JPH10162015A - Graphic display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize easy selection without the change of graphic data and to improve the operability of advanced technology study by simultaneously displaying plural pieces of graphic data in a graphic display device reading and displaying plural pieces of accumulated graphic data. SOLUTION: In the device, a retrieval system 10 provided with an external storage device 11, a display device 12 and an input device 13 is provided with a document data accumulation part 15 accumulating document data which is read from the external storage device 11, a drawing reduction part 18 reducing the display size of graphic data in accordance with input from the input device 13 and a display control part 19 displaying graphic data received from the document data accumulation part 15 and the drawing reduction part 18 on the display device 12. The list of plural pieces of graphic data reduced by the drawing reduction part 18 is displayed. When one of graphic data on a screen is selected by the crick of a mouse in the input device 13, pertinent graphic data is displayed on the display device 12 in the regular display size.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a graphic display device for reading out and displaying a plurality of graphic data to be stored, and more specifically, displaying a graphic data so that any one of the plurality of graphic data can be easily selected. The present invention relates to an apparatus mounted on an apparatus for searching and displaying document data including data, so that graphic data representing the contents of the document data can be easily selected and displayed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, graphic data is stored in a storage medium such as a built-in memory, a hard disk, a magneto-optical disk, a CD-ROM (compact disk read only memory), read out at the time of use, and displayed on display means. And recording on paper. The graphic data is selected and read out from the added title or the like, and when a plurality of graphic data are included in one file, they are sequentially displayed and selected for use.

As this type of graphic display device, for example,
A figure of a drawing which is installed in a system for searching for a patent publication or the like stored in a large-capacity storage medium such as a CD-ROM and conducting a prior art search, and stored together with its bibliographic items and specifications. Some have data displayed. This graphic display device displays graphic data included in document data of a patent publication in a designated area on one screen as shown in FIG.
, So that they can be referred to together with the specification and the like, so that the prior art search can be easily performed.

[0004]

