JPH07220050A - Editing processing method for multi-media data and work station - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform the editing processing of a multi-media data only with an icon moving operation on the display picture of a work station. CONSTITUTION:An editing processing program 61 controls the editing processing corresponding to positional relations between adjacent icons. A table 71 manages the correspondence between the editing processing program 61 and inter-icon positional relations. A table 72 manages the correspondence between icons on a display device 3 and a voice data group 73. A controller 1 refers to the table 71 by operator's icon moving operation to start the editing processing program corresponding to positional relations between the moved icon and adjacent icons. A synthesizer 5 refers to the table 72 to read out voice data corresponding to the moved icon and adjacent icons from the voice data group 73 and performs the editing processing determined by the program.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a workstation and a method of editing multimedia data (for example, voice data, moving image data, etc.) in a workstation by moving an icon.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a method of editing / reproducing multimedia data including voices on a screen in a workstation, for example, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-287884, a desired area is displayed on the screen. It is only proposed that a voice unit that is stored in advance is defined as a voice unit and that a voice stored in advance is reproduced by clicking this portion. Generally, for the editing process of audio data, etc., a specialized audio data editing dedicated screen must be used, and the end point of one audio data and the starting point of another audio data are connected to be combined into one audio data. Even if you wanted to perform simple speech synthesis, the operation was complicated.

[0003]

The above-mentioned prior art does not take into consideration the fact that simple voice synthesis or the like is quickly performed by a simple icon operation in a workstation, and even when editing simple voice synthesis or the like. However, there was a problem that complicated operations had to be performed using a screen dedicated to audio data editing.

It is an object of the present invention to perform editing processing of multimedia data simply and quickly by moving an icon by dragging an icon on a display surface with a mouse or the like.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention associates icons on a display surface with stored multimedia data, as well as a positional relationship between adjacent icons and an editing process. By performing the icon moving operation by the operator, the editing process corresponding to the positional relationship between the icons is performed for each multimedia data corresponding to the moved icon and the icon adjacent to the moved icon. .

[0006]

When the operator moves the icon by dragging the mouse or the like and the icon 1 is adjacent to the left of the icon 2, the end point of the multimedia data corresponding to the icon 1 and the start point of the multimedia data corresponding to the icon 2 are set. Edit them into one multimedia data by connecting them. On the contrary, when the icon 1 is adjacent to the right of the icon 2, the end point of the multimedia data corresponding to the icon 2 and the start point of the multimedia data corresponding to the icon 1 are connected. When icon 1 is adjacent to icon 2, multimedia data corresponding to icon 1 is
Edit the multimedia data corresponding to icon 2 to one parallel multimedia data with the starting point of these two multimedia data being the same, and vice versa.
When the icon 1 is adjacent to the icon 2 below, it is edited into parallel multimedia data having an upside-down relationship. Similarly, even when the positional relationship between the icon 1 and the icon 2 is oblique, the two multimedia data are edited according to the positional relationship. Further, even in the case of three or more icons such as between the icon 1 and the icon 2 and the icon 3, each multimedia data is edited according to the positional relationship of each icon. The multimedia data to be edited may be any data such as voice data, moving image data, map data and the like.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. In the following embodiment, for convenience of description, the adjacency relationship is limited to two icons, and the editing process is
When the moved icon is adjacent to the top of an icon (upper adjacent), adjacent to the lower (lower adjacent), adjacent to the left (left adjacent), and adjacent to the right (adjacent right). Limited to 4 types. The edit target is audio data.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a workstation according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is a control device for controlling the entire apparatus, 2 is an input device such as a keyboard for an operator to input commands and data, 3 is a display device for displaying icons, multimedia data and the like, 4
Is a voice output device such as a speaker for outputting voice, 5 is a synthesizing device for synthesizing a plurality of voice data, 6 is a storage device for storing programs, and 7 is a storage device for storing various data. Here, in the present embodiment, the storage device 6 stores an audio data editing processing program 61, and the storage device 7 stores an edit instruction relative position table 71, an icon table 72, and a voice data group 73.

