JPH08180036A - Multi-media presentation data constitution method and system for the method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To use usually prepared data as they are by setting and storing the contents of working at the time of presentation, the starting time, presentation conditions and a reproducibly time-sequentially edited scenario file, extracting presentation data corresponding to the scenario file by activation and starting the working. CONSTITUTION: The start of data preparation is inputted to the service activation MMI part 11 of a main control part 12, the start of an operation is instructed to a scenario editing part 13 and a user specifies an intra document file using page document name used for scenario preparation and a page to be presented at the presentation from the MMI part 15. The specified contents are transmitted to a medium service control part 16 through the main control part 12 and the medium service control part 16 outputs the intra document file using page document name to be used to an input/output terminal 10 and outputs the file name of a medium to be superimposed to an input terminal 9. A document editing device 20 displays a document for the outputted intra document file page document name.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multimedia presentation material for displaying and explaining in advance a multimedia data consisting of at least two types of video, audio, document and graphic created in advance. Create, edit and configure.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the case of presentations such as product explanations, business standard proposals, and research presentations, it is required to express the contents to be conveyed in a stronger and more effective manner. Therefore, for optimal self-expression, the order of explanation and the display order of letters, symbols, sounds, images, etc. for explanation are predetermined and described on a computer, and the desired explanation is given to the computer at a desired time. A multimedia presentation system for displaying on a connected electronic display or the like is used.

As a first conventional technique, there is a system for inserting a character or symbol generated by a built-in character generator into a desired portion of a video image. This system uses a single character type (font)
The text is inserted by specifying the insertion position of the document and the size of the character. Basically, it is a superimposer of the character, cannot effectively express the character, and is not suitable for a complicated presentation. Further, once a character is inserted, the character is simply written in the image, so that there is a disadvantage that the document cannot be re-edited as it is.

As a second conventional technique, as shown in FIG. 8, an animation chart (foreground) that basically modifies specific characters / symbols on the document is basically superimposed on the document (background) in the PICT format. It is a thing. However, this system basically focuses on special effects by animation, and as shown in FIG. 9, the foreground animation chart can explain a document only at a constant display speed. . That is, since it is not possible to specify the display time for each superimposed object, the user is required to input a voice in accordance with the screen while looking at the screen. Therefore, there is a drawback in that it is not possible to spend sufficient time to explain important points.

[0005]

The first conventional multimedia presentation material composing apparatus described above is capable of only uniform character representation by using the document editing mechanism unique to the system. Although the device has various character expressions, it has a drawback that the display time cannot be specified for each object to be superimposed, which causes the following problems.

(1) Since only the system-specific document creation mechanism can be used, only standard expressions can be made and sufficient communication cannot be achieved.

(2) Usually, only the system-specific document creation mechanism can be used, which is inefficient, unlike the document creation mechanism used by users for office work.

(3) Since only the document creation mechanism unique to the system can be used, it is impossible to use the document already created by the user in daily work as a presentation material.

(4) Since the display time cannot be specified for each object to be superimposed on the document, it is not easy for the user to perform programming when taking sufficient time to explain an important part, and the presentation material It takes a lot of time to create and the work efficiency is poor.

(5) Due to the above-mentioned problems, the conventional system can be used only by some professional editors, and cannot be used for the purpose of improving work efficiency in daily office work. Almost impossible.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a multimedia presentation material composition system which requires no special skill and can be used as it is for materials that are created daily so that the user can easily use it. .

[0012]

According to the method for constructing multimedia presentation material of the present invention, a multimedia material including video, audio, document, drawing and pointer used for presentation is created, edited, modified, and designated in advance. A method for composing multimedia presentation materials that are configured to be presented in order and presented, in which presentation data including a presentation data, a presentation data, and a presentation time, which specifies the presentation material as a base from any material file to be extractable Changeable and registered, the step of creating the data and processing conditions of the supplementary material for processing the presented material and registering the reproduction data thereof so that they can be changed, and each material presented by the registered data. In addition, the content of the processing at the time of presentation, its start time, and the presentation conditions were edited in a reproducible time series. And storing by setting the Na Rio file, the boot has a step of initiating the extracted processed PRESENTATION accordance with the scenario file.

Regarding the document of the multimedia presentation material composition method of the present invention, the document file name of the presented document, the display page of the document, the display magnification of the page, the display order, and the display time are changeably registered. The step of creating the superimposition drawing and pointer data and the processing conditions for processing the presentation document and registering the reproduction data so that the reproduction data can be changed, and for each presentation document presented by the registered data, Setting and storing a scenario file in which the contents of the drawing / pointer to be superimposed at the time of presentation and its start time and presentation condition data are edited in a reproducible and time-sequential manner, and presented according to the scenario file by starting It has a step of extracting a material and starting processing.

