JPH11338878A - Www browser device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a WWW browser device and its method where an anchor is easily selected. SOLUTION: An HTHL document analyzing means 10 analyzes an HTML document, an HTML document display means 102 displays the anchor, an anchor character generating means 103 generates a character corresponding to the anchor, an anchor character display means 104 displays the anchor character in the neighborhood of the anchor corresponding to the anchor character which is generated by the means 103 and an anchor control means 106 is shifted to URL corresponding to the anchor character which is inputted by the means 105 when the anchor character is inputted from the means 105.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a WWW (World).
The present invention relates to a WWW browser apparatus and a WWW browsing method for browsing a homepage of d Wide Web).

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a conventional WWW browser device.

As shown in FIG. 6, a conventional WWW browser device includes an HTML document interpreter 6 for interpreting an HTML document.
01, an HTML document display unit 602 that displays an anchor indicating a link to the text and image and the URL of the HTML document, a pointing device 603 that detects the selection of the anchor, and a designation that the anchor is selected by the pointing device. Control unit 604 for shifting to the linked destination, and an anchor access history storage unit 605 for storing whether or not the anchor has been accessed in the past.
And

In a conventional WWW browser device, a desired screen is generally opened by selecting a screen anchor with a pointing device such as a mouse, a trackball, and a touch pen. In addition, due to recent miniaturization of information processing devices and improvement of communication infrastructure, outdoor data communication is frequently performed. Therefore, conventionally, the user has operated in an unstable place while looking at a small screen of a small portable device.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a display on a conventional WWW browser device. In FIG. 7, the dashed underline indicates that the anchor has already been accessed.

An arrow is a cursor of a pointing device.

[0007]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional WWW browser device, a notebook PC or a PD
When operating with a small portable device such as A, there is no space for using a mouse, and it is difficult to click a small anchor on a small screen with a trackball or other pointing device.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a WWW browser apparatus and method for associating a character with an anchor indicating a link to a URL and inputting the character with a keyboard or a remote controller. , So that the user can easily move to the link destination.

With this configuration, even when there is no space for using the mouse or when the anchor on the screen is too small to be selected, it is possible to easily select the anchor using a keyboard or a remote controller and move to the link destination.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The invention according to claim 1 of the present invention provides an HTML document interpreting means for interpreting an HTML document,
HTML document display means for displaying an anchor indicating a link to the text and image and the URL of the HTML document, anchor character generation means for generating a character corresponding to the anchor, and displaying the generated anchor character near the corresponding anchor What is claimed is: 1. A WWW browser device comprising: an anchor character display unit; an anchor character input unit; and an anchor control unit that shifts to a designated link destination when a character corresponding to an anchor is input. Even when there is no anchor, or when the anchor on the screen is too small to select, the anchor can be easily selected using a keyboard or a remote controller and the link can be moved to the link destination.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an anchor character reservation means for reserving and allocating an arbitrary character to an anchor of a specific operation. By assigning easy-to-enter characters and numbers to anchors for specific operations such as "Return to Home" and "Go to Top Page"
Operability is improved.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an anchor access history storing means for storing whether or not an anchor has been accessed, and an anchor character generating means stores the information stored in the anchor access history storing means. The operability is improved by generating an anchor character based on which an anchor that has not been accessed and an anchor that has been accessed can be identified.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the third aspect of the present invention, the anchor character generating means assigns one character to an unaccessed anchor and one character to an already accessed anchor. By allocating the above-mentioned characters, it is easy to select an anchor which is likely to be accessed without being accessed.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the third aspect of the present invention, the anchor character generating means assigns one character to an already accessed anchor and one character to an unaccessed anchor. By allocating the above character, it is easy to select an already accessed anchor that may be accessed on a daily basis.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail using a WWW browser apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 to 5 as an example.

(Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a WWW browser apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the WWW browser apparatus includes an HTML document interpreting unit 101, an HTML document displaying unit 102, an anchor character generating unit 103, an anchor character displaying unit 104, an anchor character input unit 105, An anchor control unit 106 and an anchor character reservation unit 107 are provided.

