JPH05174055A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently use the information of an electronic publishing material by retrieving information accumulated in plural electronic publications in a single operation, and using by displaying retrieval result information on the same display means simultaneously. CONSTITUTION:This processor is equipped with the display device 1 to display the plural electronic publications, an input device 2 to input the various kinds of information of a key word for the retrieval of electronic publication information, etc., a controller (CPU) 3 to control the whole device, a memory device 4 to store a program to control the whole and the processing procedure of a flow chart, a CD-ROM drive unit 5 to read in the information accumulated in the electronic publication, a magnetic disk device 6 to store managing table information, and a magneto-optical disk device 7 to store result information retrieved previously. The title for retrieval of the electronic publication is registered on the memory device 4 in advance, and a single program is retrieved corresponding to an instruction from the input device 1 by an operator, and the CPU 3 displays the information on the display device 1 in multiwindows simultaneously.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, and more particularly to improvement of an information processing apparatus capable of reproducing information using electronic publications and creating documents using electronic publications.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a large number of electronic publications carrying a large amount of multimedia information such as voices, images and documents have been published.
The use of information processing devices for electronic publications has become popular. Further, recently, information processing devices for moving images have come to be used. For this type of information processing apparatus, it is extremely difficult to search for information from a plurality of electronic publications with a single search program, because the information structure of the information to be displayed varies. Therefore, a search program dedicated to each electronic publication is usually stored on a separate medium (such as a floppy disk).
Had to be supplied by. In order to deal with such inconvenience, standardization from low-level physical format to high-level application format has been proposed for electronic publications, and in recent years, electronic book players have been released and search using the same search program. Became possible.

[0003]

However, when retrieving the same or similar information from a plurality of electronic publications and displaying the retrieval result, the same retrieval preparation work and retrieval operation are required again. There is a problem that it is unavoidable, that is, it takes too much time for the search process. Further, since it is not possible to simultaneously display and use the search result information based on a plurality of electronic publications on the same display means, there is an inconvenience that the document creation / information reproduction work is interrupted.

Therefore, the object of the present invention is to search the information accumulated in a plurality of electronic publications by a single operation, and display the search result information on the same display means at the same time for use. An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device for electronic publications, which can efficiently use information of electronic publications.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, in an information processing apparatus capable of registering / searching information accumulated in an electronic publication, a reading operation for reading accumulated information of the electronic publication. Means, display means for displaying the stored information read by the reading means, input means for inputting a search instruction for stored information of the electronic publication, and information to be displayed on the display means by two or more multi-displays. A processing unit for creating screen information to be output and displayed as a window, an input instruction from the input unit, a processing result of the processing unit, and various management table information to be output on the screen of the display unit are stored. A search means for searching for the title of the electronic publication registered in the storage device in advance by a single search program in response to an operator's input instruction; At the same time it was to be displayed on the shows means. In the invention of claim 2, the reading means is C
It is composed of a D-ROM drive device. According to a third aspect of the invention, the reading means is a CD-ROM jukebox device.

[0006]

In the information processing apparatus according to the first aspect, the title name for retrieval of electronic publications is stored in the storage device. The accumulated information of the electronic publication is read by the reading means. When the operator gives a search input instruction from the input means, the search title name designated by a single search program is searched and displayed by the processing means as a multi-window on the display means. In the information processing apparatus according to the second aspect of the present invention, the reading means is composed of a CD-ROM drive device, and reads the stored information of the loaded CD-ROM. According to another aspect of the information processing apparatus of the present invention, the reading means is constituted by a CD-ROM jukebox device, and the stored information of the loaded CD-ROM is read.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the information processing apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of an information processing apparatus for electronic publications according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a display device for displaying information of a plurality of electronic publications, and 2 is a keyword for searching information of electronic publications and various information for operating the information processing apparatus. Is an input device, 3 is a control device (CPU) for controlling the entire device, and 4 is for storing a program for controlling the entire device and a processing procedure of flowcharts described later (see FIGS. 4 and 5). Memory device. Reference numeral 5 denotes a CD-ROM drive device for reading the information accumulated in the electronic publication, and 6 stores management table information (title name management table, pre-seach management table, which will be described later) necessary for retrieval. 7 is a magneto-optical disk device for storing the previously retrieved result information.