However, in such a conventional graphic display device, graphic data for which a display command has been issued is sequentially displayed on the display means in accordance with the order of drawing numbers and the like. If suitable graphic data is read out later, the same operation must be repeated until it is displayed, and if a suitable one is selected from a plurality, the same operation must be repeated again after selection. is there. For example, when conducting a prior art search by searching a patent publication or the like, the drawing that is most suitable for understanding the technical contents described in the patent publication is not necessarily FIG. May be intended for the main part. For this reason, it takes time to select an object to be used from a plurality of graphic data, and workability is poor.
In particular, there is a problem that a published patent publication useful for prior art search is not effectively used.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to improve the workability by simultaneously displaying a plurality of graphic data so that the graphic data can be selected without being sequentially displayed.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a graphic data storage means, a graphic data display means, and an input operation means, wherein the graphic data storage means stores the data. A graphic display device for reading graphic data in accordance with a display command input from an input operation means and displaying the graphic data on a graphic data display means, a reduction processing means for reducing a display size of the graphic data, and a graphic data storage means for sequentially storing graphic data. Display control means for displaying a plurality of graphic data read out and reduced by the reduction processing means on the graphic data display means in a list.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the graphic data to be displayed on the graphic data display means in accordance with the display command input from the input operation means is sequentially read from the graphic data storage means and the display size is reduced by the reduction processing means. After the reduction processing, the display control means displays a list on the graphic data display means. Therefore, the graphic data to be displayed on the graphic data display means are simultaneously displayed as a list, and can be arbitrarily selected from the list.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first aspect, any one of a list of graphic data displayed on the graphic data display means is displayed on a screen of the graphic data display means. Wherein the graphic control means causes the graphic data display means to display the corresponding graphic data at a normal display size based on the selection of the graphic data by the graphic data selection means. It is.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, arbitrary graphic data can be selected from the graphic data listed on the graphic data display means on the screen by the graphic data selection means, and the selected graphic data can be selected. The graphic data is displayed on the graphic data display means in a normal display size by the display control means. Therefore, without performing an operation such as inputting the drawing number or the like to select the graphic data from the input operation means, directly on the screen of the graphic data display means.
By simply selecting arbitrary graphic data, the image can be displayed in a normal display size.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first or second aspect, the reduction processing unit is configured to be capable of changing a reduction ratio of a display size of the graphic data. Is characterized in that the reduction ratio of the display size of the graphic data is changed according to the input from the input operation means. According to the third aspect of the invention, the reduction processing means for reducing the graphic data displayed on the graphic data display means can change the reduction ratio of the display size in accordance with the input from the input operation means. So, for example,
The reduction rate of the display size can be changed, for example, when the number of graphic data is large, the reduction rate is high, and when the figure is fine, the reduction rate is low.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of any of the first to third aspects, the graphic data storage means is mounted on a system for searching for document data relating to a published patent application. Is characterized in that document data including graphic data is stored, and the graphic data display means displays the document data including graphic data. According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, for example, graphic data of a drawing included in the document data of a published patent application is stored as part of the document data in the graphic data storage means. The document data is displayed on the display means together with the document data, and is displayed in a list according to the input from the input operation means. Therefore, when searching a published patent publication or the like for a prior art search, a list of drawings attached to the application is displayed along with the specification, etc., and graphic data suitable for understanding the contents should be selected from the list. Can be.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 6 show a first embodiment of the graphic display device according to the present invention.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an apparatus on which an embodiment is mounted, and illustrates an example applied to a system for searching a patent publication. First, the configuration will be described.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 10 denotes a search system main body disclosed in a patent publication, to which an external storage device 11, a display device 12, and an input device 13 are connected. The external storage device 11 stores the document data of a plurality of published patent publications for each application on a bibliographic basis (such as the title of the invention and the filing date) and a specification (such as the claims and the detailed description of the invention). A CD-ROM to be recorded and stored including drawings together with the abstract is set, and the document data of the patent publication is read from the CD-ROM in accordance with a read command and output to the retrieval system main unit 10. The display device 12 is a CRT
(Cathode RayTube) and LCD (Liquid Crystal Displa)
y), etc., and the display system 1
The data output from 0 is displayed on the screen. The input device 13 includes a keyboard and a mouse for performing input operations such as a read command for reading document data of a patent publication from the external storage device 11 and a search formula (IPC, keyword, application date, etc.) for searching for the corresponding patent publication. And so on.
That is, the display device 12 constitutes graphic data display means, the input device 13 constitutes input operation means, and in this embodiment, a document data storage unit 15 described later constitutes graphic data storage means. May be used as it is as a document data storage unit. Although the external storage device 11, the display device 12, and the input device 13 are externally attached in the present embodiment, they may be built in the search system main body 10 or may be assembled. Not even. Note that the graphic data of the drawing is written and stored as an image file in TIFF format in a CD-ROM.

The search system body 10 includes a document data storage unit.
15, a document data analysis unit 16, a tree creation unit 17, a drawing reduction unit 18, and a display control unit 19, and are stored in advance in a built-in internal memory based on an input signal from the input device 13. In accordance with the control program, the external devices 11 and 12 and the respective units 15 to 19 are collectively controlled, and the document data of the patent publication retrieved from the CD-ROM set in the external storage device 11 is displayed on the display device 12. Although not shown, each of the units 15 to 19 constituting the search system main body 10 includes a built-in CPU, a memory, an i / f circuit, and the like, and is illustrated based on the processing of document data. However, it is not limited as hardware.

The document data storage section 15 constitutes a figure data storage means, and stores the document data of the patent publication from the external storage device 11 in accordance with the search formula input from the input device 13 (the search formula is not specified). (Sometimes in order) Read, store and accumulate. The document data analysis unit 16 includes a document data storage unit
While analyzing the document data accumulated in 15 and discriminating the type of document data for each item such as bibliographic items of the published patent publication, specification, abstract, drawing, etc., and sending it to the display control unit 19,
The tree creation unit 17 sends out some of the bibliographic items, as well as the major items of the specification, and the minor items (claims and claims) contained therein, and the major items such as abstracts and drawings. The graphic data of the drawing is transmitted to the reduction section 18 in accordance with the command input from the input device 13.