The HTML document interpreter 101 analyzes the read HTML document. HTML document display unit 102
Is the HT interpreted by the HTML document interpreter 101
Display text and images of the ML document and anchors indicating links to URLs. Anchor character reservation unit 10
Reference numeral 7 reserves and assigns easy-to-input characters and numbers to anchors of specific operations such as “return to home”, “to top page”, “to previous page”, and “to next page”. It is also possible to reserve characters for anchors that are accessed on a daily basis. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the assignment. Anchor character generator 10
Reference numeral 3 denotes an anchor character reservation unit 10 for the anchor of the HTML document interpreted by the HTML document interpretation unit 101.
In the case of an anchor reserved in step 7, reserved characters are assigned, and arbitrary characters are generated for other anchors. Anchor character display part 1
Reference numeral 04 displays an anchor character generated by the anchor character generation unit 103 and corresponding to the anchor, near the anchor displayed by the HTML document display unit 102. Anchor character input unit 105 receives an anchor character input from a keyboard or a remote controller. The anchor control unit 106 shifts to the URL of the anchor corresponding to the character input from the anchor character input unit 105. At the new URL, the HTML document interpreting unit 101 analyzes the HTML document and repeats the above operation. FIG. 3 shows an example of a display according to the present embodiment.

According to this configuration, the user can assign an anchor character that is easy to input or memorize to the anchor of the specific operation, so that the selection of those anchors becomes easy, and the selection of other anchors can be made with the keyboard. It can be easily operated by key operation from the remote control or the like.

(Embodiment 2) FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a WWW browser device according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, the WWW browser apparatus includes an HTML document interpreting unit 201, an HTML document displaying unit 202, an anchor character generating unit 203, an anchor character displaying unit 204, and an anchor character input unit 205. , An anchor control unit 206 and an anchor access history storage unit 207.

The HTML document interpreter 201 analyzes the read HTML document. HTML document display unit 202
Is the HT interpreted by the HTML document interpreter 201
Display text and images of the ML document and anchors indicating links to URLs. Anchor access history storage unit 2
07 stores whether or not the anchor has been accessed in the past. Based on the information stored in the anchor access history storage unit, the anchor character generation unit 203 that generates an anchor character so that an unaccessed anchor and an already accessed anchor can be identified,
Character characters are assigned, one or more characters are assigned to an already accessed anchor, or one or more characters are assigned to an already accessed anchor, and one or more characters are assigned to an unaccessed anchor. Anchor character display unit 204 uses HTML
A character corresponding to the anchor generated by the anchor character generation unit 203 is displayed near the anchor displayed by the document display unit 202. Anchor character input unit 205 receives an anchor character input from a keyboard or a remote controller. The anchor control unit 206
The processing shifts to the URL of the anchor corresponding to the character input from the anchor character input unit 205. New U
In the RL, the HTML document interpretation unit 201 analyzes the HTML document and repeats the above operation. FIG. 5 shows an example of a display according to the present embodiment. In FIG. 5, the dashed underline indicates that the anchor has already been accessed. In this embodiment, the anchor character generation unit 2
In No. 03, one character is assigned to an unaccessed anchor, and one or more characters are assigned to an already accessed anchor.

According to this configuration, when the number of anchors on one screen is larger than the types of characters that can be input from a keyboard, a remote controller, or the like, an anchor that is likely to be accessed without being accessed without being accessed is assigned to one character. The number of input operations can be reduced by assigning an already accessed anchor that may be accessed to one character.

[0024]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, even when there is no space for using a mouse or when it is difficult to click a small anchor on a small screen with a trackball or other pointing device. An anchor can be easily selected by key input from a keyboard or a remote controller. In addition, by arbitrarily assigning a character to the anchor of the specific operation, customization can be performed and operability is improved. Furthermore, the number of input operations can be reduced by assigning an anchor that is likely to be accessed without access to one character, or assigning an anchor that has already been accessed and possibly accessed to one character.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a WWW browser device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a reserved character for an anchor of a specific operation of the WWW browser device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display of the WWW browser device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a WWW browser device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display of a WWW browser device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional WWW browser device.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display of a conventional WWW browser device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 101 HTML document interpretation unit 102 HTML document display unit 103 Anchor character generation unit 104 Anchor character display unit 105 Anchor character input unit 106 Anchor control unit 107 Anchor character reservation unit 201 HTML document interpretation unit 202 HTML document display unit 203 Anchor character generation unit 204 Anchor character display unit 205 Anchor character input unit 206 Anchor control unit 207 Anchor access history storage unit

