JPH09120404A - Data retrieval device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To preserve the answer results of users and to rate these answer results in order to display the correction of errors by providing a result totalization means which totalizes the number of questions of tests and quizzes and the number of correct answers of users and a point display means which shows the totalization result of the result totalization means. SOLUTION: An attached disk identification means 25 checks whether a read disk is an attached disk that contains the data on specific functions such as a test function, a quiz function, etc. A start address acquisition means 37 acquires the start address of a test, etc., held by a start address holding means 32. Then the data on the question that is started by a user are read. A result totalization means 38 calculates and totalizes the number of questions and the number of answers based on the number of questions stored in a result storage means 35 and displayed by the user, i.e., the numbers of answered and skipped unanswered questions and the number of correct answers. Furthermore, the totalization results, i.e., the number of questions shown by the user and the number of correct answers are additionally shown on a point display means 39 as long as a point display flag is kept in an ON state.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data retrieving apparatus for retrieving and reproducing program data stored in a storage medium such as a CD-ROM.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a CD-ROM search device using a CD-ROM such as an electronic book as a recording medium and a data search device using various recording media have been used in place of a dictionary which is a paper medium.

Below, regarding the conventional data retrieval apparatus,
In particular, here, regarding the CD-ROM retrieval device, the CD-R
The flow from reading the data from the OM to displaying the data will be described.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram of a conventional CD-ROM retrieval device. In the figure, 41 is a CD-ROM, 4
2 is a CD-ROM reading device for reading data from a CD-ROM, 43 is a reading memory for storing the data read in 41, 44 is a read text and image display means for requesting display of read text and image data, and 45 is A liquid crystal display device as a display means.

First, the CD-ROM reading device 42 reads fixed length data from the CD-ROM 41 to the reading memory 43. The data structure of this raw data is J, which is the display character for Japanese domestic discs.
These are the IS code, the external character code, and the identifier that means the character size and various functions, and, in the case of the overseas version disc, the character code, the external character code, and the identifier that means the various functions defined by ISO. To display, data of one character or one designated identifier is acquired from raw data. The order of acquisition is from the lowest address to the highest address in the read memory 43, and when all the read fixed-length data has been acquired and processed, the next data is continuously read from the CD-ROM 41 to the read memory 43. It will be read.

[0006] Next obtained 1 data (1 character or 1
(Designated identifier) is displayed or designated identifier processing is performed. The flow of the process of displaying the text, which is the final purpose, from the display of documents will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 14 is a flow chart of displaying a document and displaying a text as target data. S51
Then, lead Volume Discriptor. Volume Discript
The “or” is a part of the data structure defined by ISO9660, and is a part recording various kinds of information regarding the CD-ROM. In S52, the data for displaying the document list is read from the CD-ROM and the document list is displayed. S5
In step 3, the user waits for a button related to document selection. In S54, it is determined whether or not the button has been pressed. If it is pressed, the process returns to S55, and if not, the process returns to S53 again. In S55, the data for displaying the search method list for the document selected by the user is C
Read from the D-ROM and display a list of search methods. S
At 56, the user waits for the button regarding the selection of the search method. In S57, it is determined whether or not the button has been pressed. If it is pressed, the process returns to S58, and if not, the process returns to S56 again. In S58, a search is performed by an operation according to each search method. For example, in the case of menu search, desired contents are selected one after another from the menu (table of contents or item) displayed on the screen. In step S59, the user waits for the button to be pressed. In S60, it is determined whether the button has been pressed. If pressed, S6
1; if not, the process returns to S59 again. S61
Finally, the desired text data is read from the CD-ROM and the contents are displayed.

[0008]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional configuration, only the data can be read and displayed on the screen, and the contents selected by the user cannot be stored. Therefore, it was not possible to aggregate the user's answers such as the test and the quiz function and score them.

The present invention solves the above problems,
Add to remember what you could only see before. By doing this, it is possible to save the user's answer results, to score them, to realize the test and quiz format functions that display the correctness of each question, and to provide a data search device with new operability. I am trying.