The tree creating unit 17 generates so-called tree display data for displaying a part or items of the bibliographic items received from the document data analyzing unit 16 on the display 12a of the display device 12 for each individual patent publication. It is created and sent to the display control unit 19. The drawing reduction unit 18 is configured to reduce the display size of the graphic data of the drawing received from the document data analysis unit 16 by constituting a reduction processing unit, and to display the graphic data on the upper part of the display 12a shown in FIG. When the "drawing list" shown in FIG. 4 (b) is selected by scrolling the drawing column, a plurality of drawings can be displayed on the display 12a of the display device 12, as shown in FIG. , The graphic data of the drawing F1 of the normal display size of height B / width A is reduced at a fixed reduction ratio (the ratio of height / width is kept as it is) and the height b /
After converting the figure data of the drawing F2 of the display size of width a into
It is sent to the display control unit 19.

The display controller 19 expands the received data into a bitmap in a memory (not shown) and displays the data on a display 12a of the display device 12.
If not instructed from the tree 13, a tree in which the publication numbers of the bibliographic items and the names of the inventions received from the tree creating unit 17 are arranged in the order of the publication numbers in accordance with the basic format shown in FIG. Display data display
Displayed in the upper left area of the screen of 12a, the document data analysis unit
The document data from 16 includes, for example, the bibliographic items of the disclosed patent publication which are highlighted in the tree display in the upper right area, the specification in the lower right area, and the drawing in the lower left area. Display from data. The items of the document data to be displayed on the display 12a of the display device 12 by the display control unit 19, the number of the items, the area of the region, and the like are determined by the input device.
It can be changed by input operation from 13 and, for example, the content of the abstract can be added and displayed as an item. The items created by the tree creation unit 17 are further subdivided into specifications, and sub-items referred to in prior art searches, such as claims of claims included in the specifications and detailed descriptions of the invention, are included. The type and number of items included in the specification, the number of drawings, and the like may be grasped in advance by displaying a lower layer in response to a click on a large item by the mouse of the input device 13. By clicking on, the part may be displayed first in an area on the screen of the display 12a.

The display control unit 19 is secured to display a drawing when it receives graphic data whose display size has been reduced by the drawing reduction unit 18 at a constant reduction rate in accordance with an input from the input device 13. The reduced graphic data is sequentially pasted to the memory area in which the graphic data is displayed, and a plurality of graphic data are simultaneously displayed (displayed in a list) on the display 12a. Then, the display control unit 19 is operated when the drawing of the graphic data on the screen of the display 12a is directly clicked with the mouse of the input device 13, or when the drawing column at the top of the display 12a shown in FIG. When "Figure n" or "Figure 1" shown in FIG. 4B is selected by scrolling, the corresponding graphic data is read from the document data storage unit 15 by the document data analysis unit 16, and the normal display size is displayed. Is displayed in the area of the drawing on the screen of the display 12a. That is, the display control section 19 constitutes a display control means, and the mouse of the input device 13 constitutes a graphic data selection means. When "FIG. N" shown in FIG. 4B is selected, a figure number to be displayed on the display 12a can be input to display the graphic data in a normal display size. The "drawing m" is set in advance so that it can be selected by scrolling without taking time, for example, up to FIG. 10 (m = 10), and can be selected and displayed by just clicking. . In the present embodiment, the case where the selection is made by clicking the mouse will be mainly described. However, it goes without saying that the selection can be made by moving the cursor using the scroll key in the keyboard and inputting the confirmation key or the like.

Next, the display of graphic data will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, in response to a read command of the published patent publication from the input device 13 and the input of the search expression, the document data of the corresponding published patent publication is searched and read from the CD-ROM set in the external storage device 11, and the document data is stored. Department
4 and, as shown in FIG. 4 (a), a public patent gazette is specified from among the bibliographical items of the analysis result by the document data analysis unit 16, for example, tree display data of the publication number and the title of the invention. Display device 12 created by tree creation unit 17
Is displayed on the display 12a. At the same time, the bibliographic items of the document data of the published patent publication to be displayed at the beginning of the tree (or the published patent publication selected after displaying the tree), and the document data of each item of the specification and drawing are displayed from the top. I do. The drawing at this time is displayed from FIG.