Further, the multimedia presentation material composition system of the present invention can create, edit, modify, and maintain multimedia materials used for a presentation, which are composed of video, audio, documents, drawings, and pointers, and present them in a predetermined order. A multimedia presentation material configuration system configured and presented in a storage medium, storage means, specific data for enabling extraction of a base presentation material from an arbitrary material file, presentation conditions including a presentation magnification, and presentation time. Variably setting and registering means, means for creating the data and processing conditions of the supplementary material for processing the presentation material and variably registering the reproduction data thereof, and the presentation material presented by the registered data. For each time, the contents of the supplementary material to be superimposed at the time of presentation, its start time, and the date of the presentation condition Means for storing reproducibly set the time-series manner edited scenario files, the startup has a means for initiating the extracted processed PRESENTATION accordance with the scenario file.

With respect to the document of the multimedia presentation material composition system of the present invention, a storage means, a document file name of the presented document, a display page of the document, a display magnification of the page, and a display time are registered. A means for creating superimposing drawing / pointer data and processing conditions for processing the presentation document and registering the reproduction data so that the reproduction data can be changed, and presenting for each presentation document presented by the registered data. A means for setting and storing a scenario file in which the contents of the drawing / pointer to be subjected to time superimposition processing and its start time, and presentation condition data are edited in a time-sequential manner so as to be reproducible; Has a means for extracting and processing.

The present invention also includes a case where the drawing and pointer file is composed of a drawing element for each segment and a segment number indicating each drawing element.

Further, a system in which the document file, the superimposed drawing document file, and the drawing / pointer file are arbitrary external devices, and each of which is controlled via an interface device for editing is preferable in the present invention. It is a system of configuration.

[0018]

[Function] Document file name, document display page, document display magnification,
The document display time is registered, the superimposed document file name, the drawing and pointer file name, and the segment ID display start time are registered, and the presentation condition, the content to be processed, and the start time for each page document presented by the registered data. Set and store a scenario file edited in time series, and by starting, presenting a presentation document by extracting it from a file of a built-in or external device according to the scenario file, starting processing during presentation, and especially of an external device. When using a document file, a device for daily document editing may be used, and therefore a document created in daily office work can be used as it is to edit and process desired presentation materials.

[0019]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a system to which the method for constructing multimedia presentation materials of the present invention is applied, and FIG. 2 is a scenario editing unit 13 shown in FIG.
3 is a block diagram of the media service control unit 16 shown in FIG. This multimedia presentation material configuration system is a multimedia presentation control device 100 having a main control unit 12, a scenario editing unit 13, a scenario file 14, a media service control unit 16, and a timer monitoring unit 17,
Drawing / pointer editing device 18, which is an external device,
A presentation material configuration system for a document, which includes a pointer file 19, a document editing device 20, and a document file 21.

First, the operation of presentation material creation (hereinafter referred to as scenario creation) according to this embodiment will be described.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing the flow of the multimedia presentation material construction method of the present invention.

The user starts the material creation and the service start MMI section (man-machine interface) 1 of the main control section 12
1 is input (step 31). Based on the instruction, the main control unit 12 instructs the scenario editing unit 13, which is a processing module required for scenario creation, to start the operation. The response from the scenario editing unit 13 (step 32) indicates that the user is M
Page name used in the document file used for scenario creation from the MI unit 15 and the page presented in the presentation (1
(Page 33) is designated (step 33). The specified contents are transferred to the media service control unit 16 via the main control unit 12.
Is transmitted to The media service control unit 16 outputs the used page document name in the document file to be used to the input / output terminal 10. Further, the media service control unit 16 outputs the file name of the superimposed media (in this case, the used page document name in the document file) to the input / output terminal 9. Subsequently, the document editing device (for example, an editor of a workstation or a personal computer) 20 displays the document corresponding to the used page document name in the document file output from the media service control unit 16 via the input / output terminal 10 ( Step 34). On the other hand, the drawing / pointer editing device 18 performs superposition drawing and pointing processing on the display document corresponding to the used page document name in the document file, which is the media to be superimposed and is output from the media service control unit 16 via the input / output terminal 9. To prepare. With the above operation, preparation for creating presentation material is completed.

Next, a scenario creating operation for inserting a comment such as a memo at a desired position on the document displayed by the document editing device and inputting a pointer for pointing a designated position will be described.

