JPH09245464A - Electronic catalog medium and electronic catalog device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an electronic catalog medium and an electronic catalog apparatus which need no rearrangement for programs even when revised by handing the display of picture data and control elements in the screen display as parameters. SOLUTION: When an electronic catalog device is started by an operation button, an MPU 11 performs an initialization processing of an electronic mainframe 1. A control program of the mainframe is read out of a ROM 12 to be executed and an electronic catalog control program existing on a CD-ROM 10 is read into an ROM 13. Then, the control program on the RAM 13 is executed and an initialization of screen variables for assigning a screen structure data is performed to display a start screen as determined previously. The screen structure data on the CD-ROM 10 is read based on the screen variables to execute a screen initialization command.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to an electronic catalog medium and an electronic catalog device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As one form of sales method, a catalog attached with an order form is regularly sent to the consumer, and the order form in which the ordered product is filled is returned, and the product is also sold to the consumer. There is a mail order to ship to and. In such a mail order, the seller needs to create a catalog and deliver it to the consumer. Generally, the production cost and the delivery cost are included in the price of the product. Therefore, in order to reduce the cost per product in the catalog, it is necessary to list many products in one catalog.

On the other hand, the needs of consumers have been diversified and subdivided, and in order to meet this, many products must be published in one catalog. Therefore, not only the production cost increases, but also the number of pages of the catalog, that is, the weight, causes an increase in delivery cost.

The applicant of the present application has proposed an electronic catalog apparatus which uses a recording medium such as a CD-ROM as a catalog in order to solve the above-mentioned problems of conventional mail-order sales.
It is proposed in Japanese Patent No. 230502. Since this electronic catalog device uses an electronic recording medium as an information medium, it is effective in reducing the weight of the catalog, and since it is edited by using a computer, there is an advantage that editing and revision can be facilitated and the production cost can be reduced. .

[0005]

Since the catalog of the electronic catalog device has the same purpose of use regardless of what kind of product is handled, the operating procedure and the display method are approximately determined regardless of the contents. . Therefore, it is possible to easily revise the catalog by additionally recording or replacing display information such as product information in the CD-ROM which is the electronic catalog medium.

However, the background displayed on the screen, the design of the operation button and its position information, and the control to be performed by operating the operation button are incorporated in the program recorded in the CD-ROM, and these are changed. In this case, it is necessary to rework the program, which is an obstacle to shortening the production period and cost of the electronic catalog medium.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an electronic catalog medium and an electronic catalog device which do not require reworking of a program even when the edition is revised by treating these display and control elements as parameters. For the purpose of providing.

[0008]

An electronic catalog medium according to a first aspect of the present invention records information relating to a plurality of products, image data, and screen configuration data specifying one or more image data constituting a screen. It is characterized by

An electronic catalog device according to a second aspect of the present invention is an electronic catalog medium according to claim 1, means for reading screen configuration data from the electronic catalog medium, and image data specified by the read screen configuration data is the electronic catalog. Means for reading out from the medium and displaying it on the screen.

An electronic catalog medium according to a third aspect of the present invention is characterized in that control information relating to control of screen display is recorded.

An electronic catalog device according to a fourth aspect of the present invention comprises means for receiving an instruction related to screen display of an electronic catalog medium according to claim 3, means for reading the control information, and read control information and the received instruction. And means for controlling screen display.

FIG. 1 conceptually shows the recorded contents of the recording medium of the present invention. The material data is image data (still image and moving image), character data (text) and voice data (narration and narration) which form a screen. Music etc.). The still image has a background and operation buttons in addition to the product photo. The information related to the product is one or a combination of image data, character data, and voice. The screen configuration data describes what kind of material data is combined for each of a plurality of screens, and has display position information thereof in addition to the material data. Further, regarding the operation button, control information (command) when the operation button is operated is also included.

The electronic catalog device reads the screen configuration data from the electronic catalog medium having the above contents, displays the image data according to the contents, displays the character data, and outputs the voice data. Then, the operation button is subjected to display control according to the control information assigned to the operation button according to the instruction thereto. Since the screen configuration data of the electronic catalog medium is a set of parameters that configure the screen, the background, the design of the operation buttons, the position, the control method, and the like can be freely determined by modifying the parameters.

[0014]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings showing the embodiments. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the electronic catalog device of the present invention. In the figure, MPU11 is C
A control center of the electronic catalog device body 1 using a D-ROM player, a ROM 12 storing a control program of the electronic catalog device body 1, a RAM 13 as a work memory, a consumer identification number, and a CD-which is an electronic catalog medium. Non-volatile memory 14 for storing the identification number of ROM 10, etc., auxiliary storage controller 19 for controlling CD-ROM player 18 for loading CD-ROM 10 and playing it, interface of input device 3 using a mouse Input control device 15, an output control device 16 which is an interface of the printer 4, a communication control device 17 which controls transmission / reception with the modem 5, a video memory 20 which stores image information to be displayed on the monitor 2, and an output audio. Audio buffers 21 for storing information are connected to the buses, respectively. Thereby enabling the data transmission and reception of 互間. The electronic catalog device body 1 further includes a video memory 2
When the digital data in 0 is applied to the monitor 2, it is converted into analog data. When the digital data in the video D / A converter 22 and the audio buffer 21 is applied to the monitor 2, it is converted into analog data. D / A for voice
A converter 23 is provided.

CD-ROM 10 which is an electronic catalog medium
As described above, the screen configuration data and the material data are recorded in. A control program for reading and displaying these is recorded, and the MPU 11 reads these and writes them in the RAM 13 and performs the control as described later according to the reading.

The CD-ROM 10 has a display data table including the screen configuration data shown in FIG. 1 and an input processing table and a command table shown in FIG. The display data table is a text in which audio information and all display information on the display screen and parameters for reproducing and displaying them are associated and described. In this example, the name, type and material data of the display information as parameters, the display position if necessary, the selected display data for indicating that the display data is selected, and the processing to be executed when this is selected The item of the execution command of is set. The types are moving image, still image, text, voice, operation button, tree data, and list data.

As shown in FIG. 4, the tree data is a combination of material data to be displayed and reproduced in a comb-like structure, and is a data group composed of a single or a plurality of still images, moving images, and text. One page (one screen) is formed, and a plurality of pages are arranged in order. The tree data is designed to display the data of the page by the designated page number. For example, the data of one page of the catalog is set as one data group, the data of each page is defined in order, and a function of switching the display page by page according to a user's instruction is realized. With this tree data, a plurality of pages can be defined with one screen configuration data.

In the example of FIG. 4, it is composed of four groups: group 1, still image 1, group 2, and group 3. Group 1 is still image 2, group 11, group 1
The group 11 is composed of a plurality of still images and texts. The first page is group 1, but since group 1 has a group below it, still image 2 is the first page. Next, the second page is the group 11, and since this group 11 has no group below, the text 1 and the still images 3, 4, and 5 in the group 11 are recognized as the second page. Hereinafter, the association with the page number is defined in this way. In order to specify the page to be displayed, the previous page and the next page can be specified in addition to the method of directly specifying the page number.
Also, the display can be changed in group units such as the first page of the next group and the first page of the previous group. In the example of FIG. 4, when the still image 2 of the first page is displayed, the next page becomes the group 11 and the next group becomes the still image 1.

List data is usually called scroll display in which only one part is displayed when the data to be displayed does not fit in the display area and all the data can be displayed by changing the part to be displayed by a predetermined operation. It realizes a function. FIG. 5 shows an example of list data. The list data is composed of two definitions of a display area and display data. The display area designates a plurality of areas in which data should be displayed. In this example, four areas are defined as display areas. The display data is data to be displayed and is text in this example, but may be a still image or a moving image.

When displaying list data, it is necessary to specify the top data to be displayed. A display example of the list data is shown in FIG. For example, when the first display data is 1, the texts 1 to 4 of the display data are displayed in the display areas 1 to 4, respectively. When the top display data is 3, the texts 3 to 6 are displayed in the display areas 1 to 4, respectively. In other words, you have scrolled by two. By using this list data, the scroll function can be realized without programming.

The material data is a still image, a moving image, a text, or a voice. The display position indicates the position where the display data should be arranged by the value of xy coordinates on the screen with the origin at the upper left corner of the screen. The selection display data is display data for indicating that the display information of which the type is a button is selected by displaying the display information in place of the display information when the input information is selected by the input device 3. The selected display data is, for example, an image in which the color of the display data is reversed,
When you click the operation button on the input device, the color of the button changes.

The input processing table of FIG. 3 is a table of control commands relating to inputs from the user through the input device 3 such as a keyboard. In this example, when the input number 1 is input, a command called “Movie (start)” for starting the reproduction of the moving image material,
A command to stop the moving image material called “vie (stop)” and a command to display the next page of the tree data “Tree” are assigned to the input 3.

The command table shown in FIG. 3 includes a screen initialization command and a screen end command. These are respectively
A command for initializing the screen when the display corresponding to the screen configuration data is newly performed, and a command for ending the screen when moving to the display of another screen are set. In this example, a command for displaying the first page of the tree data Tree and a command for reproducing audio data named Audio are set as the screen initialization. At the end of the screen, a command to stop the audio data named Audio is set.

Next, the operation of the apparatus of the present invention will be described by taking the case of using the CD-ROM 10 in which the screen configuration data of FIG. 7 is recorded as an example. 8 and 9 are flowcharts thereof, and FIG. 10 is an example of screen display. In this example, the display data Back corresponds to the background, and the product information is tree data. The still images 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the operation buttons represent "previous page", "next page", "return", and "end", respectively. When the electronic catalog device of the present invention is activated, the MPU 11 initializes the electronic catalog device body 1, reads the control program for the electronic catalog device body 1 from the ROM 12, executes the control program, and executes the electronic program existing on the CD-ROM 10. The catalog control program is read into the RAM 13. Then, the electronic catalog control program on the RAM 13 is executed to perform initialization such as substituting initial values for screen variables designating screen configuration data (S1), and display a predetermined start screen as a screen (S2). . Then, the screen configuration data existing on the CD-ROM 10 is read based on the screen variable (S3), and the screen initialization command is executed (S4).

Data (s) of the screen initialization command of FIG.
elect, 1) indicates that the first page of the display information Data whose type is tree data is displayed.
The relation (start) indicates that the reproduction of the voice information Narration whose type is voice is started, and the display and the reproduction are performed accordingly.

Next, the material data is read from the CD-ROM 10 according to the contents of the display data table, and these are read in FIG.
It is displayed as 0 (S5) and is in a state of waiting for input. When the operation button is clicked by the input device 3 (S6), the selection display data is displayed, that is, the color is changed (S7).

FIG. 10 is a flow chart of a subroutine of the selection display processing. It is checked whether or not the input is an operation button click (S71), and if so, the presence or absence of the selection display data is checked (S72). Is changed to this (S73). If not present (in the case of System End), the display attribute is changed such as lowering the display brightness (S74). Next, it is checked whether or not the operation button has a command (S8), and if there is a command, the command processing is performed (S8).
9).

In Previous, the previous page of Data is displayed, in Next, the next page of Data is displayed, in Return, the screen is changed to screen 1, and in End, the system is specified to be terminated. Retur
When the screen change is instructed like n (S10),
A screen end command is executed (S11). In this example, Narration is stopped. After that, the current screen is changed (S12), and the process returns to reading the screen configuration data.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention, not only the revision by changing the material data but also the constitution of the display screen can be easily changed only by rewriting the screen constitution data without reworking the program, and a large revision can be made. It can be done easily in a short time. Further, since the information for screen control is also recorded as data, the change does not require reworking of the program. As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily revise the electronic catalog in a short time, which is effective in reducing the cost and the manufacturing time.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of recorded contents of an electronic catalog medium according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an electronic catalog device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of recorded contents of an electronic catalog medium according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of tree data.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of list data.

FIG. 6 is a display example of list data.

FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram of recorded contents of an electronic catalog medium according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the electronic catalog device of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the electronic catalog device of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Electronic Catalog Device Main Body 2 Monitor 3 Input Device 10 CD-ROM 11 MPU 18 CD-ROM Playback Device

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An electronic catalog medium in which information on a plurality of products, image data, and screen configuration data for specifying one or a plurality of image data configuring a screen are recorded. 2. The electronic catalog medium according to claim 1, means for reading screen configuration data from the electronic catalog medium, and image data specified by the read screen configuration data is read from the electronic catalog medium and displayed on the screen. An electronic catalog device comprising: 3. The electronic catalog medium according to claim 1, wherein control information relating to screen display control is recorded. 4. A means for receiving an instruction related to screen display of an electronic catalog medium according to claim 3, a means for reading out the control information, and a means for controlling screen display by the read control information and the received instruction. An electronic catalog device comprising: