JPS59197926A - Dynamic document display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display a graphic form and picture corresponding to a part of a sentence indicated by an operator so as to successively display pictures corresponding to the sentence, by displaying the sentence on a display device in the first place and successively moving a cursor, etc., along the reading part of the sentence when the displayed sentence is read. CONSTITUTION:A sentence consists of a sentence section and graphic section and the sentence is stored in a document storing section 1. The name of a document to be displayed and information indicating the location of a part of a displayed document section being read by an operator are inputted into an input section 2. Moreover, a function which can display an inputted character string, picture, etc., is given to a display section 3 and the storing section 1, the input section 2, and the display section 3 are controlled by a control section 4. A processing section 41 having various functions, corresponding tables 42, and a document data section 43 are installed to the control section 4. A sentence is displayed on the display section 3 in the first place and, when a cursor, etc., is successively moved along the reading part of the sentence, graphic forms and pictures corresponding to the sentence indicated by the operator are displayed.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention uses a document electronically created using a Japanese word processor or the like, displays the text portion of the document first, and then displays the displayed text portion from above. By sequentially specifying the position with a cursor etc., shapes related to this sentence are displayed, and such operations are sequentially performed on the sentence parts to display the shapes one after another,
A dynamic document display system is involved in which one document is ultimately displayed.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

Picture books for children are generally divided into a text section and a picture (graphics or image) section. In paper picture books, each member's picture is drawn to match the text written on the page. Usually, the final image of the text is represented by a picture. However, with the widespread use of Japanese word processors and the appearance of high-end word processors that can handle not only text but also figures and images, documents that were previously paper documents are being digitized. The same goes for picture books, etc. Furthermore, when picture books and the like are digitized, it is possible to achieve things that were not possible with paper. For example, with paper picture books, it is not possible to display the pictures one after the other, so you draw the final picture, but when it comes to electronic books, the pictures are displayed one after the other as you read the text.
It becomes possible to display and go to (shapes). In this way, sequential display with movement has not been possible on conventional paper.

[Purpose of the invention]

An object of the present invention is to provide a moving document in which figures and the like are sequentially displayed as the text and the like are read one after another.

[Summary of the invention]

In the present invention, a text is first displayed on a display device, and when reading the displayed text, the operator can determine the position of the part being read by sequentially moving a cursor or the like to the part being read. Instruct.

Graphics, images, etc. corresponding to the designated text are sequentially displayed on the display device. As you read the text, pictures corresponding to the story will be displayed. The present invention relates to a dynamic document display device that dynamically displays graphics related to sentences in this manner.

〔Effect of the invention〕

The device of the present invention has the following effects that cannot be obtained with conventional document editing devices.

1) Graphics and images related to the text can be displayed sequentially. The user knows how to read the text and the pictures appear step by step, creating a dynamic image.

2) The amount of document data is comparable to the amount of document data that can be created using normal code data. Even with such a small amount of data, dynamic images of documents can be displayed.

[Embodiments of the invention]

The present invention will be specifically explained using a picture book for children. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the components. The document is composed of a text section and a graphic section, and is stored in the document storage section 1. The input section 2 is used for inputting the name of a document to be displayed, inputting instruction information for indicating the position of the portion of the displayed text portion that the operator is reading, and the like. A document is displayed on the display section 3, which has a function of displaying not only character strings but also graphic images. Furthermore, it is comprised of a control section 4 that controls each of these sections.

Furthermore, the control section 4 has a main control function 5 as shown in FIG.
0, a processing section 41 consisting of an input position analysis function 51, a document reading function 52, a writing function 53, and a display function 54, a document data section 43 of a document consisting of text and figures, and further displaying this document data on a display screen. It consists of a correspondence table 42 that associates the position on the display screen when the document is displayed with the address of the document data section 43. The display function 54 is composed of a text display function 60, a graphic display function 61, and an image display function 62.

Next, the movements of these parts will be explained in detail.

First, the name of the document to be displayed is input through the input section 2.

This input document name is transferred from the main control function 50 to the document reading function 52, and the document reading function 52 searches the document storage section l for a document corresponding to this document name and writes it into the document data section 43. Next, the main control function 50 instructs the display function 54 to initially display the first page of the document data section 43. Accordingly, the display function 54 displays only the first negative text section of the document data section 43 on the display section 3 as an initial display. At this point, a display screen as shown in FIG. 3 is obtained. Here, the figure/area 31 is an area in which figures are sequentially displayed as the text to be displayed is read. Next, while reading the text displayed on the display screen, the operator moves the cursor from the input unit 2 to indicate the part he is reading, and sequentially moves the cursor to the reading position. This cursor position information is read into the main control function 50 and transferred to the manual position analysis function 51. The input position analysis function 51 uses the Conocursor position information to refer to the correspondence table 42 to find out which sentence it corresponds to. From the relevant text, the address of the document data section 43 in which the corresponding graphic data to be displayed is stored is extracted. This extracted address is returned to the main control function 50, and the main control function 5o
determines whether this extracted address has already been displayed, and if it is an undisplayed address, instructs the display function 54 to partially display this address.

The display function 54 extracts display data, here graphic display data, from the designated address of the document data section 43 and displays it on the display section 3. The display screen at this time is shown in FIG.

This example shows that "There is a vast grassland" has been specified and read. When the cursor points to the "wide" position, the figure in Figure 4 is displayed. Next, as the cursor moves sequentially from "to" to "to", the input position analysis function 51 from this position returns the same address to the main control function 50 that was obtained at the "wide" position. , at this time, it is determined that the cursor has already been displayed, and the main control function 50 reads the next cursor position. In this way, the main control function 50 sequentially reads the position of the two cranes, and when it reaches the "grass" position, an address different from the previous address is passed to the input position analysis function 51. Here, the main control function 50 passes this address to the display function 54 and instructs it to partially display it. Here, the display function 54 displays the next figure. The display screen at this time is shown in FIG. In this way, when it is specified that the entire text has been read, a display as shown in FIG. 6 is displayed.

The document data section 43 is divided into an initial display data section 71 and a sequential display data section 72 that should be displayed in association with the initial display data section 71 when the initial display data section 71 is instructed, as shown in FIG. Furthermore, the initial display data section 71 is
It is composed of a plurality of display data blocks 80, and each block 80 has pointer information 90 that points to specific display data in the sequential display data section 72, and is used to sequentially extract the display data. A data end code is given at the end of the sequential display data, and the data up to this end code is sequentially extracted and displayed as display data.The flow of the above function is shown in FIG.

In the modified embodiment, the position of the text being read is designated by sequentially moving the cursor, but the following method may also be considered as a method for this designation.

1) Instead of moving the cursor sequentially, simply indicate the position of the beginning of the sentence with the cursor. According to this instruction, how to display # (shape) in relation to that one sentence.

2) It is assumed that the text is read at a constant speed, and pictures (
How to display (shapes).

The apparatus of the present invention can also be achieved using the method described above.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the constituent elements of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing the control unit in detail, and Figs. 3 to 6 show examples of screen displays when sentences are read in sequence. 7 is a diagram showing the specific structure of the text data section, and FIG. 8 is a flowchart of the functions of this device. 1 Document storage unit 52...Input unit 3/Display unit 4 Control unit 41/Processing unit 31 Graphic area 50 Main control function 60 Text display function 51-Manual position analysis function 61-Graph display/groove function 52 Document reading function 62 Image display function 53... document writing function i
x・Initial display data section 54...Display function 72
・Sequentially display data section 42-4 as table 8o・
Display data block 43...Document data section 9o...
・Pointer information agent Patent attorney Kensuke Chika (and 1 other person) Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 ′＠ "-- Figure 7

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A document storage unit that stores and stores documents consisting of text, figures, images, etc., a display unit that displays the document, an instruction unit that instructs a part of the text displayed on the display unit, and a control unit that controls these. As usual, a document consists of a part that is displayed first and a part that is displayed sequentially according to subsequent instructions. The entire document is displayed by displaying documents related to the specified document on the display section, repeating the above operation, sequentially specifying the first displayed part, and sequentially displaying the related documents. A dynamic document display device characterized by: (2) Only the text section is displayed at the beginning of the document.
Then by indicating this text section