The user writes and inputs a drawing and a pointer to be processed into a presentation document on the screen (step 35).

The drawing / pointer editing device 18 makes the first drawing element (the coordinate point from pen down to pen up and the time stamp at which the event occurs) from the first pen down to the first pen up immediately after the input start instruction. It is treated as a segment drawing element of and is recorded in the buffer in the drawing / pointer editing device together with the segment ID (step 36). Further, when the user draws another drawing on the same page, the drawing element is additionally recorded in the buffer as the second segment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing a form of drawing / pointer input on the above-mentioned document. FIG. 4 (a) is a window display seen from the user side, and actually FIG.
As shown in (b), a drawing / pointer is input on an invisible transparent window.

FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing that one line drawn and input is created by a sequence of n points and time information. Further, FIG. 6 two-dimensionally shows drawing point sequence time information. The point sequence v ₁ is input after t ₁ seconds, and the point sequence v ₂ is input after t ₂ seconds.

Similarly, a desired drawing composed of a plurality of drawing elements is performed, and the contents thereof are recorded in the buffer. When the drawing / pointer input end instruction is issued from the MMI unit 15 in the scenario editing unit 13, the drawing element in the buffer is drawn / drawn.
It is stored in the pointer file 19 (step 37).
At this time, the media service control unit 16 uses the document name of the used page in the document file, the presentation time of the page document in the document file, the drawing
The pointer file name, display time of each segment ID, and display magnification are transmitted and stored in the scenario file 14 (step 38). Next, when performing drawing / pointing on the second page, the scenario editing unit 13
From the MMI section 15 therein, the name of the document used in the document file used for scenario creation and the second page are specified, and the same operation as described above is performed. As described above, the desired number of pages is created in the scenario file 14 by superimposing the drawing / pointer on the used page document in the document file. As described above, finally, the first page to the last page are collectively stored as one scenario file. Table 1 shows the contents of the scenario file. In the scenario file, the document file name, document display page, document display magnification, document display time, drawing / pointer file name, and display start time of the drawing element corresponding to each segment ID are stored for each page constituting the scenario. ing.

[0030]

[Table 1] Secondly, reproduction of the scenario file created above will be described. MMI section 1 of scenario editing section 13
A list of created scenario files is displayed in step 5 (step 39). When the user selects a scenario file name to reproduce, a reproduction start preparation instruction for the scenario file is given (step 40). This designation content is transmitted to the media service control unit 16 via the main control unit 12. The media service control unit 16 outputs the used page document name in the document file of the first page stored in the scenario file 14 to the input / output terminal 10, and inputs the superimposed media file name and drawing / pointer file name. Output to the output terminal 9. The document editing device 20 includes an input / output terminal 10
Prepare the reproduction of the used page document name in the document file output via. At the same time, the drawing / pointer editing device 18
Preparation for superimposition drawing and pointing reproduction processing is performed on the document corresponding to the superimposed media file name (page name used in document file) output from the media service control unit 16 via the input / output terminal 9, and reproduction preparation is completed. To do.

Next, the MMI unit 1 of the scenario editing mechanism 13
From 5, the user gives an instruction to start reproduction of all pages. The start instruction is sent via the main control unit 12 to the media service control unit 1
It is transmitted to 6. The media service control unit 16 activates the timer monitoring unit 17. The document creation / editing control unit 25 in the media service control unit 16 refers to the document display time of the first page described in the scenario file 14. Further, the drawing / pointer edit control unit 24 in the media service control unit 16 refers to the presentation start time of the first segment of superimposed drawing / pointing described in the scenario file 14, and the timer monitor unit 17 displays the display start time. When it is notified, the segment ID is output to the input / output terminal 9. The drawing / pointer editing device 18
When the segment ID is notified from the media service control unit 16 via the input / output terminal 9, the drawing / pointer file 19 is referred to, and the point sequence of the corresponding segment (information consisting of a plurality of point sequence coordinates) is stored in the file. Draw on the document at the time intervals described in. Subsequently, the media service control unit 16 refers to the display start time of the second segment, and similarly to the above, when the display start time is reached,
The segment ID is output to the drawing / pointer editing device 18 via the input / output terminal 9. Drawing / Pointer Editing Device 18
In the same manner as above, the point sequence of the second segment is drawn on the document at the time intervals described in the file. As described above, all the drawing / pointer segments designated on the first page are drawn on the document (step 41). further,
Document creation / editing control unit 2 in the media service control unit 16
The timer monitoring unit 1 indicates the end of the document display time of the first page.
7, the used page document name in the document file of the second page is output to the document editing device 20 via the input / output terminal 10, and the document editing device 20 corresponds to the second page in the document file. Display the document you want. On the other hand, like the first page,
The drawing / pointing of the corresponding page is performed by the segment I from the media service control unit 16 via the input / output terminal 9.
By the notification of D, it is drawn on the document of the second page. In this way, the contents of all pages described in the scenario file are automatically reproduced.

Thirdly, an operation for correcting and editing the scenario once created in the above manner will be described.

First, a method of changing the display time of the page displayed in the presentation will be described. The user can move the MMI unit 1 to the scenario editing mechanism 22 in the scenario editing unit 13.
The page whose display time is to be changed is designated through 5. The scenario editing mechanism 22 refers to the presentation time of the designated page stored in the scenario file 14. The user selects whether the presentation time depends on additional data (depending on the time spent from the drawing / pointer start instruction to the end instruction) or changes it to the desired time. The presentation time to be changed is input to the mechanism 22 via the MMI unit 15. After the input, the updated time is stored in the scenario file 14 as the presentation time of the page.

Next, a method of changing the order of pages displayed in the presentation will be described.

The user specifies a page to be changed in order through the MMI unit 15 to the scenario editing mechanism 22 in the scenario editing unit 13. The scenario editing mechanism 22 refers to the designated page name stored in the scenario file 14. Further, the user selects and inputs a desired page name to the scenario editing mechanism 22 via the MMI unit 15 to change it. After the change,
The page name is stored in the scenario file 14.

Next, a changing method for presenting the drawing / pointer data given to each page at a timing according to the intention of the creator will be described. User is MM
The scenario editing mechanism 22 of the scenario editing unit 13 via I
From, specify the page to change the presentation timing of drawing / pointer data. The scenario editing mechanism 22 displays the presentation time of the page and the drawing / pointer segment presentation time stored in the scenario file 14 on the scenario page editing mechanism 23. The scenario page-by-page editing mechanism 23 displays the presentation time of the page and the drawing / pointer segment presentation time associated with the page in a bar chart format. By this drag operation of the bar chart, the presentation start timing of drawing / pointer data is changed.

In the above description, for the sake of brevity, only a document and a multimedia presentation by superimposed drawing / pointing on the document have been described, but the present invention is not limited to this. In FIG. 1 showing the configuration of the present embodiment, a video input / output device and an audio input / output device are arranged in parallel with the document editing device 20 and the drawing / pointer editing device 18, and each of them is provided with a media service control unit 16 and inter-module communication. It is needless to say that a multimedia presentation including video, audio, a document, superimposed drawing, and pointing can be performed by performing the above and describing the contents of the video and audio data in the scenario file 14.

As described above, in the present invention, the scenario editing unit 13 has means for notifying the document file name to the document editing device (editor) 20 via the media service control unit 16, so that the user can use it on a daily basis. It is possible to create a scenario by using a document editing device (editor such as a workstation editor or a personal computer) that is used. Further, the media service control unit 16
Has a unit for receiving the drawing / pointer segment ID from the drawing / pointer editing device 18, it is possible to detect the time when the pointer segment ID is received and record it in the scenario file. Therefore, the multimedia presentation control device 100 according to the present invention uses the document editing device desired by the user to dynamically draw the capture explanation on the display document, and to draw a specific portion on the display document. The pointing pointer can be input in a shape designated by the user at a designated time.

Further, the media service control unit 16 is
The document editing apparatus 20 can be notified of the document file name and the document display magnification stored in the scenario file while referring to the document presentation time recorded in the scenario file. Also, the media service control unit 16 notifies the drawing / pointer editing device 18 of the superimposed drawing file name, drawing / pointer file name, and each drawing / pointer segment ID recorded in the scenario file. You can Each drawing / pointer segment ID can be notified while referring to the segment ID presentation start time recorded in the scenario file.

Therefore, the multimedia presentation control apparatus 100 according to the present invention uses the document editing mechanism desired by the user to dynamically write the capture explanation on the display document and the superimposed drawing or the display document. It is possible to reproduce a scenario at a designated time with a shape designated by the user with a pointer indicating a specific portion of.

[0041]

As described above, according to the present invention, data for accessing a multimedia presentation control device capable of accessing a document editing device and a drawing / pointer editing device to search for a document and processing and editing the document, Since the data for processing and editing and the data for presentation are registered so that they can be corrected and executed, it is possible to use a document editing device that the user is familiar with, and it is possible to use any form of expression, and a particularly professional There is an effect that editing processing and presentation structure of multimedia presentation materials can be executed without requiring skill.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a multimedia presentation material editing system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a scenario editing unit 13 of FIG.

