing one card type data and move on to processing another card type data, the main control unit 1 sends the reduced image acquisition device 501 to acquire the reduced image. An order is issued. Therefore, the reduced image acquisition device 501 performs reduction processing on the card image displayed at that time to create reduced data and stores it in the reduced image storage device 51.

The degree of reduction in this case may be a constant reduction rate for all card type data, or may be variable depending on the number of card type data included in the data being edited, and the reduction rate may be set by the reduced image acquisition device 501. may be calculated. That is, if the number of card-type data increases, measures such as increasing the degree of reduction may be taken. Next, the reduced image display control device 502 will be explained. The reduced image display control device 502 starts processing when there is an instruction from the user to use the list display function using the keyboard 21 of the input unit 2. That is, upon receiving an instruction from the user, the reduced image display control device 502 checks the number of target card-type data and determines the arrangement of the reduced images on the screen of the display device 62.

Regarding the screen layout of this reduced image,
It may be a fixed arrangement in which the number of cards is always constant, or it may be possible to take measures such as increasing or decreasing the spacing between cards depending on the number of cards to arrange them evenly. Once the screen layout of the reduced image has been decided,
The reduced image to be displayed is read from the reduced data storage device 51 and displayed on the display device 62 according to the determined arrangement.

Furthermore, list display state event handler 503
Explain. The list display state event handler 503 is
Display device 62 by reduced image display control device 502
After a list of reduced images is displayed, for example, if a mouse click is performed with the mouse 22 on a reduced image of certain card type data, information on the card type data itself is acquired from the reduced image at the mouse click position,
This result is transmitted to the card data editing and creation device 30 of the editing section 3, and the card-type data main body of the reduced image clicked by the mouse is read out from the editing data storage device 42 and displayed on the display device 62, thereby normal display/ You can return to edit mode.

Next, processing operations according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 will be explained with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. First, the card type data to be edited has a shape as shown in FIG. Hereinafter, card type data will be simply referred to as a card. In the editing work, image data 100 and text data 10 shown in FIG.
The creation and editing work is carried out while simultaneously displaying one or more cards equipped with 2 on the screen. In normal card creation/editing processing, the card in the editing data storage device 42 is sent to the display unit 6, stored in the video RAM 61, and the video R
The display control device 60 reads it from AM61 and displays it on the display device 62.
to be displayed on the screen.

When an instruction to use the list display function is given from the keyboard 21 of the input section 2, the reduced image display control device 502 of the list display processing section 5 displays each card on the screen, for example, as shown in FIG. A list of reduced images is displayed. Since this list display is a reduced image of the main body of each card, it is possible to intuitively recognize the main card by looking at each reduced image, and furthermore, it is easy to understand how far the editing has progressed.

Next, in the list display of FIG. 5, if the mouse 22 is clicked while the mouse cursor 55 is aligned with a specific reduced card image, this mouse click is recognized by the list display state event handler 503, and the card data is The processing is returned to the editing/creating device 30, the display is switched to the card body corresponding to the reduced image clicked by the mouse, and the editing/creating mode is returned.

Furthermore, two scroll buttons 56 are displayed in the list display of FIG. That is, if the number of cards is greater than the number that can be displayed on one screen, the scroll button 56 is displayed on the screen, and the scroll button 56 is
In accordance with instructions such as a mouse click, the display can be shifted to a list display of reduced images of cards that are not visible in front or behind.

On the other hand, the reduced image is stored in the reduced image storage device 51 as follows. When a new card is created in the editing section 3, after the initial editing of the created card is completed, the screen image of the card is reduced and the reduced image of a certain size is memorized, and the editing work is added to this card. The reduced image is retained until it is used. At this time, the storage location of the reduced images is recorded in the editing data storage device 42, and when displaying a list, the total number of cards is read out from the editing data storage device 42, the screen layout is determined, and the corresponding reduced image is read out from the reduced image storage device 51 and displayed as shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a second embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 6, the main control device 1, the input section 2,
The editing section 3 and display section 6 are the same as those in the embodiment of FIG. 3, and a list display processing device 5 and reduced image storage device 51 having the configuration shown in the embodiment of FIG. 3 are also provided. Furthermore, Figure 6
In this embodiment, an attention card display device 8 and a link relationship display device 7 are newly provided, and are connected to the main control device 1 together with a list display processing device 5 via a display format switching device 9. Further, the link relationship display device 7 and the attention card display device 8 are connected to the edited data storage device 4 on the side of the editing department 3.
2 can be directly accessed by issuing an instruction to the data reading/writing device 40.

The display format switching device 9 switches what kind of list and link relationships are to be displayed on the screen according to instructions from the input unit 2 by the user. The display format in this embodiment includes, for example, the following modes A to E.
It can be divided into (A) Notable cards are not displayed, only a list is displayed. (B) Link relationships are displayed across all cards with the same list display as in mode A. (C) Display the cards of interest and only display a list. (D) Display the card of interest, and display only link relationships related to the card of interest. (E) Display the card of interest, and display link relationships across all cards.

These modes A to E are displayed as a menu or an icon, and a display command is sent to the list display processing device 5, link relationship display device 8, and attention card display device 7 along with parameters according to the user's selection. List display processing device 5
As shown in detail in the embodiment of FIG. 3, the reduced image is read out from the reduced image storage device 51 based on the parameters obtained from the display format switching device 9, that is, the number of display cards, the number of vertical and horizontal cards, etc. Display a list of image data on the screen.

