KR20160009898A - Method and appratus for designating interest page of electronic document - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for designating an interest page of an electronic document, more particularly relates to a method and an apparatus for designating a page including information needed by a user of pages of an electronic document read on a terminal as an interest page, and outputting rapidly the page corresponding to the interest page on a display area of the terminal without extra operation processing. The method of designating the interest page of the electronic document comprises: designating one or more pages selected from at least one page of the electronic document displayed on the terminal as the interest page; storing data of the interest page in a temporary memory area, so that the interest page can be outputted without extra operation processing, according to the request of a user, in the event that corresponding page is designated as the interest page; and calling and displaying the interest page from the temporary memory area when the request or outputting the interest page is received according as an interest page mode is set. The method and the apparatus for designating the interest page of the electronic document designate the page including the information needed by the user of the pages of the electronic document as the interest page and output rapidly the page corresponding to the interest page on the display area of the terminal without extra operation processing, thereby providing convenience of the user and enhancing accessibility to corresponding page.

Description

[0001] METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESIGNATING INTEREST PAGE OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT [0002]

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for designating an interested page of an electronic document, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for designating a page including information required by a user among pages of an electronic document called on the terminal, To a method and an apparatus for quickly outputting data on a display area of a terminal without performing an arithmetic processing of the data.

As the amount of information explosively increases and the speed of change increases, more and more electronic documents are used to convey their thoughts or share information. As electronic document programs for creating such electronic documents, In a personal computer (PC) including a notebook computer, a word, an Excel, and a PowerPoint included in an office program group of Microsoft are mainly used. Recent developments in the mobile industry have also attracted a great deal of attention from programs belonging to the Polaris Office® family of Infraware®, which can be used on smart phone or tablet computers. have.

Conventionally, electronic documents created through such electronic document programs use various effects in order to efficiently transfer information. In many cases, a large amount of information is included in one electronic document, There is a problem that the page of the electronic document including the unnecessary information should be repeatedly skipped even if the information contained in the electronic document is limited. In the case of a portable terminal such as a smart phone, since the display area is small and the provision of a user interface (UI) for skipping a large number of pages is limited, a specific page of the electronic document including a large number of pages It is often the case that it is a limiting factor for smooth use.

Accordingly, there is a need to develop a method and apparatus for quickly outputting only a page containing information required by a user on a display area of the terminal in utilizing an electronic document.

[Related Technical Literature]

One. Method and apparatus for selecting and displaying a region of interest in an electronic document (Korean Patent Application No. 2009-7008190)

A problem to be solved by the present invention is to designate a page containing information required by a user among pages of electronic documents called on a terminal as a page of interest and output the page to the display area of the terminal quickly without performing any arithmetic processing Thereby providing convenience for the user.

Another problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for displaying a page of an electronic document called on a portable terminal having a limited size of a display area such as a smart phone and providing a user interface (UI) A page including information required by a user is designated as a page of interest and is quickly output to improve accessibility to the page.

The problems of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned problems, and other problems not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for designating an electronic document interest page, the method comprising: designating one or more pages selected from one or more pages of an electronic document called on a terminal as an interest page; Storing the data of the page of interest in the temporary memory area so that it can be output without requiring a separate operation process at the request of the user and when a request is issued to cause the page of interest mode to be called and output the page of interest , And calling and displaying the page of interest from the temporary memory area.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the page mode of interest is characterized in that when the page mode of interest is called, the electronic document is newly composed only of the page of interest.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the interested page mode is characterized by generating a user interface (UI) that allows a user to select and output a page of interest when a page mode of interest is called.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a page of interest is characterized by being able to be designated and released even when the page mode of interest is called.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable medium including a set of instructions for specifying a page of interest in an electronic document according to the present invention, The page of interest is designated as a page of interest and if the page is designated as a page of interest, the data of the page of interest is stored in the temporary memory area so that it can be output without a separate computation process according to the user's request, And a set of instructions to cause the page of interest to be called from the temporary memory area and displayed when a request to output the page is received.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the page mode of interest is characterized in that when the page mode of interest is called, the electronic document is newly composed only of the page of interest.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the interested page mode is characterized by generating a user interface (UI) that allows a user to select and output a page of interest when a page mode of interest is called.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a page of interest is characterized by being able to be designated and released even when the page mode of interest is called.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic document interest page designation apparatus including: a display unit capable of outputting information included in an electronic document; A communication unit for receiving selection of a page of interest from a user and an output request of a page of interest; A storage unit for storing data of a page of interest; And one or more pages of one or more pages of the electronic document called on the terminal are designated as interest pages by the communication unit, and when designated as a page of interest, A control unit for storing data of a page of interest in a storage unit and calling a page of interest from a storage unit and displaying a page of interest on a display unit when a request for displaying a page of interest through a communication unit is received; .

According to the electronic document interest page designation method and apparatus of the present invention, a page including information required by a user among pages of an electronic document called on a terminal is designated as a page of interest, So that the convenience of the user can be provided.

According to the method and apparatus for specifying an electronic document interest page of the present invention, it is possible to reduce the size of a display area such as a smart phone and make a call on a portable terminal having a limited user interface (UI) A page including information required by a user is designated as a page of interest and is quickly output, thereby improving the accessibility to the page.

The effects according to the present invention are not limited by the contents exemplified above, and more various effects are included in the specification.

1 shows a schematic configuration of an electronic document interest page assignment algorithm according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method of specifying an electronic document interest page according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 illustrates a procedure for outputting a page of interest according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figures 4A and 4B illustrate an embodiment of a page of interest and an interesting page mode of an electronic document according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 illustrates an embodiment of an electronic document interest page mode according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention, and the manner of achieving them, will be apparent from and elucidated with reference to the embodiments described hereinafter in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. Is provided to fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art, and the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims.

Although the first, second, etc. are used to describe various components, it goes without saying that these components are not limited by these terms. These terms are used only to distinguish one component from another. Therefore, it is needless to say that the first component mentioned below may be the second component within the technical spirit of the present invention.

In the drawings, the same reference numerals are used for the same elements in different drawings unless otherwise indicated.

It is to be understood that each of the features of the various embodiments of the present invention may be combined or combined with each other partially or entirely and technically various interlocking and driving is possible as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, It may be possible to cooperate with each other in association.

As used herein, an electronic document means information transmitted, received or stored in an electronic form by an information processing system, and may be used in electronic form or printed. The electronic document is composed of word (Word), Excel (Word), PowerPoint (PowerPoint) included in Microsoft's Office program group, Hancom Office of Korean and computer company, Acrobat of Adobe ), As well as electronic documents created using a PC-based document editing program, such as Infraware (R)), which can be used in smartphone or tablet computers according to the recent development of the mobile industry And may include electronic documents generated by programs of the Polaris Office® family. In addition, the electronic document includes structured electronic documents such as HTML, XML, and SGML. If the electronic document is created in an electronic form and transmitted, received, or stored, the memo, moving image, can see.

Various embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 shows a schematic configuration of an electronic document interest page assignment algorithm according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, an apparatus 100 (hereinafter, referred to as 'electronic document interest page designation apparatus') for performing an electronic document interest page designation algorithm according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication unit 110, a control unit 120, A storage unit 130, and a display unit 140.

The electronic document interest page designation apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may be included in or connected to a device such as a computer, a smart phone, a note pad, a notebook, and a tablet PC, have.

The communication unit 110 receives all the inputs from the user, such as the selection of a specific page of the electronic document and the output request of a specific page, and transmits the input to the control unit 120 to be described later. In addition, when the display unit 140 to be described later is a touch screen display for detecting a touch input, the communication unit 110 may also serve as the display unit 140.

The manner in which the input by the user is applied may differ depending on the type of electronic document interest page designation apparatus 100. [ A mouse or a keyboard may be used on a PC basis, and a user's finger or a stylus may be used on a device having a touch screen display. At this time, the input on the touch screen display can be used not only in a state in which the user physically touches the touch screen display with a finger or an input tool such as a stylus, but also in a state of floating contact Lt; / RTI >

The control unit 120 controls the designation, storage, and output of a page of interest, which will be described later, by performing an operation such as executing a program or a set of instructions stored in a memory based on a user's input or the like received via the communication unit 110 . The control unit 120 may include at least one processor and a memory, and the plurality of processors may be configured to share memory with one another. A memory stores a program or a set of instructions, and the memory can be a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), a magnetic disk device, an optical disk device, And the like.

The storage unit 130 may store data processed by the control unit 120, include at least one memory, or may have a form of a temporarily formed memory area allocated to a part of the memory.

The display unit 140 displays data processed by the control unit 120 to the user as visual information, and includes a touch screen display. When the display unit 140 is a touch screen display, the display unit 140 may include a display panel unit for displaying information and a touch screen panel unit for receiving a control signal. In addition to displaying information on the touch screen display, Or may receive a signal for controlling the communication unit 100, and may also perform the role of the communication unit 110 described above. In addition, the display unit 140 may be implemented to be connected to the electronic document interest page designation apparatus 100 in a wired or wireless manner.

1, the communication unit 110, the control unit 120, the storage unit 130, and the display unit 140 are shown as separate components for convenience of description. However, in the implementation of the present invention, . It may also be configured as a part of a document editing application capable of editing an electronic document.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method of specifying an electronic document interest page according to an embodiment of the present invention. For convenience of explanation, reference will be made to FIG.

First, the communication unit 110 selects one or more pages of the called electronic document on the terminal from the user (S200), and transmits the page to the controller 120. [

A user can select a page to be designated as a target page to be described later containing information required by a user from among one or more pages of an electronic document called on the terminal, and can collectively select a plurality of pages through various input methods, A plurality of pages may be sequentially selected.

Upon receiving the information about the page selected by the user through the communication unit 110, the control unit 120 designates the page selected by the user as a page of interest (S210).

The page of interest is a page containing information required by the user, which is selected by the user from the pages of the electronic document.

The control unit 120 may designate a plurality of pages collectively as an interested page when the user collectively selects a plurality of pages according to an input method of a user who selects a page to be designated as a page of interest, Are sequentially selected, the page can be designated as a page of interest sequentially.

For example, the user can collectively select pages 2 to 5 of the pages of the electronic document composed of 20 pages to designate the page as a page of interest, select 2 pages, select 5 pages, You can select each page to be sequenced to the page of interest, such as selecting 20 pages.

The controller 120 designates a page selected by the user as a page of interest (S210), and stores the data of the page of interest in the temporary memory area (S220).

The temporary memory area is a memory area for storing data of a page of interest in a form that can be directly output without performing any arithmetic processing, and can be implemented in the form of a cache memory.

The storage unit 130 of the electronic document interest page designation apparatus 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be implemented in the form of a temporary memory region. However, the division of the memory region is performed in a virtual space called a memory region Although it is an arbitrary definition for describing the algorithm of the present invention, even if the temporary memory area is expressed as an independent object called the storage part 130, it is a division of the processing in which the algorithm is performed and must be composed of independent memory areas, The embodiment in which the present invention is embodied is not limited.

The control unit 120 may perform rendering to convert a page of interest into a form that can be output without performing additional arithmetic processing and generate or store the data in a temporary memory area, It is possible to display the corresponding page on the display unit 140 immediately.

The data stored in the temporary memory area is maintained until the designation of the page of interest for the page is released. When the page of interest mode is called and an output request for the page of interest is received, the control unit 120 outputs And displays the requested page on the display unit 140 (S230).

The interested page mode is a mode in which a configuration or an output interface of a page included in an electronic document is changed so that a user can select one or more pages included in the electronic document and easily display or output a designated interest page on the display unit 140 .

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the interested page mode is called, the control unit 120 can newly reconfigure the electronic document with only the interested page.

For example, if 2 pages and 19 pages of an electronic document composed of 20 pages are designated as a page of interest, when the page mode of interest is called, the electronic document is composed of two pages including only 2 pages and 19 pages And can be reconfigured as a page mode electronic document of interest. In this case, the electronic document consisting of two pages does not mean that the electronic document is a virtual configuration of the electronic document provided in the interested page mode, and that the page not designated as the interested page is deleted.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, when the interested page mode is called, the controller 120 may generate a user interface (UI) that allows a user to select and output a page of interest.

For example, if pages 2 and 19 of a page of an electronic document composed of 20 pages are designated as a page of interest, when an interesting page mode is called, an interface such as a pop-up window displaying a list of pages of interest , A new page movement interface may be created to display only the page of interest.

FIG. 3 illustrates a process diagram for outputting a page of interest according to an embodiment of the present invention. Will be described with reference to Fig. 1 for convenience of explanation.

When the control unit 120 receives an output request for a page of an electronic document not designated as a page of interest through the communication unit 110, the control unit 120 performs rendering to convert the page into an outputable form, And stores it in the storage unit 130, and data for the corresponding page is generated in the storage unit 130. When the data is generated, the control unit 120 calls the corresponding data from the storage unit 130 and outputs the data to the display unit 140.

3, when the control unit 120 designates one or more pages of the electronic document as the interested page (S310), unlike the output of the page of the electronic document not designated as the interest page described above, the output S320 is performed irrespective of the request or not and stored in the storage unit 130 in operation S325 and data on the corresponding page in the storage unit 130 is generated in operation S330. When the control unit 120 receives the output request for the page of interest through the communication unit 110 in operation S341, the control unit 120 transmits the output request to the storage unit 130 in operation S342, The stored data is immediately called (S343) and outputted to the display unit 140 (S344). At this time, the control unit 120 transmits an output request to the storage unit 130 in step S342, and the step of calling the data in step S343 is substantially the same as the call of the corresponding data to the storage unit 130 of the control unit 120 It can be done by request alone.

As shown in FIG. 3, in the process of receiving an output request for a page designated as a page of interest and outputting the page (S340), unlike the process of outputting a page of an electronic document not designated as a page of interest, (Step S343). If the output request is received (S341), the data is called (S343) and the display unit 140 (S344).

Figures 4A and 4B illustrate an embodiment of a page of interest and an interesting page mode of an electronic document according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4A, when a page corresponding to the second page, the third page, and the 20th page among the pages of the electronic document 400 composed of 20 pages is selected and designated as a page of interest, The electronic document 400 can be reconfigured with the interested page mode electronic document 410 consisting of only the page, the third page, and the 20 pages.

As shown in FIG. 4B, the page mode of interest is invoked, so that in the interested page mode electronic document 410 consisting of only 2 pages, 3 pages, and 20 pages, 3 pages can be selected to release the page of interest, The interested page mode electronic document 410 can be reconfigured into the interested page mode electronic document 420 consisting of only 2 pages and 20 pages.

That is, the user can call the interested page mode by selecting or releasing the page to be designated as the interested page, or may select the page to be designated as the interested page or add the interested page, even when the interested page mode is called.

5 illustrates an embodiment of an electronic document interest page mode according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5A, when an electronic document is called in the terminal 500 and one page is displayed in the display area of the terminal and only two pages and twenty pages of the electronic document are selected as the interested page, At the time of the call, the two pages selected as the page of interest are displayed in the display area of the terminal, and a new page movement interface 520 is created to display only the page of interest, and the interface menu 525 When selected, 20 pages corresponding to the next page among the interested pages are selected and displayed in the display area of the terminal.

As described above with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5, the process of designating and outputting a page of interest in an electronic document according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a process of temporarily displaying a page designated as a page of interest, By storing the page in the memory area, when the user needs a page designated as a page of interest, the user can quickly output the page without performing special computation processing and provides a user interface such as a page mode of interest, thereby improving accessibility to a page of interest.

Each block of the accompanying block diagrams and combinations of steps of the flowchart may be performed by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be loaded into a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus so that the instructions, which may be executed by a processor of a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, And means for performing the functions described in each step are created. These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer usable or computer readable memory capable of directing a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to implement the functionality in a particular manner so that the computer usable or computer readable memory It is also possible for the instructions stored in the block diagram to produce a manufacturing item containing instruction means for performing the functions described in each block or flowchart of the block diagram. Computer program instructions may also be stored on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment so that a series of operating steps may be performed on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment to create a computer- It is also possible that the instructions that perform the processing equipment provide the steps for executing the functions described in each block of the block diagram and at each step of the flowchart.

In this specification, each block may represent a portion of a module, segment, or code that includes one or more executable instructions for executing the specified logical function (s). It should also be noted that in some alternative implementations, the functions mentioned in the blocks may occur out of order. For example, two blocks shown in succession may actually be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be performed in reverse order according to the corresponding function.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied directly in hardware, in a software module executed by a processor, or in a combination of the two. The software module may reside in a RAM memory, a flash memory, a ROM memory, an EPROM memory, an EEPROM memory, a register, a hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor, which is capable of reading information from, and writing information to, the storage medium. Alternatively, the storage medium may be integral with the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside within an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC may reside within the user terminal. Alternatively, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention but to limit the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

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Claims (9)

Designating one or more pages selected from one or more pages of an electronic document called on a terminal as a page of interest;
Storing the data of the page of interest in a temporary memory area so that the page of interest can be output without a separate operation process according to a user's request when the page is designated as the interested page; And
Invoking and displaying the interest page from the temporary memory area when a request to page the interest page mode is invoked to output the interest page. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the interest page mode is configured to newly configure the electronic document with only the interest page when the interest page mode is called. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the interest page mode generates a user interface (UI) that allows a user to select and output the interest page when the interest page mode is called, . The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the interest page is assignable and can be released even when the interest page mode is invoked. Designating one or more pages selected from one or more pages of the electronic document called on the terminal as the interested page,
Storing the data of the page of interest in a temporary memory area so that the page of interest can be output without a separate operation process according to a user's request,
And a set of instructions to cause the page of interest to be called from the temporary memory area to display, when a request is received to cause the page of interest page to be called to output the page of interest. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the interest page mode newly configures the electronic document only with the interest page when the interest page mode is called. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the interest page mode generates a user interface (UI) that allows the user to select and output the page of interest when the interest page mode is called. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the page of interest is assignable and can be released even when the page of interest mode is invoked. A display unit capable of outputting information including an electronic document;
A communication unit for receiving a request for a page of interest from the user and an output request for the page of interest;
A storage unit for storing data of the page of interest; And
Designates one or more pages selected from the one or more pages of the electronic document called on the terminal as the interested page, and outputs the one or more pages selected by the communication unit as the interested page, Storing the data of the page of interest in the storage unit and, when a request is received to call the page of interest through the communication unit to output the page of interest, A control unit for displaying on the display unit; And an electronic document interest page designation device.

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