3 is a block diagram of a media service control unit 16 of FIG.

4A and 4B are diagrams showing a form in which drawing / pointer input is performed on a document display screen, FIG. 4A is a diagram showing a document display screen, and FIG.
FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the substance of a drawing / pointer display screen.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing that one drawn and inputted line is composed of a sequence of n points and time information.

FIG. 6 is a diagram two-dimensionally showing a relationship between a drawing point sequence and time information.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a multimedia presentation material construction method of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a method of structuring a presentation document in a conventional multimedia presentation structuring system.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating types of special effects for modifying a document in a conventional multimedia presentation composition system.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 to 10 terminals 11 service start MMI unit 12 main control unit 13 scenario editing unit 14 scenario file 15 MMI unit 16 media service control unit 17 timer monitoring unit 18 drawing / pointer editing device 19 drawing / pointer file 20 document editing device 21 document file 22 scenario editing mechanism 23 scenario page editing mechanism 24 drawing / pointer editing control unit 25 document creation / editing control unit 26 document display screen 27 drawing / pointer display screen 100 multimedia presentation material configuration control device

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A multimedia presentation material for creating and editing multimedia data including video, audio, documents, drawings, and pointers used for a presentation, modifying and maintaining it, and presenting it in a structure that can be presented in a predetermined order. A method of configuration, wherein specific data designating extraction of a presentation material as a base from an arbitrary material file, a step of registering and presenting changeable presentation conditions including a presentation magnification and a presentation time, and processing the presentation material Creating the data and processing conditions of the attached materials that can be changed and registering the reproduction data so that they can be changed. For each material presented by the registered data, the content of the processing at the time of presentation, its start time, and the presentation conditions. To set and store a scenario file that has been edited in a time series so that it can be played back. Multimedia presentation material configuration method having the extracted step to start the process the presented material in accordance with the file. 2. A multimedia presentation material for creating, editing, modifying, and arranging multimedia material including video, audio, document, drawing, and pointer to be used for presentation, and presenting it in a structure that can be presented in a predetermined order. A configuration method, wherein a document file name of a presented document, a display page of the document, a display magnification of the page, a display order, and a display time are changeably registered, and a drawing for superimposing for processing the presented document and Steps for creating pointer data and processing conditions and registering the reproduction data so that they can be changed, and for each presentation document presented by the registered data, drawing and pointer contents to be overlaid during presentation and the start time , And the step of setting and storing a scenario file in which the data of the presentation condition is reproducibly edited in a time series, and A method for composing multimedia presentation material, comprising the step of starting and extracting presentation material according to the scenario file and starting processing. 3. A multimedia presentation material for creating, editing, modifying, and arranging multimedia material including video, audio, document, drawing, and pointer to be used for presentation, and presenting it in a structure that can be presented in a predetermined order. A configuration system comprising: storage means, specific data for designating extraction of a base presentation material from an arbitrary material file, means for setting and registering presentation conditions including presentation magnification and presentation time in a changeable manner, A method for creating the data and processing conditions of the attached material that processes the presentation material and registering the reproduction data so that it can be changed, and for each presentation material presented by the registered data Set and store a scenario file in which the content, its start time, and presentation condition data are edited in a time series so that they can be played back. And a multimedia presentation material configuration system having means for starting and extracting presentation material according to the scenario file and starting processing. 4. A multimedia presentation material for creating and editing a multimedia material including video, audio, documents, drawings, and pointers used for a presentation, modifying and maintaining it, and presenting it in a structure that can be presented in a predetermined order. A configuration system, comprising: storage means, means for registering a document file name of a presented document, a display page of the document, a display magnification of the page, and a display time, and a drawing / pointer for superimposing the presented document. Of the data and processing conditions for registering the reproduction data so that they can be changed, and for each presentation document presented by the registered data, the contents of the drawing / pointer to be overlaid at the time of presentation and its start time, And means for setting and storing a scenario file in which the data of the presentation conditions are reproducibly edited in time series, and by starting, Multimedia presentation materials configuration system with a means to start the extraction process the presented documentation according to Na Rio file. 5. The multimedia presentation material configuration system according to claim 4, wherein the drawing and pointer file includes a drawing element for each segment and a segment number indicating each drawing element. 6. The document file, the drawing document file to be superimposed, and the drawing / pointer file are arbitrary external devices, and each is controlled via an interface device for editing. Multimedia presentation material composition system.