[0010]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention described in claim 1 has an input means having a character input section and a selection section, and a display for displaying an input character string, text or the like. Means, a storage medium storing a plurality of program data, a reading means for reading the data stored in the storage medium, a storage medium identifying means for identifying whether or not the storage medium has a specific function, Data identification means for identifying whether or not the read program data of the plurality of program data is data having a specific function, and an address and an item of data necessary for realizing the specific function are added. When the data address and display character string acquisition means for acquiring the character string and the program data having the specific function are selected, the device mode is set to the specific function mode. Mode identifying means for identifying whether or not it is present, start address storing means for storing an address for starting the reproduction of the selected program data, and a number for storing the number selected by the user according to the contents displayed along with the reproduction of the program data. Storage means, result determination means for determining control data corresponding to the selected number, result storage means for storing the determination result, end screen recognition means for determining whether or not the program has ended, and saved start address A start address obtaining means for reading out, a result totaling means for totaling the numbers stored by the number storage means and the judgment results stored in the result storage means, and a display means for displaying the totalized results. Characterize.

According to the present invention, it is possible to realize a test or quiz-type function for storing the answer result of the user, scoring it, and displaying the correctness of each question.

[0012]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram of a data search device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the present embodiment, a CD-RO using a CD-ROM as a storage medium
The description will be given based on the M search device.

In FIG. 1, 1 is a keyboard as an input means, 2 is a liquid crystal display device (hereinafter abbreviated as LCD) as a display device for displaying input character strings, sentences, etc., 3 is L
LCD control device for controlling CD2, 4 central processing unit, 5 random access memory (hereinafter abbreviated as RAM), 6 read only memory (hereinafter abbreviated as ROM), and 7 a recording medium as a large-capacity database Is a compact disc drive (hereinafter simply referred to as CD drive), and 9 is a compact disc control device for controlling the CD drive.

With the above hardware configuration, a configuration for implementing the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram in this embodiment. In FIG. 2, 21 is a CD-ROM, 22 is a CD-ROM reading device as data reading means, and 23
Is a read memory for storing the data read by the CD-ROM reading device 22, 24 is a memory for storing information of various kinds selected by the user, and 25 is a mounted CD.
-Attached disk identifying means as a storage medium identifying means for determining whether the ROM 21 is a disk having a specific function such as a test function or a quiz function that can be realized in combination with a data search device, and 26 is a CD -ROM2
The read text and image display means for requesting the display of the text and the image data read from the reference numeral 1 and 27 are liquid crystal display devices such as LCDs. Reference numeral 28 is a document identification means as data identification means for determining whether or not a program having a specific function such as a test function or a quiz function is selected, 2
Reference numeral 9 denotes a data address and display character string acquisition means for acquiring an address of data necessary for realizing a specific function such as a test or quiz and a character string to be additionally displayed as an item for performing a test or a quiz, and 30 A mode identifying means for identifying whether or not a particular function item such as a test or a quiz is selected and is currently in the specific mode, and 31 is a body for determining whether or not the text data of the program being reproduced is displayed on the display means. A display determination means, 32 is a start address storage means for storing an address to start text data such as a test or quiz, and 33 is a number storage means for storing a button number corresponding to an answer selected by the user during the reproduction of the test or quiz program. Button storage means as
Is a result judging means for judging the meaning of the image data from the image data provided corresponding to the pressed button, 35 is a result storing means for storing the judged result, and 36 is End screen recognition means for judging whether or not the end screen of the test or quiz is reached, 37 is a start address acquisition means for acquiring the stored start address,
38 is a result totaling means for totaling the number of questions in the test or quiz and the number of correct answers in the test or quiz that the user has solved from the button number stored in the push button storage means 33 and the judgment result stored in the result storage means 35; Is a score display means display for displaying the results from the totaled results. In this embodiment, the score display means 39 is also used as the LCD 2.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flow charts of FIGS. 3 to 6 and the test program reproduction screen of the actual data retrieval apparatus shown in FIGS. 3 to 6 are schematic flow charts for carrying out the specific function in the present embodiment. First, when the search is started with the CD-ROM 7 mounted on the data retrieval device, the Volume Descriptor stored in the CD-ROM 7 is read by the CD-ROM reading device 22 in S31.
Be led by Here, the Volume Descriptor is a part of the data structure defined by ISO9660 and is a CD.
-It is a part that records various kinds of information regarding the ROM. The attached disc identifying means 25 checks whether or not the disc currently read in S32 is an attached disc having data of a specific function such as a test function or a quiz function.

Whether or not the disc is an attached disc is determined by Vo
This is done by checking whether the Volume Identifier area in the lume Discriptor is the same as the content that is the name of the attached disk beforehand. If it is an attached disc, the process proceeds to S33, and if it is not an attached disc, the process proceeds to S34.

In step S33, the attached disc identification flag indicating that the disc currently set is the attached disc, that is, the disc having the program data of the test function and the quiz function is turned on. In S34, the document list screen, which is the first display screen, is displayed.

In step S35, the user waits for the button related to document selection. In S36, it is determined whether or not the button has been pressed. If it is pressed, the process returns to S37, and if not, the process returns to S35 again. Specifically, it is determined whether or not a key is pressed in a processing routine started by the interval timer issued from the central processing unit 4.

At S37, the attached disk identification flag is turned on.
To see if. If it is ON, S3
8. If OFF, go to S40. In S38,
The document identifying means 28 checks whether or not the program has a specific function such as a test function or a quiz function. The determination is made by the user selecting a button number displayed on the screen and whether or not the file name of the program corresponding to the button number matches the one that the user has in advance. If the program has the data of the specific function, the process proceeds to S39, and if not, the process proceeds to S40. S39
Then, the specific function enable flag indicating that the program having the specific function data is selected is turned on.

Next, in S40, a search method list screen is displayed as shown in FIG. In S41, the user waits for the button related to the selection of the search method (see FIG. 7).
(A)). In S42, it is determined whether the button has been pressed. If it is pressed, the process returns to S43, and if not, the process returns to S41 again. In S43, it is checked whether the selected search method is a menu search, that is, a search method for displaying data of a specific function such as a test function or a quiz function. If it is a menu search, proceed to S45, and if it is not a menu search, proceed to S44.

In S44, each search is executed for a search method other than the menu search, and the process proceeds to S53. S45
Check whether the quiz function enable flag is ON. If it is ON, proceed to S46, and if it is OFF, proceed to S47. In S46, the start address of the quiz menu stored in the start address holding means 32 is acquired by the start address acquisition means 37. Then, the character string is additionally displayed at the end of the menu item by the quiz data address and display character string acquisition means 29, and at the same time, a selection button is added to this item so that the user can select it (FIG. 7B).

In S48, it is determined whether the added selection button has been pressed. If so, go to S49,
If not pressed, the process returns to S47 again. In S49, it is checked whether the quiz function enable flag is ON. If it is ON, go to S50, and if it is OFF, S
Proceed to 53. In S50, it is checked whether or not the hierarchy of the displayed menu screen is the first hierarchy. That is, it is checked whether or not it is a screen displaying the added menu item (FIGS. 7C and 8A). If it is the first layer, the process proceeds to S51, and if it is other than the first layer, the process proceeds to S53.

In S51, the pressed button number is the added menu item in the displayed menu screen, that is, the pressed button number is the maximum button number in the displayed menu screen. Find out if If it is the maximum button number, the process proceeds to S52, and if not, the process proceeds to S53. In S52, the selected quiz data is the test or quiz data, and the quiz execution flag is turned on to identify that the test or quiz is about to start.

In S53, the next screen data for the button pressed by the text display determination means 31 is not the menu data (FIGS. 8B and 8C) but the text data (FIG. 9).
To see if. This is equivalent to checking whether the next screen is data for a specific test or quiz question. It is from this point that the actual quiz starts. This corresponds to the screen display shown in FIG.

If the text data, the process proceeds to S54, and if not, the process proceeds to S55. In S54, the address of the body data to be displayed first is stored in the start address holding means 32. That is, save the address of the question data where the user begins the test or quiz answer. This is used to return to the question where the user started answering the test or quiz when the user wanted to see the question again. In other words, review the answer again before scoring the result of the user's answer, whether the current answer is OK, re-enter another answer, answer the question that was not answered It is possible to do so that the user can then return to the question that started the test or quiz answer.

In S55, the text data in question is displayed as shown in FIG. 9 (a). At this time, whether or not the answer is entered is useful for the user,
If input, it is information as to what number was answered.
Also, after scoring the answers, it is naturally necessary to have information as to whether the answers are correct or incorrect. This content is also displayed in this step.