FIG. 2 shows a magnetic disk on the magnetic disk device 6 and a title name management table as an example of management information stored on the memory device 4. In FIG. 2, 30
0 is the title name management table, and 300a stores each title name (1 to n) of the electronic publication.
Address information (1) indicating which position in the magnetic disk on the magnetic disk device 6 or the memory device 4 the index of each title of the electronic publication is stored in b.
~ N) are stored. Therefore, when the operator retrieves the information of the title name selected from the input device 2, the index of the electronic publication on the CD-ROM device 5 is not read directly, and the address 3 corresponding to the title name 300a is read.
The index indicated by 00b is read from the magnetic disk on the magnetic disk device 6 and searched.

FIG. 3 shows a magnetic disk on the magnetic disk device 6 and a pre-seach management table as an example of management information stored on the memory device 4. Address information (1 to n) indicating in which position of the magneto-optical disk of the magneto-optical disk device 7 the information on the result of the previous search is stored in 400a. Therefore, the information previously searched by the operator is not directly searched from the electronic publication on the CD-ROM device 5, but the information of the searched result indicated by the address 400b corresponding to the keyword 400a is obtained. The information is read from the upper magneto-optical disk and the information is displayed on the display device 1. 1
Note that FIG. 4 shows the relationship between each management table and data storage.

Next, the operation of the embodiment thus constructed will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6. First, the control device 3 checks whether or not the title name management table 300 and the pre-seach management table 400 exist in the memory device 4 (step 200). If it exists (step 200; Y), the control is transferred to step 221. On the other hand, if it does not exist (step 200; N),
The title name management table 300 and the pre-seach management table 400 are read from the magnetic disk on the magnetic disk device 6 onto the memory device 3 (step 201). When the reading is completed, the title of the electronic publication registered in advance in the title name management table is displayed on the display device 1 (step 221), and the operator selects the title of the electronic publication to be searched through the input device. (Step 222). However, if the operator does not find the title of the electronic publication to be searched on the display device 1 (step 2
23; Y), the new title name is newly registered in the title name management table 300 on the memory device 4 (step 224, step 225).

Next, the operator inputs the keyword of the information to be searched from the input device 2 (step 226), and the control device 3 judges whether the inputted keyword is the information searched previously or not on the memory device 4 in the pre-seach management table. 400
By searching the above keyword 400a, it is checked whether or not it is the keyword previously searched (step 22).
7). If the keyword exists (step 227;
Y), reading the search result information indicated by the address 400b corresponding to the keyword from the pre-seach management table 400 from the magneto-optical disk 7 to the memory device 4,
It is displayed on the display device 1 and the process ends (step 22).
8, 229).

The keyword input from the input device 2 is
If it is not the keyword searched previously (step 22)
7; N), the title selected in step 221 and the title added in steps 224 and 225 are CD-ROMs.
It is checked whether it exists on the drive device 5 (step 2
30), if not present (step 230; N), C
The address 300b on the title name management table 300 on the memory device 4 is checked to see if the index of the electronic publication mounted on the D-ROM drive device 5 exists on the magnetic disk on the magnetic disk device 6. (Step 231).

If the index exists (step 231; Y), the control is transferred to step 234. If the index does not exist (step 231; N), the index in the memory device 4 is written in the magnetic disk in the magnetic disk device 6 (step 232), and the magnetic disk is stored in the address 300b of the title name management table in the memory device 4. The address written in the magnetic disk on the device 6 is registered (step 233), and the electronic publication inserted in the CD-ROM drive device 5 is unmounted (step 234). Next, the title message of the electronic publication to be inserted on the CD-ROM drive device 5 is displayed on the display device 1 (step 235), and the operator inserts the title of the new electronic publication on the CD-ROM drive device. Upon completion, in order to check whether the index of the electronic publication inserted in the CD-ROM drive device 5 exists on the magnetic disk on the magnetic disk device 6, the title name management table on the memory device 4 is checked. Examine address 300b (step 23)
6).