After setting this state, or selecting a published patent publication in the tree, the bibliographic matter of the document data,
In a state where each item of the specification and the drawing is displayed, in the drawing column on the upper part of the display 12a shown in FIG.
When the “drawing list” shown in (b) is selected (step P
1) The document data analysis unit 16 reads from the document data storage unit 15 the graphic data of the drawing included in the patent publication being displayed from FIG. 1 (steps P2 and P3), and the drawing data is processed by the drawing reduction unit 18 As shown in FIG. 2, graphic data of a normal display size (drawing F1) is bit-mapped to a memory (not shown) (step P4), and its height / width is set to B /
After performing the reduction processing for reducing the size from A to b / a (step P5), the display control means 19 sequentially pastes the reduced graphic data into a memory area for displaying a drawing on the display 12a (step P5). P6), when the reading, reduction, and pasting of these graphic data are completed for all the drawings included in the displayed patent publication (step P6).
7), the list of reduced drawings shown in FIG.
(Step P8). Note that the graphic data reduction processing is performed by horizontally displaying “FIG. 1” to “FIG. 5” horizontally in the display area of the drawing on the display 12a, and starting from “FIG. Of FIG.

When one of the drawing lists displayed on the display 12a is directly clicked on the screen and selected by a mouse (step P9), the document data analysis unit 16 stores the corresponding graphic data in the document data storage unit. 15 (step P10), bitmap development is performed on a memory area for display on the display 12a (step P11), and as shown in FIG. 6, the drawing on the display 12a is displayed at the display size of the normal drawing F1. It is displayed in the area (step P12).

As described above, in the present embodiment, the “drawing list”
The graphic data of the drawings included in the patent publication being displayed according to the selection input is sequentially read out, the display size is reduced, and the list is displayed in the area for displaying the drawings on the display 12a. Can be checked at the same time without scrolling from FIG. 1 and sequentially switching or displaying the contents by inputting the drawing number. It is possible to select a drawing that is most suitable for understanding the technical contents described in the patent publication.
This drawing is selected by selecting one of the drawing list on the screen of the display 12a by clicking the mouse,
Since the graphic data can be displayed on the display 12a in a normal display size, graphic data having a display size whose contents can be confirmed in detail on the screen can be easily selected and displayed.

Therefore, a search method of the search system 10 such as displaying a prior art search for searching for a patent publication or the like at the same time by specifying an area on the display 12a for each item such as bibliographic information, specification, drawing, etc. Together, for example,
You can refer to the list of drawings while checking the contents of the specification and abstract, and when referring to the most suitable drawing in detail, easily select the graphic data and display it at the normal display size And the workability can be improved.

Next, FIG. 7 is a view showing a device on which a second embodiment of the graphic display device according to the present invention is mounted. Since this embodiment is configured substantially in the same manner as the above-described embodiment, FIG.
And only the characteristic portions will be described. In FIG. 1, the drawing reduction unit 18 is configured to be able to change the reduction ratio for reducing the display size of the graphic data, and scrolls the drawing column displayed on the upper part of the display 12a as shown in FIG. By selecting "Change reduction ratio",
For example, a preset reduction ratio is selected according to the number of mouse clicks, or a reduction ratio is input from a keyboard, and the graphic data of the drawing received from the document data analysis unit 16 is reduced at the reduction ratio.

In this embodiment, in addition to the functions and effects of the above-described first embodiment, the graphic data of the drawings to be displayed on the display 12a can be reduced by changing the reduction ratio. If the number of drawings included is large, increase the reduction ratio and display a large number of drawings in a list at the same time as possible, or change the reduction ratio if the drawing contents are difficult to check in detail. Thus, the graphic data can be displayed at an arbitrary display size. Therefore, the workability of the prior art search for searching a patent publication or the like can be further improved.