A mouse or the like as a pointing device is connected to the input device 2 or the display device 3, but it is omitted in FIG. Generally, the movement of the icon on the display surface is performed by operating this kind of mouse. Also,
The storage devices 6 and 7 are general terms for internal storage (RAM, ROM, hard disk, etc.) and external storage (floppy disk, optical disk, etc.), and their usage forms are arbitrary.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the structure of the edit processing program 61 on the storage device 6. The edit processing program 61 is a program that controls a predetermined edit processing for two corresponding audio data depending on the positional relationship between the two icons.
Here, the program 1 is used as the edit processing program 61.
It is assumed that there are four types, i.e., 4 to 4, each of which controls the editing process corresponding to the positional relationship of top, bottom, left, and right with respect to the other icons of the moved icon in order from the top. In addition, in FIG.
An example in which the programs 1 to 4 are prepared in continuous areas on the storage device 6 has been shown, but it is of course possible to prepare them in discrete areas. In addition, programs can be added and deleted freely according to the combination of the positional relationships of interest.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the structure of the edit instruction relative position table 71 on the storage device 7. Columns No. 1 to No. 4 correspond to the programs 1 to 4 in FIG. The editing instruction relative position table 71 is a table for managing the correspondence between the positional relationship between two icons and the editing processing program,
An area for storing left and right upper and lower limit values representing a relative coordinate range between two icons and an address pointer indicating an address on the storage device 6 of the corresponding edit processing program (for example, a start address shown in FIG. 2) for each column. Consists of an area for storing. In FIG. 3, the left, right, upper, and lower limit values of the relative coordinate range are shown by the coordinate value of the icon (focused icon) that has been moved and operated from the center point of the adjacent icon, as an example. It is a thing.
Note that the coordinate system is generally "-" on the left, "+" on the right, "-" on the top, and "+" on the bottom as the display on the display surface is performed from left to right and from top to bottom. ". The state of the positional relationship between the icons in each case (No. 1 to No. 4) of FIG. 3 is specifically shown as (1) to (4) of FIG. In FIG. 4, a solid line square is an adjacent icon, and a dotted line square is a moving operation target icon (target icon). The configuration of the edit instruction relative position table 71 of FIG.
It goes without saying that the editing processing program 61 shown in FIG. 2 is also added or deleted in response to the addition or deletion.

FIG. 5 shows an icon table 7 on the storage device 7.
2 is a configuration example of No. 2. The icon table 72 is a table that manages the display position of each icon displayed on the display device 3 and the correspondence with an audio data group 73 described later. For each icon, the number assigned to the icon ( N
o.), attribute information such as name and meaning, the current coordinate value on the display surface of the icon, and a storage destination address pointer (start / end address) of the corresponding voice data. here,
The current coordinate value is updated as the corresponding icon moves. In FIG. 5, the current coordinate value of the icon is indicated by two points, the upper left corner and the lower right corner, but this may be indicated by the coordinates of the four corners. The address pointer of the audio data is blank when the audio data corresponding to the icon does not exist. When associating the moving image data with the icon, an address pointer for the moving image data may be added. In general, as many address pointer areas as multimedia are prepared.

FIG. 6 shows an example of the structure of the voice data group 73 on the storage device 7. When associating voice data with an icon, the start / end address of the voice data is registered as the voice data address pointer of the corresponding icon in FIG. As will be described later, the voice data obtained by the editing process is additionally stored in the voice data group 73. At this time, an icon corresponding to the voice data is newly displayed on the display device 3, and the management data of the icon is additionally registered in the icon table 72 of FIG.

In the configuration shown in FIGS. 1 to 6, the operation until the edit processing program is started according to the positional relationship between the moved icon and the icon adjacent to the moved icon by the operation of moving the icon will be described below. A description will be given based on the flowchart. The control of FIG. 7 is handled by the control device 1 of FIG.

In FIG. 7, a counter i is a counter for identifying an icon in a vertical and horizontal positional relationship with the moved icon, and "i" indicates the icon No. of the icon table in FIG. The counter j is a counter for identifying an edit processing program corresponding to the positional relationship between the moved icon and the adjacent icon,
“J” indicates columns No. of the programs 1 to 4 in FIG. 2, that is, the edit instruction relative position table in FIG.

When the operator operates to move a certain icon, it is judged in step 101 and step 102
Then, the management data of the moved icon is read out from the icon table 72 of FIG. 5 and held. The current coordinate value in this management data indicates the value after movement.

In the processing after step 103, the relative positional relationship between the moved icon and each of the other icons is checked by sequentially looking at the icon table 72 of FIG. This is a process of referring to the edit instruction relative position table 71 in FIG. 3 to detect an adjacent icon having a vertical and horizontal positional relationship with the moved icon and activating an edit processing program corresponding to the positional relationship.

First, in step 103, the counter i is initialized (i = 1), and in step 104, it is determined whether or not the icon indicated by the counter i is the same as the moved icon. Here, if they are the same, the icon table 7 in FIG.
In order to advance 2 to the next icon No., the counter i is incremented by 1 in step 110, and then the process returns to step 104 via step 111.

When it is determined in step 104 that the counter i does not match the moved icon, in the next step 105, the icon table 72 of FIG.
The management data of the icon corresponding to the counter i is read out and the current coordinate value in the management data and step 102 are read.
Relative coordinates between the moved icon and the icon indicated by the counter i are calculated from the current coordinate values in the management data read in step.

Next, at step 106, the counter j is initialized (j ≠ 1). In the loop of steps 107 to 109, the columns of the editing instruction relative position table 71 of FIG. 3 are sequentially searched from No. 1 to No. 4, and step 10
This is a process of determining whether the relative coordinates calculated in step 5 are included in any of the four relative coordinate ranges set in the edit instruction relative position table 71.

The processes of steps 107 to 109 are repeated, and when it is determined in step 109 that the value of the counter j exceeds the number of registered columns (4 in the table of FIG. 3) of the edit instruction relative position table 71, that is, If the relative coordinates calculated in step 105 are not included in any coordinate range of the edit instruction relative position table 71 of FIG.
In step 110, the counter i is incremented by 1. Then, in the next step 111, it is determined whether or not the value of the counter i exceeds the total number of icons, that is, it is determined whether all the icon tables 72 of FIG. Move on to checking the next icon, indicated by i.

In this way, in step 107, the relative coordinates between the icon of the counter i and the moved icon are within the relative coordinate range in the column indicated by the counter j in the edit instruction relative position table 71 of FIG. When it is determined that the value is determined, the process proceeds to step 120. In step 120, according to the address pointer j set in the corresponding column j of the edit instruction relative position table 71 of FIG. 3, the edit processing program 61 shown in FIG.
Start the program j in.

On the other hand, when it is determined in step 111 that the value of the counter i exceeds the total number of icons,
That is, if all icons in the icon table 72 of FIG. 5 are overlooked and there is no icon having a positional relationship of up, down, left, and right defined in the edit instruction relative position table 71 of FIG. Is 2
Since it is not intended to instruct the edit processing (synthesis processing) of the audio data corresponding to the positional relationship between the two icons, the processing ends.

Next, the synthesizer 5 shown in FIG. 1 will be described. The synthesizer 5 edits (synthesizes) the voice data corresponding to the two icons in the following manner under the control of the activated edit processing program, and outputs the voice data to the display device 3 or the voice output device 4. First, referring to the icon table 72 shown in FIG. 5 in the storage device 7, the address pointer in the management data corresponding to the moved icon (designated as icon 1) and the icon of the counter i (designated as icon 2) are displayed. According to the address pointer in the corresponding management data, the voice data group 73 shown in FIG.
The icon 1 corresponding voice data and the icon 2 corresponding voice data are read out. Next, the read two audio data are subjected to a synthesis process according to the positional relationship between the icon 1 and the icon 2, and output to the display device 3 or the audio output device 4. At this time, the control device 1 additionally stores the new audio data created by the synthesizing device 5 in the audio data group 73 shown in FIG. 6 in the storage device 7 and also creates a new audio data corresponding to the audio data. The icon is displayed on the display device 3 and the management data of the icon is additionally registered in the icon table 72 shown in FIG.

FIG. 8 shows an example of the icon moving operation of the operator and the audio data to be edited (synthesized) at that time. In the figure, reference numeral 800 is a display surface. Here, the icon 1 shown in 801 represents the audio data shown in 811 and
It is assumed that the icon 2 shown by 02 represents the audio data shown by 812. When the operator uses the mouse or the like attached to the input device 2 or the like to move the icon 1 adjacent to the left of the icon 2, it can be seen from FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 that the left adjacent in the edit processing program 61 of FIG. The edit processing program 3 is started. Under the control of this program, the synthesizer 5 refers to the icon table 72 of FIG. 5 and reads out the icon 1-corresponding voice data 811 and the icon 2-corresponding voice data 812 from the voice data group 73 of FIG. , Voice data 812 at the end of the voice data 811
The processing is performed so that the start points of are connected to form one audio data. The audio data created by this editing process is shown in 813. The control device 1 adds the voice data 813 created by the synthesizer 5 to the voice data group 73 of FIG. 6 and expresses the voice data 813 803.
5 is displayed on the display surface, and management data corresponding to the icon 3 is added to the icon table 72 of FIG.

Similarly, when the operator performs an operation of adjoining the icon 1 to the icon 2, the operation shown in FIGS.
The edit processing program 1 at the time of the upper adjacent is started. In this case, the synthesizing device 5 performs the processing of synthesizing one voice data in which the voice data indicated by 811 and the voice data indicated by 812 are simultaneously set as the start points, and the respective voice data are stored in different tracks. That is, in this editing process, the voice data 814 is created, and the icon 4 804 representing this is displayed on the display surface. Then, the icon data of the icon 4 is added to the icon table 72 of FIG. 5, and the audio data 814 is added to the audio data group 73 of FIG.

Although one embodiment of the present invention has been described above, it is easily possible to extend it to the editing processing of three or more audio data according to the positional relationship of three or more icons. Further, in the description of the embodiments so far, if the audio data is replaced with the moving image data, the editing process of connecting or synthesizing a plurality of moving image data in sequence is performed by a simple icon operation in the same manner. It is possible.
The same applies to various multimedia data other than voice data and moving image data.

[0028]

According to the inventions of claims 1 and 3, editing of multimedia data such as voice data and moving image data can be performed in a workstation by a simple operation of moving an icon, and voice and the like. It can be easily used by people who do not have specialized knowledge about. Moreover, since only the icon moving operation is performed without using the audio data editing dedicated screen, the number of operation instructions is small and the editing processing time can be shortened.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the multimedia data obtained by the editing process can be used for the subsequent editing process by the simple operation of moving the same icon, and the complicated editing process can be performed to some extent. become.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a workstation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration example of an edit processing program.

FIG. 3 is a configuration example of an edit instruction relative position table.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a relative coordinate range in the edit instruction relative position table of FIG.

FIG. 5 is a configuration example of an icon table.

FIG. 6 is a configuration example of a voice data group.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a procedure for activating an edit processing program by an icon moving operation.

FIG. 8 is a specific example of editing processing by an icon moving operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Control Device 2 Input Device 3 Display Device 4 Voice Output Device 5 Synthesis Device 6 Program Storage Device 61 Editing Processing Program 7 Data Storage Device 71 Editing Instruction Relative Position Table 72 Icon Table 73 Voice Data Group

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A method for editing multimedia data in a workstation, comprising: a storage unit for storing multimedia data; and a display unit for displaying a plurality of icons, wherein the icons are associated with the multimedia data. Corresponds to the positional relationship between adjacent icons for each multimedia data corresponding to the moved icon and the icon adjacent to the moved icon by the operator's icon moving operation. A method for editing multimedia data, characterized by performing the edited processing. 2. The method for editing multimedia data according to claim 1, wherein the edited multimedia data is additionally stored in the storage means, and an icon corresponding to the multimedia data is additionally displayed on the display means. A method for editing multimedia data, characterized by: 3. A workstation comprising: storage means for storing multimedia data; display means for displaying a plurality of icons; and icon moving means for moving an icon display position according to an operator's operation. Means for performing editing processing corresponding to the positional relationship between the icons, means for registering the corresponding relationship between each icon and multimedia data, and means for registering the corresponding relationship between the positional relationship between adjacent icons and the editing processing And an icon (hereinafter, referred to as an adjacent icon) adjacent to the moved icon (hereinafter, referred to as an attention icon) is detected by the operator's icon moving operation, and the multimedia data corresponding to the attention icon and the adjacent The multimedia data corresponding to the icon is read and each read multimedia Against Iadeta, workstations and having a means for starting the editing process corresponding to the positional relationship between the focused icon and the adjacent icons.