If the index does not exist on the magnetic disk on the magnetic disk device 6 (step 236;
N), the index is read into the memory device 4 from the electronic publication inserted in the CD-ROM drive device 5 on the memory device 4 (step 237), and is stored in the address 300b of the title name management table on the memory device 4. Register the written address on the device 4 (step 23
8) The control is transferred to step 240. If the index exists on the magnetic disk on the magnetic disk device 6,
On the memory device 4, the index is read from the magnetic disk on the magnetic disk device 6 onto the memory device 4 (step 239), the information indicated by the keyword is searched from the input device 2, and the hit information is read onto the memory device 4. (Step 240). When the search is complete, step 22
The title selected in step 2, step 224, step 2
It is checked whether the title added in step 25 still exists (step 243). Here, if the title exists (step 243; Y), the control returns to step 2
Return to 30.

On the other hand, if the title does not exist (step 243; N), the information on the memory device 4 retrieved in step 240 is displayed on the display device 1 (step 24).
1). Further, the information on the memory device 4 is written on the magneto-optical disk 7 (step 242), and the address on the magneto-optical disk 7 storing the information on the memory device 4 is the item address of the pre-seach management table 400 on the memory device 4. It is stored in 400b (step 244). Finally, the updated title name management table and pre-seach management table on the memory device 4 are written on the magnetic disk 6 (step 245), and a series of processing is completed.

In the embodiment described above, the following can be said. That is, when retrieving the information of an electronic publication, the feature of the electronic publication is its enormous amount of information, and it is important how to retrieve the necessary information quickly from this information. With the data structure of a conventional electronic book player, keywords are extracted from the information of electronic publications,
An entry, which is the smallest unit of an index, is configured in pairs with the address, and the entry is hierarchized to increase the speed. In the search process, the index is directly read from the CD-ROM drive device, which causes a problem in hardware performance. is there.

However, according to the present embodiment, the pre-seach management table 400 is provided, and if the keyword inputted by the operator from the input device 2 (step 226) is the same as before, the retrieval process is not executed. , The information of the retrieval result indicated by the address 400b corresponding to the keyword 400a on the pre-seach management table is read from the magneto-optical disc on the magneto-optical disc, and the retrieval result is displayed on the display device 1 (step 228). , Step 229). Therefore, the time required for the search operation can be significantly shortened, and information from a plurality of electronic publications can be simultaneously displayed on the same display device 1.

Further, by providing a title name management table 300, the title selected or added by the operator from the input device 2 (step 222, step 224, step 225) is processed by one keyword input operation (step). 226). In the case of a title for which a search process has been executed previously, the index indicated by the address 300b corresponding to the title name 300a on the title name management table is read from the magnetic disk on the magnetic disk 6 and stored on the CD-ROM. The index is not loaded. Therefore, it is possible to significantly reduce the processing time in terms of hardware performance, and it is possible to simultaneously display information from a plurality of electronic publications on the same display device 1.

In this embodiment, the case of the CD-ROM drive device 5 as the reading means for reading the information accumulated in the electronic publication has been described, but the reading means may be read from the CD-ROM jukebox device. By doing so, the mounting and unmounting operations of the electronic publication can be omitted, the complexity of the search operation can be improved, and the operability can be significantly improved.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, information stored in a plurality of electronic publications can be retrieved by one operation, and the retrieved information can be simultaneously displayed on the same display device. It becomes possible to use. In addition, information on electronic publications can be used efficiently.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a title name management table in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a pre-seach management table in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing each management table and a data storage relationship in the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of search processing in the embodiment.

6 is a continuation of the flowchart of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 display device 2 input device 3 CPU (control device) 4 memory device 5 CD-ROM drive device 6 magnetic disk device 7 magneto-optical drive device

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An information processing apparatus capable of registering / searching information accumulated in an electronic publication, comprising: reading means for reading accumulated information of the electronic publication; and the accumulated information read by the reading means. A display unit for displaying the information, an input unit for inputting a search instruction for the stored information of the electronic publication, and a processing unit for creating screen information for outputting and displaying the information displayed on the display unit as two or more multi-windows. And an input instruction from the input means, a processing result of the processing means, and storage means for storing various management table information to be output on the screen of the display means, which are registered in advance in the storage means. The retrieved title name of the electronic publication is retrieved by a single retrieval program in response to an operator's input instruction and is simultaneously displayed on the display means. An information processing device characterized by the above. 2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reading means is a CD-ROM drive device. 3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reading means is a CD-ROM jukebox device.