In the above embodiment, the external storage device 11 for reading out the document data (graphic data) from the CD-ROM is used.
Is directly connected to the search system body 10, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the search system body 10 is stored in an external device that stores document data in a built-in storage medium such as a hard disk. May be directly connected, or the search system body 10 may be connected via a LAN (Local Area Network) or a public line to apply the document data in common. In this case, since the document data is stored in the built-in storage medium,
Searching / reading can be performed more quickly than reading from the ROM.

[0027]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the graphic data to be displayed is sequentially read out, the display size is reduced, and the list is displayed, so that any one of a plurality of graphic data displayed simultaneously as a list can be selected. Can be easily selected, and necessary graphic data can be used without switching the graphic data to be displayed one by one and confirming the necessity thereof. As a result, workability can be improved.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to select any graphic data from the graphic data displayed in a list on the screen and display the graphic data in a normal display size. Any graphic data can be directly selected on the screen and displayed at the normal display size without depending on the input operation from the user, and the workability can be further improved.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the reduction ratio for reducing the display size of the graphic data to be displayed can be changed, so that the display size that can be confirmed according to the number of graphic data and its contents Thus, the reduction ratio can be changed, and the workability can be further improved. According to the invention as set forth in claim 4, since the graphic data of the drawings included in the document data of the published patent application or the like relating to the published patent application is displayed in a list, the technical contents of the prior art search and the like are reduced. Graphic data suitable for understanding can be easily selected. Therefore, in conjunction with a display method of simultaneously displaying the document data of the search system by designating an area for each item, the workability of prior art search and the like can be further improved, and the technical contents can be understood. It is possible to easily select and refer to the most suitable graphic data of a drawing, graphic data of a drawing showing a main part, and graphic data of a drawing necessary for understanding a specification or the like.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a search system of a patent publication in which a first embodiment of a graphic display device according to the present invention is mounted, and is a block diagram showing a schematic overall configuration thereof.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a display size of the graphic data.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the display of the graphic data.

FIGS. 4A and 4B are explanatory diagrams illustrating the display of the graphic data, wherein FIG. 4A is a conceptual diagram illustrating a display screen at the time of startup, and FIG.

5A and 5B are explanatory diagrams for explaining display of graphic data different from that of FIG. 4; FIG. 5A is a display screen of a list of reduced graphic data, and FIG.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram for explaining display of graphic data different from that of FIG. 5, and is a display screen of graphic data selected from a list of the graphic data.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a search system of a patent publication in which a graphic display device according to a second embodiment of the present invention is mounted, and is a conceptual diagram illustrating a column for changing the display of the graphic data.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Retrieval system main unit 11 External storage device 12 Display device (graphic data display means) 12a Display 13 Input device (input operation means, graphic data selection means) 15 Document data storage unit (graphic data storage unit) 16 Document data analysis unit 17 tree Creation unit 18 Drawing reduction unit (reduction processing means) 19 Display control unit (display control unit)

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A graphic data storage means, a graphic data display means, and an input operation means, wherein the graphic data stored by the graphic data storage means are read out in accordance with a display command input from the input operation means and are read to the graphic data display means. A graphic display device for displaying, comprising: a reduction processing means for reducing the display size of graphic data; and a plurality of graphic data sequentially read from the graphic data storage means and reduced by the reduction processing means. And a display control means for displaying a list on the graphic display device. 2. A graphic data selecting means for selecting one of a list of graphic data displayed on the graphic data displaying means on a screen of the graphic data displaying means, wherein the display control means includes a graphic data selecting means. 2. The graphic display device according to claim 1, wherein said graphic data is displayed on the graphic data display means in a normal display size based on the selection of the graphic data by the method. 3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the reduction processing unit is configured to change a reduction ratio of the display size of the graphic data, and the reduction processing unit changes the reduction ratio of the display size of the graphic data in accordance with an input from the input operation means. The graphic display device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein: 4. A system for retrieving document data relating to a published patent application, wherein the graphic data storage means stores document data including graphic data, and the graphic data display means displays the document data including graphic data. The graphic display device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein: