JPH1165954A - Electronic mail system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily capture an added part by adding new data to a received electronic mail for preparing an electronic mail, separating the received electronic mail data from the added content data, and transmitting it. SOLUTION: A first electronic mail device receives and stores the data of a document 200 from a second electronic mail device, and displays the data on a display. A user designates and deletes unnecessary graphic elements 202 and 203 from the displayed document 200 by a keyboard, and re-displays the document 210 on the display. The user inputs graphic elements 221 and 222 to be newly added by the keyboard for addition edition, and displays a document 220 on the display. Data indicating division between the document 210 and the graphic elements 221 and 222 are added to this, and transmitted to a third electronic mail device. The third electronic mail device displays the document 220 on the display, and only the graphic elements 221 and 222 to be newly added can be displayed by the operation of the keyboard.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic mail system for transmitting and receiving, as an electronic mail, a document obtained by synthesizing a plurality of constituent elements such as a sentence, a still image, and a moving image (including a sound) between a plurality of users.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, data that can be transmitted and received in an electronic mail system has been limited to text represented by character codes. In recent years, the standardization of the protocol of the e-mail system capable of transmitting and receiving data other than text has been advanced, and it has become possible to transmit and receive multimedia information such as still images and moving images. In an e-mail system, when a recipient of an e-mail edits the content of an e-mail received and then sends the e-mail as an e-mail, a newly added portion of the e-mail received by the e-mail recipient of the edited e-mail There is a case where it is desired to know the information disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-28723.

The electronic mail system disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-28723 is for transmitting and receiving diagram data composed of geometric figures (including image images) and characters or character strings. Means for adding and transmitting editing stage identification information for identifying an editing stage for each user, and distinguishing the editing stage from each other according to each graphic element in the chart data received from another and the editing stage identification information for each user Receiving display means for displaying in a predetermined display format.

[0004]

In such an electronic mail system, since the editing stage identification information is added to all the graphic elements included in the electronic mail, the data amount of the transmitted and received electronic mail has increased. . In addition, since the reception display means performs display according to the editing stage identification information for each graphic element, there is a problem that the reception display means is complicated.

The present invention edits the contents of an e-mail received by an e-mail recipient without increasing the data amount of e-mail transmitted and received between users and without requiring complicated reception display means. Provided is an electronic mail system in which a recipient of an edited electronic mail can easily grasp a newly added portion of the received electronic mail when the electronic mail is transmitted as an electronic mail thereafter.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An electronic mail system according to the present invention is an electronic mail system having an electronic mail apparatus for transmitting and receiving a document in which a plurality of components such as text, still images, and moving images (including audio) are synthesized. The e-mail device includes: an editing unit that separates data of an e-mail from another e-mail device and data to be newly added to create a new e-mail; a storage unit that stores an e-mail; Transmitting means for separating the electronic mail edited by the means from the data of the e-mail from the other e-mail device and the newly added data, and transmitting the e-mail transmitted from the transmitting means of the other e-mail device Receiving means for receiving an e-mail, and editing when the e-mail received by the receiving means is edited by an editing means of another e-mail device Comprising a display means for displaying newly superposing the being added data by data and edit e-mail, but. According to this e-mail system, when an e-mail recipient edits the contents of an e-mail and then sends the e-mail, the edited e-mail recipient adds a new one of the received e-mails. It is possible to easily grasp the place where it was done.

Another electronic mail system according to the present invention is an electronic mail system having an electronic mail apparatus for transmitting and receiving a document in which a plurality of constituent elements such as a sentence, a still image, and a moving image (including sound) are synthesized. The e-mail device separates the data of the e-mail from another e-mail device, the data that designates a part of the e-mail data from the other e-mail device as invisible, and the data to be newly added, and newly adds the Editing means for creating mail, storage means for storing e-mail, e-mail data edited by the editing means, e-mail data from the other e-mail device and e-mail data from the other e-mail device Transmission means for separately transmitting data designating a part of the data as invisible and the data to be newly added, and transmission means for transmitting from another e-mail device. Receiving means for receiving the e-mail to be edited, and when the e-mail received by the receiving means is edited by the editing means of another e-mail device, the data of the e-mail before editing and the Display means for superimposing and displaying data that is partially invisible and data newly added by editing. According to this e-mail system, when the e-mail recipient edits the content of the e-mail and then sends the e-mail, the edited e-mail recipient is newly added to the received e-mail. You can easily see the location of the email, and you can also see the contents of the email before editing.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. << Embodiment 1 >> An e-mail system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 shows the configuration of the electronic mail system of the present invention. The e-mail device 100 includes a terminal device 101, a display device 102, a storage device 103, and a keyboard 104, and is connected to a network 106. Note that a plurality of e-mail devices are connected to the network 106. The terminal device 101 includes an editing unit 110 for editing a received document or text, a transmitting unit 111 for transmitting a document as an electronic mail, and a receiving unit 112 for receiving an electronic mail as a document. The display device 102
The terminal device 101 is connected to the terminal device 101 and displays a document of an e-mail received by the terminal device 101 or a document edited by a user.
The storage device 103 stores the received document and the edited document. The keyboard 104 is connected to the terminal device 101,
The data input by the user is output to the terminal device 101.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a document displayed on the display device 102. FIG. 2A shows a document 20 before editing.
0, FIG. 2B shows the document 210 after removing unnecessary graphic elements, and FIG. 2C shows the document 220 after adding new graphic elements. The document includes one or more graphic elements representing any one of a sentence, a still image, and a moving image (including sound). In FIG. 2, each document and graphic element are assumed as follows for the following description. Document 2
00 is the four graphic elements 201, 202, 203 and 20
4, and the graphic elements 202 and 203 are unnecessary graphic elements to be deleted. Graphic elements 221 and 222 in the document 220 are newly added graphic elements. FIG. 3 shows the structure of the document 220. Structure 30 representing entire document 220
Numeral 0 includes a text 310 from which unnecessary graphic elements have been deleted and a text 320 having graphic elements to be newly added. FIG. 4 shows a data structure when the document 220 is transmitted as an electronic mail. Data 400 is data representing document 220. Data 400 is data 41 representing text 310
0, data 4 indicating a break between text 310 and text 320
30 and data 420 representing the text 320.

Hereinafter, the operation of the electronic mail system will be described. For convenience of explanation, in this embodiment, an e-mail device for editing the contents of an e-mail is a first e-mail device, and an e-mail device for transmitting an e-mail to the first e-mail device is a second e-mail device. The device, an e-mail device that receives an e-mail from the first e-mail device, is called a third e-mail device. The receiving unit 112 of the first electronic mail device receives the document 200 transmitted from the second electronic mail device via the network 106 as an electronic mail. The data of the received document 200 is output to the storage device 103 and stored in the storage device 103. The display device 102 displays the received electronic mail document 200.
Is displayed. The user can extract unnecessary graphic elements 202 and 203 from the document 200 displayed on the display device 102.
Is specified using the keyboard 104. Editing unit 110
Deletes graphic elements 202 and 203 from document 200,
The deleted document is displayed on the display device 102. The user further inputs the newly added graphic elements 221 and 222 using the keyboard 104. The editing unit 110 creates data of the graphic elements 221 and 222,
The document 220 to which the graphic elements 221 and 222 have been added is displayed on the display device 102. Here, editing unit 1
10 does not add the graphic elements 221 and 222 directly to the document 210, but superimposes the text 320 having the graphic elements 221 and 222 on the text 310 having the content of the document 210 as shown in FIG. , A document 220 is created.

The transmitting section 111 of the first electronic mail device transmits the document 220 edited by the user via the network 106 to the third electronic mail device. Here, transmitting section 111 of the first e-mail device includes data 410 representing text 310, data 430 representing a break between text 310 and text 320, and data 420 representing text 320.
, A series of data 400 linked in this order is created and transmitted as data representing the document 220. The receiving unit 112 of the third e-mail device receives the e-mail document 220 from the first e-mail device and outputs it to the editing unit 110. The editing unit 110 outputs the text 31 included in the data 400.
The document 220 is displayed on the display device 102 by superimposing the text 320 with 0. The received document 220
Is stored in the storage device 103. When the user of the third e-mail apparatus wants to confirm the newly added graphic element, he or she inputs using the keyboard 104 to display only the newly added graphic element. Editing unit 110
Displays the text 320 composed only of the newly added graphic element on the display device 102 in accordance with the instruction.
It should be noted that which of the text 310, the text 320, and the text obtained by superimposing the text 310 and the text 320 is displayed.
The user can specify using the keyboard 104.

As described above, the data of the e-mail to be transmitted is constituted by separating the data of the received e-mail from which unnecessary graphic elements have been deleted and the data of the newly added graphic elements. Therefore, the recipient of the edited email will be
A newly added graphic element in the received document can be easily grasped.

Embodiment 2 An electronic mail system according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1 and FIGS. The configuration of the e-mail system according to the second embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment. FIG. 5 shows a document displayed on the display device 102. FIG.
5A shows a document 500 before editing, FIG. 5B shows a document 510 to which an opaque area (graphic element) for obscuring unnecessary graphic elements is added, and FIG. 10 shows a document 520 to which various graphic elements are added. In FIG. 2, each document and graphic element are assumed as follows for the following description. The document 500 has four graphic elements 501 and 502,
503 and 504, and the graphic elements 502 and 503 are unnecessary graphic elements. Opaque area 51 in document 510
1 and 512 are unnecessary graphic elements 502 and 50, respectively.
3 is an opaque area that covers 3. The graphic elements 521 and 522 in the document 520 are newly added graphic elements. FIG. 6 shows the structure of documents 510 and 520. In FIG. 6, a structure 600 represents the entire document 510, a structure 601 represents the entire document 520, a text 610 represents a text having the same contents as the document 500, a text 620 represents a text having an opaque area to be newly added, and a text 630. Indicates a text having a graphic element to be newly added. FIG. 7 shows a data structure when the document 520 is transmitted as an electronic mail. Data 70
0 is data representing the document 520. Data 700
Are data 710 representing the text 610, data 740 representing the delimitation between the text 610 and the text 620, data 720 representing the text 620, data 750 representing the delimitation between the text 620 and the text 630, and data 73 representing the text 630.
Consists of zero.

The operation of the electronic mail system will be described below. For convenience of explanation, in this embodiment, an e-mail device for editing the contents of an e-mail is a first e-mail device, and an e-mail device for transmitting an e-mail to the first e-mail device is a second e-mail device. The device, an e-mail device that receives an e-mail from the first e-mail device, is called a third e-mail device. The receiving unit 112 of the first e-mail device receives the document 500 transmitted from the second e-mail device via the network 106 as an e-mail. The data of the received document 500 is output to the storage device 103 and stored in the storage device 103. The display device 102 displays the received e-mail document 500.
Is displayed.

[0015] The user can extract unnecessary graphic elements 502 and 503 from the document 500 displayed on the display device 102.
Opaque areas 511 and 512 covering keyboard 1
Enter using 04. Editing unit 110 is opaque area 5
11 and 512 are added, and a document 510 in which unnecessary graphic elements 502 and 503 are covered is displayed on the display device 102. Here, the editing unit 110 does not directly add the opaque areas 511 and 512 to the document 500 but, as shown in FIG.
Text 62 with opaque areas 511 and 512 on top of zero
The document 510 is created by superimposing 0. The user further uses the keyboard 104 to input graphic elements 521 and 522 to be newly added. The editing unit 110 creates the graphic elements 521 and 522, and the document 520 to which the graphic elements 521 and 522 are added is displayed on the display device 10.
2 is displayed. Here, the editing unit 110 stores the graphic element 52
Instead of adding 1 and 522 directly to document 510,
As shown in FIG. 5, a text 6 having graphic elements 521 and 522 on texts 610 and 620 having the contents of the document 510.
A document 520 is created by superimposing 30.