[0030] The order card display device 8 searches the card data stored in the edited data storage device 42 for the specified card of interest and displays it at a predetermined specific position on the screen. Furthermore, the link relationship display device 7 displays the link relationships between the card of interest and other cards, or the link relationships across all cards, in response to a display command from the display format switching device 9. This link relationship is displayed by, for example, displaying an arrow from the button display position in the link source card toward the center of the link destination card.

Next, processing operations according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 6 will be explained with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8. First, the card created and edited in the embodiment shown in FIG. 6 has the shape shown in FIG. 7, for example. That is, in addition to image data 100 and text data 102, a button marker 104 that is a trigger for displaying link relationships is displayed on the card, and by clicking this button marker 104 with the mouse, the link relationships can be displayed in a list. Can be repeated.

FIG. 8 shows a screen displaying only the card of interest and the link relationships related to the card of interest in mode D. In FIG. 8, a reduced image of the card of interest is displayed in the card of interest column on the left side of the screen, and a list of reduced images of other cards is displayed on the left side. In this state, when the mouse cursor 55 is placed on the button marker 104 shown in FIG. 7 of the card of interest and a click operation is performed, the link relationships between the card of interest and other cards as indicated by arrows are displayed.

Furthermore, on the display screen of FIG. 8, move the mouse cursor 55 to the displayed reduced images (including the card of interest)
When you click , the display changes to the card body of the clicked reduced image. Furthermore, if the number of cards is greater than the number of cards arranged on one screen when displaying a list, a scroll button 56 is displayed, and when the scroll button 56 is clicked with the mouse cursor 55, the display switches to the previous or next card list. In this scroll display, the attention card in the attention card field does not change, and if display of link relationships is specified, the link relationships will be displayed for the new list display after scrolling.

[0034]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the list display of the present invention, it is possible to intuitively grasp the entire picture of the card being edited visually, and since the list display plays an icon-like role, This is the operation button for card selection for editing processing, and the list screen and editing screen are well linked, allowing efficient editing work. Furthermore, since the link relationship between the card of interest and other cards is displayed in a list display that can be grasped intuitively, editing work on link relationships is easy and efficient.

Furthermore, by adopting a scrolling display of the list, even if there are a large number of cards, the list and link relationships can be easily displayed, making editing work easier.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

[Fig. 1] Diagram explaining the principle of the first invention

[Fig. 2] Diagram explaining the principle of the second invention

[Fig. 3] Embodiment configuration diagram of the first invention

[Fig. 4] Explanatory diagram of card-type data created and edited in the first invention

[Fig. 5] Explanatory diagram of card list display according to the first invention

[Figure 6
] Embodiment configuration diagram of the second invention

[Fig. 7] Explanatory diagram of card type data created and edited in the second invention

[Fig. 8] Explanatory diagram of card list display and link relationship display according to the second invention

[Figure 9] Explanatory diagram of conventional card-type data list display

[Figure 1
0] Explanatory diagram of conventional link relationship display

[Explanation of symbols]

1: Main control means (main control device) 2: Input means (input section) 3: Editing means (editing section) 5: List display processing means (list display processing device) 6: Display means (display section) 7: Link relationship Display means (link relationship display device) 8: Attention card display means (attention card display device) 9: Display format switching device 20: Input control device 21: Keyboard (KB) 22: Mouse 30: Card data editing and creation device 40: Data Reading/writing device 41: Material data storage device 42: Edit data storage device 51: Reduced image storage device 55: Mouse cursor 56: Scroll button 60: Display control device 61: Video RAM (VRAM) 62: Display device 100: Image data 102: Text data 104: Button marker 501: Reduced image acquisition device 502: Reduced image display control device

Claims (6)

[Claims] [Claim 1] A main control means (1), an input means (2), an editing means (3), and a display means (6), and one or a plurality of pieces of image information, text information, etc. to be displayed at once. In the card type data processing device for creating, editing and displaying card type data, the editing means (3)
a reduced image storage means (51) for storing a reduced image of the card-type data created and edited in the input means (51);
2), the reduced image storage means (
51) List display processing means (5) for displaying a list of reduced images of each card type data stored in the card type data processing device (51). 2. The card-type data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the list display processing means (5) specifies a reduced image of the card-type data displayed in a list using a cursor (55). A card-type data processing device characterized in that, when determining this, the device switches to displaying a designated reduced image of the card-type data body. 3. The card type data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the list display processing means (5) displays reduced images of the card type data in a list form, and
Scroll button (5) to scroll the list display
6) A card-type data processing device characterized by displaying. 4. A main control means (1), an input means (2), an editing means (3), and a display means (6), the main control means (1), the input means (2), the editing means (3), and the display means (6), and one or more image information, text information, etc. to be displayed at once. In the card type data processing device for creating, editing and displaying card type data, the editing means (3)
a reduced image storage means (51) for storing a reduced image of the card-type data created and edited in the input means (51);
2) based on instructions from the reduced image storage means (51
), a list display processing means (5) for displaying a list of reduced images of each card type data stored in , an attention card display means (8) for displaying specific card type data designated by the input means (1) as attention card type data in a position different from other card type data; and the attention card display means (8). A card type characterized by comprising link relationship display means (7) for displaying link relationships between the noted card type data displayed at a specific position in 8) and other card type data in a list display. Data processing equipment. 5. The card-type data processing device according to claim 4, wherein the list display processing means (5) specifies a reduced image of the card-type data displayed in a list using a cursor (55). A card-type data processing device characterized in that, when determining this, the device switches to displaying a designated reduced image of the card-type data body. 6. The card type data processing device according to claim 4, wherein the list display processing means (5) displays reduced images of the card type data in a list form, and
Scroll button (5) to scroll the list display
6) A card-type data processing device characterized by displaying.