Claims (15)

[Claims] 1. An HTML document interpreting means for interpreting an HTML document, an HTML document displaying means for displaying an anchor indicating a link to a text and an image and a URL of the HTML document, and an anchor character generation for generating a character corresponding to the anchor. Means, an anchor character display means for displaying the anchor character near an anchor corresponding to the anchor character generated by the anchor character generation means, an anchor character input means for inputting the anchor character, and an anchor character input means A WWW browser apparatus comprising: an anchor control unit that shifts to the URL corresponding to the anchor character input by the user. 2. The WWW browser device according to claim 1, further comprising anchor character reservation means for reserving and assigning an arbitrary character to an anchor of a specific operation. 3. An anchor access history storage means for storing whether or not an anchor has been accessed, and an anchor character generation means based on information stored in the anchor access history storage means and an unaccessed anchor and an already accessed anchor. 3. The WWW browser device according to claim 1, wherein the anchor character is generated so that the anchor can be identified. 4. The WWW browser apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the anchor character generating means assigns one character to an unaccessed anchor and assigns one or more characters to an already accessed anchor. 5. The WWW browser device according to claim 3, wherein the anchor character generation means assigns one character to the already accessed anchor and one or more characters to the unaccessed anchor. 6. An HTML document interpreting step for interpreting the HTML document, an HTML document displaying step for displaying an anchor indicating a link to a text and an image and a URL of the HTML document, and an anchor character generation for generating a character corresponding to the anchor. An anchor character display step of displaying the anchor character near an anchor corresponding to the anchor character generated by the anchor character generation step; an anchor character input step of inputting the anchor character; and an anchor character input step The anchor control step of shifting to the URL corresponding to the anchor character input by the WWW browsing method. 7. The WWW browsing method according to claim 6, further comprising an anchor character reservation step of reserving and assigning an arbitrary character to an anchor of a specific operation. 8. An anchor access history storing step of storing whether an anchor has been accessed or not, wherein an anchor character generating step determines an unaccessed anchor and an already accessed anchor based on the information stored in the anchor access history storing step. 8. The WWW browsing method according to claim 6, wherein an anchor character is generated so that an anchor can be identified. 9. The WWW browsing method according to claim 8, wherein one character is assigned to an anchor that has not been accessed in the anchor character generation step, and one or more characters are assigned to an anchor that has been accessed. 10. The WWW browsing method according to claim 8, wherein in the anchor character generation step, one character is assigned to an anchor that has been accessed, and one or more characters are assigned to an anchor that has not been accessed. 11. A computer readable recording medium storing a code of a WWW browser control program, wherein the code of the WWW browser control program includes an HTML document interpretation step of interpreting an HTML document, and HTML.
HTML document display code for displaying an anchor indicating a link to a text and image of a document and a URL, code for an anchor character generation process for generating a character corresponding to the anchor, and an anchor generated by the anchor character generation process A code of an anchor character display step of displaying the anchor character near an anchor corresponding to a character, a code of an anchor character input step of inputting the anchor character, and a code corresponding to the anchor character input in the anchor character input step A computer-readable memory including code for an anchor control step for moving to the URL. 12. The computer-readable memory according to claim 11, further comprising a code for an anchor character reservation step of reserving and assigning an arbitrary character to an anchor of a specific operation. 13. An anchor access history storing step for storing whether or not an anchor has been accessed, wherein the code of the anchor character generating step is based on the information stored in the anchor access history storing step. 13. The computer-readable memory according to claim 11, wherein an anchor character is generated so as to be able to identify an already accessed anchor. 14. The computer-readable memory according to claim 13, wherein one character is assigned to an anchor whose code in the anchor character generation step has not been accessed, and one or more characters are assigned to an anchor already accessed. 15. The computer-readable memory according to claim 13, wherein one character is assigned to an anchor whose code has already been accessed in the anchor character generation step, and one or more characters are assigned to an anchor that has not been accessed.