The transmitting unit 111 of the first electronic mail device transmits a document 520 edited by the user via the network 106.
To the third e-mail device. Here, transmitting section 111 of the first e-mail device transmits data 710 representing text 610, data 740 representing a break between text 610 and text 620, data 720 representing text 620, and text 62.
The document 520 is transmitted as a series of data 700 in which data 750 indicating a break between 0 and the text 630 and data 730 representing the text 630 are connected in this order. The receiving unit 112 of the third e-mail device receives the document 520 of the e-mail from the first e-mail device and outputs it to the editing unit 110. The editing unit 110 overlaps the text 610, the text 620, and the text 630 included in the data 700, and the document 520 is displayed on the display device 102. Also,
The data of the received document 520 is stored in the storage device 103.

If the user of the third e-mail device wants to confirm the newly added graphic element, the keyboard 104
Is input to display only the newly added graphic element. According to the instruction, the editing unit 110 causes the display device 102 to display a text 630 including only the newly added graphic element. When the user wants to check the contents before the editing, the user inputs using the keyboard 104 to display only the graphic elements before the editing. In response to the instruction, the editing unit 110 causes the display device 102 to display a text 610 including only graphic elements before editing. The text 610, the text 630, the text 610 and the text 620
The user uses the keyboard 104 to display a document created by overlapping texts in which arbitrary texts are combined in an arbitrary order, such as texts obtained by combining texts 610, 620 and 630, and the like. Can be specified.

As described above, unlike the first embodiment, instead of deleting unnecessary graphic elements, an opaque area that covers unnecessary graphic elements is added, and the data of the electronic mail to be transmitted is The data of the mail, the data of the opaque area that covers unnecessary graphics, and the data of the newly added graphic element are separated and configured. Therefore, the recipient of the edited e-mail can easily grasp the newly added graphic element in the received document, and can also see the contents of the unedited e-mail.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, the contents of an e-mail received by an e-mail recipient can be reduced without increasing the amount of e-mail data and without requiring complicated reception display means. Is edited and then transmitted as an e-mail, the recipient of the edited e-mail can easily grasp the newly added portion of the received e-mail.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an electronic mail system according to a first embodiment and a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a view showing a document display of the electronic mail system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a structural diagram of a document in the electronic mail system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a data configuration diagram of an electronic mail system according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a view showing a document display of the electronic mail system according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a structural diagram of a document in an electronic mail system according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a data configuration diagram of an electronic mail system according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 100 e-mail device 101 terminal device 102 display device 103 storage device 104 keyboard 106 network 110 editing unit 111 transmission unit 112 reception unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An electronic mail system having an electronic mail device for transmitting and receiving a document in which a plurality of constituent elements such as text, still images, and moving images (including audio) are synthesized, wherein the electronic mail device is another electronic mail device. Editing means for separating the data of the e-mail from the mail device from newly added data to create a new e-mail; storage means for storing the e-mail; Transmitting means for separating and transmitting the data of the e-mail from the mail device and the newly added data, receiving means for receiving the e-mail transmitted from the transmitting means of another e-mail device, and receiving by the receiving means If the e-mail to be edited is edited by the editing means of another e-mail device, it is newly added by editing the data of the e-mail before editing and the e-mail. Electronic mail system is display means for displaying by overlapping the data is comprises a, characterized in that. 2. An e-mail system having an e-mail device for transmitting and receiving a document in which a plurality of constituent elements such as text, still images, and moving images (including audio) are synthesized, wherein the e-mail device is another electronic device. Editing means for separating the data of the e-mail from the mail device and the data for designating a part of the data of the e-mail from another e-mail device from being invisible and the data to be newly added to create a new e-mail, A storage unit for storing a mail, and designating the electronic mail edited by the editing unit to be invisible with respect to the data of the electronic mail from the other electronic mail device and a part of the data of the electronic mail from the other electronic mail device. Transmitting means for separating the data and the newly added data and transmitting the received data; receiving means for receiving an e-mail transmitted from the transmitting means of another e-mail device; Means, and when the electronic mail received by the receiving means is edited by the editing means of another electronic mail device, data of the electronic mail before editing and data for making a part of the electronic mail before editing invisible. An e-mail system comprising: display means for superimposing and displaying data newly added by editing.