In step S56, the user waits for the answer button to the problem to be pressed. In S57, it is determined whether or not the button has been pressed. If it is pressed, the process returns to S58, and if not, the process returns to S56 again. In S58, it is checked whether the quiz execution flag is ON. If ON
If so, proceed to S59, and if OFF, proceed to S63.

In step S59, the button number pressed by the user is stored in the pressed button storage means 33. The pointer that saves the answer when you start answering the quiz is the beginning of the entire area that is the saving area in advance. In S60, the next screen data corresponding to the pressed button is read. The next data in question is programmed as a graphic screen. The image name uniquely assigned to each graphic screen is used in the next step. 9 (b) to (c),
This is shown on the screen of FIG.

At S61, the correct answer / incorrect answer / from the screen name given to the graphic screen by the result judging means 34
Judge the three types of unanswered questions by skipping questions. If the image name is, for example, “image 1”, it is determined that the answer is unanswered by the question skip, and if the name is “image 2”, the answer is correct. In S62, the determined result is converted into a numerical value and stored in the area next to the area in which the button number of the storage push button storage means 33 is stored. After this, the pointer to the area storing the answer or the unanswered answer / correct answer / incorrect answer of the user is incremented by 1 and the next question is saved. That is, the pointer is sequentially updated each time a new problem to be solved is displayed.

In step S63, a button for displaying the next problem existing in the graphic is pressed artificially. This makes it automatically displayed as if moving to the next problem. In S64, the contents of the next screen are displayed. This screen is usually a screen in which the problem to be solved next is described (FIGS. 10B and 10C). The screen normally displayed in this step is text data, but it may be a graphic screen.

In S65, it is checked whether the test or quiz execution flag is ON. If ON, S
66, and if OFF, proceed to S69. In S66, it is checked whether the displayed screen is a test or quiz end screen (FIG. 11). Normally, the screen displayed in S64 is a quiz question, but if all the questions are displayed, the content indicating the end of the test or quiz is displayed (FIG. 12 (b)). This screen is a graphic screen, and the end of the test or the quiz is judged from the image name attached to the graphic screen as in the method performed in S61.

If the image name is, for example, "image 4", it is determined that the test or the quiz is finished. If it is an end screen such as a quiz, the process proceeds to S67, and if not, the process proceeds to S69. In S67, the end screen identification flag is turned on. By turning on this identification, the function to be executed when the selection buttons 1 (review) and 2 (score display) on this screen are pressed is determined.

In step S68, the user waits for the user to press the button related to the quiz end screen. In S69, it is determined whether the button has been pressed. If it is pressed, S70
If not, the process returns to S68 again. In S70,
It is checked whether the end screen identification flag is ON. If it is ON, the process proceeds to S71, and if it is OFF, the process proceeds to S77.

In step S71, it is checked whether the pressed button is 1. This step is a test or quiz end screen because this step is executed after checking that the end screen identification flag is ON in S70. Pressing the 1st button on the screen means reviewing the user's answer. If the pressed button is 1, S72
If not 1, proceed to S74.

In S72, the start address of the test or quiz stored in the start address holding means 32 in S54 is acquired by the start address acquiring means 37. By getting this address, the problem initiated by the user can be displayed. In S73, the data of the problem started by the user is read. In S74, it is checked whether the pressed button is 2. This step is a test or quiz end screen because this step is executed after checking that the end screen identification flag is ON in S70. Pressing the No. 2 button on the screen means that all the answers and reviews of the quiz question are completed, and the ability of the user, that is, the number of correct answers according to the answer result is displayed (FIG. 12 (c)).

If the pressed button is 2, S75
If not 2, proceed to S77. In S75, the result totaling unit 38 calculates and totals from the number of questions displayed by the user stored in the result storage unit 35, that is, the number of unanswered questions due to answers and skips, and the number of correct answers. S76
Then, the score display flag is turned on. In S77, the problem screen started by the user or the screen next to the pressed second button is displayed. In S78, it is checked whether or not the score display flag is ON. The fact that the score display flag is ON means that the content of the displayed screen is the score, that is, the number of questions displayed by the user and the content that is supposed to display the number of correct answers. Therefore, the judgment is to display the score.

If the score display flag is ON, S79
If it is OFF, the series of processing is ended. In S79,
The result of totaling in S75, that is, the number of questions displayed by the user and the number of correct answers among them are additionally displayed on the point display means 39 (FIG. 12 (c)). In addition, to display the problem started by the user again from this screen, in the same way as S72,
This is possible by acquiring the start address of the test or quiz saved in S54.

Further, since it is after displaying the score already,
Mark of correct / incorrect answer when each question is displayed, eg "
It is also possible to display a "○" or "×". When displaying a question initiated by the user, a pointer to the area that stores the value of the user's answer or unanswered / correct / wrong answers is displayed. This is because it is possible to recognize the correctness of the problem by returning it to the beginning.

By the method described above, it is possible to save the answer result, perform scoring, and implement a test or a quiz-type function for displaying the correctness of each question.

[0042]

As is apparent from the above description, the present invention determines whether the disc has a test or a quiz function, which can be realized in combination with a data retrieval device, and determines whether or not the disc has a quiz function. When the selected program is selected, the results are displayed from the result aggregation means and the aggregated results, according to the content of the user's answer as the program is played back. By adding a means to display the score, it is possible to add a memorization to what could only be displayed so far, save the answer result of the user, then score it and test it to display the correctness of each question. This has the effect of realizing a quiz-type function and realizing a data search device with new operability.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram of a data search device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a schematic flowchart for implementing a specific function according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart for implementing a specific function according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a schematic flowchart for implementing a specific function according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a schematic flowchart when a specific function according to the present embodiment is implemented.

FIG. 7 is a screen diagram of a display unit when a test function is reproduced in the present embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a screen diagram of a display unit when a test function is reproduced in the present embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a screen view of a display unit when a test function is reproduced in the present embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a screen view of a display unit when a test function is reproduced in the present embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a screen diagram of a display unit when a test function is reproduced in the present embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a screen view of a display unit when a test function is reproduced in the present embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram of a conventional CD-ROM search device.

FIG. 14 is a schematic flowchart of conventional CD-ROM reading.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Keyboard 2 LCD 3 LCD Control Device 4 Central Processing Unit 5 RAM 6 ROM 7 CD-ROM 8 CD Drive 9 CD Control Device 21 CD-ROM 22 CD-ROM Read Device 23 Read Memory 24 Storage Memory 25 Attached Disc Identification Means 26 read text and image display means 28 document identification means 29 data address and display character string acquisition means 30 mode identification means 31 text display determination means 32 start address storage means 33 push button storage means 34 result determination means 35 result storage means 36 end screen Recognition means 37 Start address acquisition means 38 Result aggregation means 39 Score display means

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An input means, a display means for displaying an input character string, a sentence, etc., a storage medium for storing a plurality of program data, a reading means for reading out the data stored in the storage medium, Storage medium identifying means for identifying whether the storage medium is a medium having a specific function, and identifying whether the read program data of the plurality of program data is data having a specific function. Data identifying means, a data address necessary to realize the specific function and a data address and display character string acquiring means for acquiring a character string for additionally displaying the specific function as an item, and the specific function Mode identifying means for identifying whether or not the device mode is the specific function reproduction mode when program data having is selected,
Start address storage means for storing an address for starting reproduction of the selected program data, number storage means for storing a number selected by the user according to the contents displayed along with the reproduction of the program data, and the selected number And a result judging means for judging the control data corresponding to
A result storage unit that stores the determination result, an end screen recognition unit that determines whether or not the program has ended, a start address acquisition unit that reads out the stored start address, and a number stored by the number storage unit. A data search device comprising: a result totaling unit that totals the judgment results stored in the result storage unit; and a display unit that displays the totaled result. 2. The storage medium is a compact disc (hereinafter referred to as a CD-ROM).
Data retrieval device as described. 3. The data search according to claim 1, wherein the program data having the specific function has a test mode consisting of questions and answer choices, and an explanation mode consisting of questions, correct answers and explanations. apparatus. 4. The displayed answer choices are selected by the button number of the input means corresponding to the number displayed on the display means, and the program data is image data corresponding to each selected button number. And the control data peculiar to each image data, and the result judging means judges from the control data whether the answer is correct, incorrect, or no answer, and the result aggregating means collects the correct answer, incorrect answer, and no answer. The data retrieving apparatus according to claim 3, wherein