US20140310585A1 - Browsing system, terminal, image server, program, computer-readable recording medium storing program, and method - Google Patents

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US20140310585A1 US14/114,101 US201214114101A US2014310585A1 US 20140310585 A1 US20140310585 A1 US 20140310585A1 US 201214114101 A US201214114101 A US 201214114101A US 2014310585 A1 US2014310585 A1 US 2014310585A1
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  • the present invention relates to a browsing system, terminal, image server, program, computer-readable recording medium storing a program, and a method.
  • a banner system has been known from before such that after a banner selection request is received when displaying a Web page, when banner data generated in response to that request is received, a banner is displayed on that Web page based on that banner data (for example, see Patent Literature 1).
  • Patent Literature 1 the problem exists that, for example, when undertaking a transformation such as a translation, for example of a Web page and/or the like, character strings comprising text contained in the document are transformed, but characters or character strings displayed as images such as banners contained in that document (characters or character strings that are integrated within images) are not transformed.
  • a transformation such as a translation
  • characters or character strings displayed as images such as banners contained in that document (characters or character strings that are integrated within images) are not transformed.
  • the present invention was made in view of such a problem and has an objective of eliminating the defect of characters or character strings displayed as images not being transformed when undertaking a transformation such as translation and/or the like.
  • the browsing system is a browsing system comprising a terminal for displaying text character strings of a document and an image acquired based on image location information contained in that document, and an image server for receiving an image request and transmitting a corresponding image response to a transmission source of that image request, wherein
  • the terminal comprises:
  • an additional information extraction part for extracting additional information specifying characters or character strings that should be added to an image whose location is indicated by the image location information contained in the document, from text character strings to be transformed that are contained in the document or a program specified by the document;
  • an image location information generation part for generating new image location information specifying the image server as a request destination and specifying an image parameter that designates the extracted additional information
  • the image server comprises:
  • an image generation part for generating an image to which are added characters or character strings specified by additional information designated by an image parameter specified in the image request, being an image transmitted to the terminal as an image response corresponding to the image request specifying the image parameter specified in the new image location information and transmitted from the terminal.
  • the browsing system according to the first aspect may be such that:
  • background information identifying a background image is described on the document or the program specified by the document;
  • the image location information generation part of the terminal generates new image location information further specifying a background parameter designating the background information
  • the image generation part of the image server generates an image in which characters or character strings specified by the additional information designated by the image parameter are added to a background image identified by the background information designated by the background parameter.
  • the browsing system according to the first aspect may be such that:
  • style information indicating a style with which the characters or character strings specified by the additional information are added to an image is described on the document or the program specified by the document;
  • the image location information generation part of the terminal generates new image location information further specifying a style parameter designating the style information
  • the image generation part of the image server generates an image to which characters or character strings specified by additional information designated by the image parameter are added to a background image identified by background information designated by the background parameter, with the style designated by the style parameter.
  • the browsing system according to the first aspect may be such that:
  • image location information prior to being overwritten by the overwriting part of the terminal contains background information identifying a background image
  • the image location information generation part of the terminal generates new image location information containing background information contained in the image location information prior to being overwritten
  • the image generation part of the image server generates an image to which characters or character strings specified by additional information designated by the image parameter specified in the image request in which the background information contained in the new image location information is further specified, are added to a background image identified by the background information.
  • the browsing system according to the first aspect may be such that:
  • HTML HyperText Markup Language
  • image location information contained in the document is indicated by an src attribute of an img tag
  • the browsing system according to the first aspect may be such that:
  • HTML HyperText Markup Language
  • image location information contained in the document is indicated by an src attribute of an img tag
  • image location information is described by text surrounded by tags having a class attribute or an id attribute associated with the img tag.
  • the method according to a second aspect of the present invention is a browsing method executed by a browsing system comprising a terminal for displaying text character strings of a document and an image acquired based on image location information contained in that document, and an image server for receiving an image request and transmitting a corresponding image response to a transmission source of that image request, this browsing method including:
  • an additional information extraction step in which the terminal extracts additional information specifying characters or character strings that should be added to an image whose location is indicated by the image location information contained in the document, from text character strings to be transformed that are contained in the document or a program specified by the document;
  • an image location information generation step in which the terminal generates new image location information specifying the image server as a request destination and specifying an image parameter that designates the extracted additional information; and, an overwriting step in which the terminal overwrites the image location information associated with the extract additional information in the document with the new image location information generated;
  • an image generation step in which the image server generates an image to which are added characters or character strings specified by additional information designated by an image parameter specified in the image request, being an image transmitted to the terminal as an image response corresponding to the image request specifying the image parameter specified in the new image location information and transmitted from the terminal.
  • the terminal is a terminal for displaying text character strings of a document and an image acquired based on image location information contained in that document, this terminal comprising:
  • an additional information extraction part for extracting additional information specifying characters or character strings that should be added to an image whose location is indicated by the image location information contained in the document, from text character strings to be transformed that are contained in the document or a program specified by the document;
  • an image location information generation part for generating new image location information specifying the image server as a request destination and specifying an image parameter that designates the extracted additional information
  • an image request transmission part for transmitting image requests specified by the image parameter specified in the new image location information.
  • the program according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is a program executed by a computer for displaying text character strings of a document and an image acquired based on image location information contained in that document before acquiring this image, the program being specified by the document and causing the computer to function as:
  • an additional information extraction part for extracting additional information specifying characters or character strings that should be added to an image whose location is indicated by the image location information contained in the document, from text character strings to be transformed that are contained in the document or the program;
  • an image location information generation part for generating new image location information specifying the image server as a request destination and specifying an image parameter that designates the extracted additional information
  • an image request transmission part for transmitting image requests specified by the image parameter specified in the new image location information.
  • the program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium is a computer-readable recording medium on which is recorded a program executed by a computer for displaying text character strings of a document and an image acquired based on image location information contained in that document before acquiring this image, the program being specified by the document and causing the computer to function as:
  • an additional information extraction part for extracting additional information specifying characters or character strings that should be added to an image whose location is indicated by the image location information contained in the document, from text character strings to be transformed that are contained in the document or the program;
  • an image location information generation part for generating new image location information specifying the image server as a request destination and specifying an image parameter that designates the extracted additional information
  • an image request transmission part for transmitting image requests specified by the image parameter specified in the new image location information.
  • the method according to a sixth aspect of the present invention is a method executed by a terminal for displaying text character strings of a document and an image acquired based on image location information contained in that document, this method including:
  • an additional information extraction step for extracting additional information specifying characters or character strings that should be added to an image whose location is indicated by the image location information contained in the document, from text character strings to be transformed that are contained in the document or a program specified by the document;
  • an image location information generation step for generating new image location information specifying the image server as a request destination and specifying an image parameter that designates the extracted additional information
  • an image request transmission step for transmitting image requests specified by the image parameter specified in the new image location information.
  • the image server is an image server capable of communicating with a terminal for displaying text character strings of a document and an image acquired based on image location information contained in that document, this image server comprising:
  • an image request receiving part for receiving image requests transmitted from the terminal, this terminal comprising an additional information extraction part for extracting additional information specifying characters or character strings that should be added to an image whose location is indicated by the image location information contained in the document, from text character strings to be transformed that are contained in the document or a program specified by the document, an image location information generation part for generating new image location information specifying the image server as a request destination and specifying an image parameter that designates the extracted additional information, and an overwriting part for overwriting the image location information associated with the extracted additional information in the document with the new image location information generated, these image requests specified by the image parameter specified in the new image location information;
  • an image generation part for generating images to which are added characters or character strings specified by the additional information designated by the image parameter specified in the received image request;
  • an image response transmission part for transmitting the generated images as an image response to the terminal that is the transmission source of the received image request.
  • the program according to an eighth aspect of the present invention is a program executed by a computer capable of communicating with a terminal for displaying text character strings of a document and an image acquired based on image location information contained in that document, the program causing the computer to function as:
  • an image request receiving part for receiving image requests transmitted from the terminal, this terminal comprising an additional information extraction part for extracting additional information specifying characters or character strings that should be added to an image whose location is indicated by the image location information contained in the document, from text character strings to be transformed that are contained in the document or a program specified by the document, an image location information generation part for generating new image location information specifying the image server as a request destination and specifying an image parameter that designates the extracted additional information, and an overwriting part for overwriting the image location information associated with the extracted additional information in the document with the new image location information generated, these image requests specified by the image parameter specified in the new image location information;
  • an image generation part for generating images to which are added characters or character strings specified by the additional information designated by the image parameter specified in the received image request;
  • an image response transmission part for transmitting the generated images as an image response to the terminal that is the transmission source of the received image request.
  • the program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium is a computer-readable recording medium on which is recorded a program executed by a computer capable of communicating with a terminal for displaying text character strings of a document and an image acquired based on image location information contained in that document, the program causing the computer to function as:
  • an image request receiving part for receiving image requests transmitted from the terminal, this terminal comprising an additional information extraction part for extracting additional information specifying characters or character strings that should be added to an image whose location is indicated by the image location information contained in the document, from text character strings to be transformed that are contained in the document or a program specified by the document, an image location information generation part for generating new image location information specifying the image server as a request destination and specifying an image parameter that designates the extracted additional information, and an overwriting part for overwriting the image location information associated with the extracted additional information in the document with the new image location information generated, these image requests specified by the image parameter specified in the new image location information;
  • an image generation part for generating images to which are added characters or character strings specified by the additional information designated by the image parameter specified in the received image request;
  • an image response transmission part for transmitting the generated images as an image response to the terminal that is the transmission source of the received image request.
  • the method according to a tenth aspect of the present invention is a method executed by an image server capable of communicating with a terminal for displaying text character strings of a document and an image acquired based on image location information contained in that document, this method including:
  • an image request receiving step for receiving image requests transmitted from the terminal, this terminal comprising an additional information extraction part for extracting additional information specifying characters or character strings that should be added to an image whose location is indicated by the image location information contained in the document, from text character strings to be transformed that are contained in the document or a program specified by the document, an image location information generation part for generating new image location information specifying the image server as a request destination and specifying an image parameter that designates the extracted additional information, and an overwriting part for overwriting the image location information associated with the extracted additional information in the document with the new image location information generated, these image requests specified by the image parameter specified in the new image location information;
  • an image generation step for generating images to which are added characters or character strings specified by the additional information designated by the image parameter specified in the received image request;
  • an image response transmission step for transmitting the generated images as an image response to the terminal that is the transmission source of the received image request.
  • the browsing system is a browsing system comprising a terminal, a document server, an image server and a transformation server, wherein:
  • the terminal comprises:
  • a document location information accepting part for accepting input of first document location information
  • a terminal-side document request transmission part for transmitting a first document request specifying a first parameter specified in the first document location information, to the transformation server specified as a request destination in the first document location information accepted;
  • a terminal-side document response receiving part for receiving, from the transformation server, a first document response in concert with the first document request
  • an image location information extraction part for extracting image location information contained in the first document on which the program is executed
  • an image request transmission part for transmitting an image request specifying an image parameter specified in the image location information to the image server specified as a request destination in the extracted image location information
  • an image response receiving part for receiving an image response in concert with the image request, from the image server
  • a document display for displaying text character strings of the first document on which the program is executed, and images received as the image response;
  • the transformation server comprises:
  • a transformation server-side document request receiving part for receiving the first document request
  • a document location information extraction part for extracting second document location information designated by the first parameter specified in the first document request that was received
  • a transformation server-side document request transmission part for transmitting a second document request specifying the second parameter specified in the second document location information, to the document server specified as a request destination in the extracted second document location information;
  • a transformation server-side document response receiving part for receiving, from the document server, a second document response in concert with the second document request
  • a transformation part for implementing a prescribed transformation process on text character strings contained in a second document received as the second document response, and through this transforming the second document into the first document;
  • a transformation server-side document response transmission part for transmitting the first document after transformation by the transformation process as the first document response to the terminal that is the transmission source of the received first document request;
  • the document server comprises:
  • a document server-side document response transmission part for transmitting the second document designated by the second parameter specified in the received second document request as the second document response to the transformation server that is the transmission source of the received second document request;
  • the image server comprises:
  • an image generation part for generating an image to which are added characters or character strings specified by the additional information specified by the image parameter specified in the received image request;
  • an image response transmission part for transmitting the generated image as an image response to the terminal that is the transmission source of the received image request
  • the document location information accepting part of the terminal accepts the first document location information specifying the first parameter designating “the second document location information specifying the second parameter designating the required second document, with the document server as the request destination”, with the transformation server as the request destination;
  • the program specified in the second document received as the second document response transmitted from the document server causes the program executor of the terminal to function as:
  • an additional information extraction part for extracting additional information specifying the characters or character strings that should be added to the image whose location is expressed by the image location information contained in that document, from the document that is the execution target of the program containing the first document and the second document or text character strings that are the target of transformation contained in the program specified by that document;
  • an image location information generation part for generating new image location information specifying an image parameter designating extracted additional information, with the image server specified as the request destination;
  • an image is output, added to which is additional information (characters or character strings) extracted from a text character string that is a transformation target. That is to say, when a document is not transformed, an image is output to which are added untransformed characters or character strings extracted from the untransformed original text character string, and when a document is transformed, an image is output to which are added transformed characters or character strings extracted from a post-transformation text character string. Accordingly, with the present invention the defect of characters or character strings contained in an image not being transformed when a transformation such as translation is undertaken is eliminated.
  • FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing one configuration example of a browsing system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 2A is a drawing showing one example of a pre-transformation document
  • FIG. 2B is a drawing showing one example of a post-transformation document
  • FIG. 3 is a hardware configuration diagram showing one example of the configuration of a terminal
  • FIG. 4A is a flowchart showing one example of a post-transformation document display process executed by the terminal
  • FIG. 4B is a flowchart showing one example of a transformation process executed by a transformation server
  • FIG. 4C is a flowchart showing one example of a document transmission process executed by a document server
  • FIG. 4D is a flowchart showing one example of an image transmission process executed by an image server
  • FIG. 5A is a function block diagram showing one example of functions exhibited by the terminal.
  • FIG. 5B is a function block diagram showing one example of functions exhibited by the transformation server
  • FIG. 5C is a function block diagram showing one example of functions exhibited by the document server
  • FIG. 5D is a function block diagram showing one example of functions exhibited by the image server
  • FIG. 6A is a drawing showing one example of document information of the pre-transformation document
  • FIG. 6B is a drawing showing one example of document information of the post-transformation document
  • FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing one example of an image location information change process executed by the terminal.
  • FIG. 8A is a flowchart showing one example of a pre-transformation document display process executed by the terminal
  • FIG. 8B is a flowchart showing another example of a document transmission process executed by the document server.
  • FIG. 8C is a flowchart showing another example of an image transmission process executed by the image server.
  • a browsing system 1 is composed of a computer communication network 10 (hereafter called simply a communication network), a terminal 100 , an image server 200 , a document server 300 and a transformation server 400 , as shown in FIG. 1 .
  • a computer communication network 10 hereafter called simply a communication network
  • terminal 100 a terminal 100
  • image server 200 a document server 300
  • transformation server 400 a transformation server
  • the communication network 10 is composed, for example, of the Internet.
  • the communication network 10 may also be a LAN (Local Area Network) or a public circuit network.
  • the image server 200 Before describing the terminal 100 , the image server 200 , the document server 300 and the transformation server 400 will be described.
  • the image server 200 stores multiple image IDs identifying images and image information represent those images, associating such with each other.
  • the document server 300 stores document information represents a document describing images stored on the image sever 200 and text explaining those images, and document path information expressing relative paths of that document information, associating such with each other.
  • This document information includes information expressing text and image location information expressing the location of the images.
  • the text expressed by text information stored by the document server 300 is Web pages written in HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
  • HTML HyperText Markup Language
  • this is intended to be illustrative and not limiting, for it would be fine for the document to be expressed in another markup language such as XML (eXtensible Markup Language), for example.
  • the transformation server 400 transforms documents (hereafter referred to as pre-transformation documents) by executing a prescribed transformation process on the text character strings of documents expressed by input document information, and outputs document information expressing the transformed document (hereafter referred to as post-transformation documents).
  • the prescribed transformation process executed by the transformation server is explained as a translation process, but this is intended to be illustrative and not limiting, for it would be fine for this to be a process that encrypts unencrypted documents, for example, or to be a process that deciphers encrypted documents.
  • the terminal 100 is described as comprising a personal computer, but it would be fine for this to comprise a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) or a cell phone.
  • PDA Personal Digital Assistant
  • document location information expressing the location of the pre-transformation document which contains text character strings and an image MI to which characters or character strings are added (in other words expressed) is input into the terminal.
  • a language specified by the user hereafter referred to a “specified language”
  • translation commands commanding translation of a document at a location expressed by the input document location information into the specified language are input into the terminal 100 .
  • the terminal 100 displays a post-translation document such as that shown in FIG. 2B which contains a text string that is the text string translated into the specified language, and an image MO expressing text or a text string that is the text or text string translated into the specified language.
  • the explanation assumes the language of the pre-transformation document (hereafter referred to as the pre-transformation language) is English and the specified language is Japanese, but this is intended to be illustrative and not limiting.
  • the terminal 100 comprises a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 100 a , a ROM (Read Only Memory) 100 b , a RAM (Random Access Memory) 100 c , a hard disk 100 d , a media controller 100 e , a LAN (Local Area Network) card 100 f , a video card 100 g , an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) 100 h , a keyboard 100 i , a speaker 100 j and a touch pad 100 k.
  • a CPU Central Processing Unit
  • ROM Read Only Memory
  • RAM Random Access Memory
  • the CPU 100 a accomplishes complete control of the terminal 100 by executing software processes in accordance with programs stored on the ROM 100 b or the hard disk 100 d .
  • the RAM 100 c temporarily stores data that is to be processed during execution of a program by the CPU 100 a.
  • the hard disk 100 d stores tables preserving various kinds of data.
  • the terminal 100 may also be provided with flash memory in place of the hard disk 100 d.
  • the media controller 100 e reads various types of data and programs from recording media including flash memory, CD (Compact Disc), DVD (Digital Versatile Disc), or Blu-ray Disc (registered trademark).
  • flash memory Compact Disc
  • DVD Digital Versatile Disc
  • Blu-ray Disc registered trademark
  • the LAN card 100 f sends and receives data among the image server 200 , the document server 300 and the transformation server 400 , connected via the communication network 10 .
  • the keyboard 100 i and the touchpad 100 k input signals or information in accordance with operation by the user.
  • the terminal 100 may be provided with a touch panel in place of the touchpad 100 k.
  • the video card 100 g draws (that is to say, renders) images based on digital signals output from the CPU 100 a , and also outputs image signals indicating the drawn image.
  • the LCD 100 h displays images in accordance with image signals output from the video card 100 g .
  • the terminal 100 may be provided with a PDP (Plasma Display Panel) or an EL (Electroluminescence) display in place of the LCD 100 h.
  • the speaker 100 j outputs audio based on signals output from the CPU 100 a.
  • the configurations of the image server 200 , the document server 300 and the transformation server 400 are the same as the configuration of the terminal 100 , so explanation of such is omitted.
  • the CPU 100 a of the terminal 100 executes a script process specified by the below-described post-transformation document based on the post-transformation document display process of FIG. 4A .
  • the CPU 100 a functions as an image location information extraction part 150 , an additional information extraction part 151 , an image location information generation part 152 and a overwriting part 153 , as shown in FIG. 5A .
  • the CPU 100 a works together with the LAN card 100 f of FIG. 3 to function as a document request transmission part 120 , a document response receiving part 130 , an image request transmission part 160 and an image response receiving part 170 . Furthermore, the CPU 100 a works together with the keyboard 100 i and the touchpad 100 k to function as a document location information accepting part 110 , and works together with the LCD 100 h to function as a document display part 180 .
  • An unrepresented CPU of the transformation server 400 functions as a document location information extraction part 420 and a transformation part 450 such as that shown in FIG. 5B by executing the transformation process shown in FIG. 4B .
  • the CPU of the transformation server 400 works together with a unrepresented LAN card to function as a document request receiving part 410 , a document request transmission part 430 , a document response receiving part 440 and a document response transmission part 460 .
  • An unrepresented CPU of the document server 300 functions as a document retrieving part 330 such as is shown in FIG. 5C by executing the document transmission process of FIG. 4C .
  • the CPU of the document server 300 work together with an unrepresented hard disk to function as a document storage 310 , and works together with an unrepresented LAN card to function as a document request receiving part 320 and a document response transmission part 240 .
  • the document storage 310 stores multiple items of the above-described document path information and document information associated with each other.
  • An unrepresented CPU of the image server 200 functions as an image retrieving part 230 and an image generation part 240 such as those shown in FIG. 5D by executing the image transmission process of FIG. 4D .
  • the CPU of the image server 200 works together with an unrepresented LAN card to function as an image request receiving part 220 and an image response transmission part 250 , and works together with an unrepresented hard disk to function as an image storage 210 .
  • the image storage 210 stores multiple of the above-described images ID and image information associated with each other.
  • the CPU 100 a of the terminal 100 starts the post-transformation document display process of FIG. 4A when a signal is input from the keyboard 100 i or the touchpad 100 k or FIG. 3 .
  • the URL of the transformation sever 400 input by the user and a URL indicating the location of the document to be transformed by the transformation server are input into the document location information accepting part 100 of FIG. 5A .
  • the document location information accepting part 110 accepts the first document location information “http://www.transformserver.co.jp?first_parameter” based on the input URL.
  • the first document location information is information specifying a first parameter designating the below-described second document location information with the transformation server 400 as the destination of the request. That is to say, within the first document location information, the part “transformserver.co.jp” indicating the domain name (it would be fine of this were the IP address) of the server contained in the URL of the transformation server 400 is the part that makes that server the transmission destination (that is to say, the request destination) of the request.
  • the method of adding that first parameter after adding the character “?” to the end of that part is used.
  • the second document location information is information specifying a second parameter designating a pre-transformation document, with the document server 300 as the request destination.
  • This second document location information is the above-described URL accepted, namely “http://www.documentserver.co.jp/dir/page.html”.
  • “documentserver.co.jp” in the URL is the part identifying the document server 300 as the transmission destination, and the part “dir/page.html” indicating the relative path of the pre-transformation document on the document server 300 is the second parameter designating this pre-transformation document.
  • the document location information accepting part 100 accepts, besides the first document location information, information indicating the pre-transformation language, information indicating the specified language specified by the user and a translation command commanding the document in the pre-transformation language to be translated into the specified language (step S 11 ).
  • the document request transmission part 120 of FIG. 5A generates a first document request (hereafter called the “first request”) based on the first document location information, and transmits the generated first document request to the transformation server 400 (step S 12 ).
  • the first request is a request seeking for the first request transmission part 120 to transmit document information indicating the post-transformation document as a first document response (hereafter called the “first response”), and is a request specified by the above-described first parameter.
  • the explanation of the post-transformation document display process executed by the terminal 100 will be temporarily interrupted.
  • An unrepresented CPU of the transformation server 400 starts the transformation process shown in FIG. 4B when an unrepresented LAN card receives data.
  • the document request receiving part 410 of FIG. 5B receives the first document request (in other words, the first request) from the terminal 100 (step S 21 ).
  • the document request transmission part 430 transmits a second document request (hereafter also called the “second request”) specifying the second parameter “dir/page.html” to the document server 300 specified as the request destination in the extracted second document location information (step S 23 ).
  • second request a second document request
  • the explanation of the transformation process executed by the transformation server 400 will be temporarily interrupted.
  • An unrepresented CPU of the document server 300 starts the document transmission process shown in FIG. 4C when an unrepresented LAN card receives data.
  • the document request receiving part 320 of FIG. 5C receives the second document request (in other words, the second request) from the transformation server 400 (step S 31 ).
  • the document retrieving part 330 generates document path information for the document whose transmission is requested, from the second parameter “dir/page.html” specified in the received second document request, and retrieves document information stored in the document storage 310 corresponding to the generated document path information (step S 32 ).
  • the document response transmission part 340 replies to the transformation server 400 with the retrieved document as the second response (in other words, the document response) (step S 33 ), and then execution of the document transmission process concludes.
  • the document response receiving part 440 of FIG. 5B receives document information as the second document response (that is to say, the second response) from the document server 300 (step S 24 ).
  • the document response transmission part 460 of FIG. 5B transmits document information indicating the post-transformation document as the first document response (that is to say, as the first response) to the terminal 100 (step S 26 ), and following this, execution of the transformation process concludes.
  • the pre-transformation document is a document written in HTML, such as that shown in FIG. 6A .
  • This document contains English character strings such as “Sale” and “Price $4.95” in the area surrounded by the “body” tag BDI.
  • this document can carry an image at a location indicated by the image location information “./img.gif” contained in the “src” attribute of the “img” tag IMI, that image is carried between the above-described character strings “Sale” and “Price $4.95”.
  • the character string “Lady's Outlet” described at the “alt” attribute is carried.
  • the character string “Lady's Outlet” described in the “alt” attribute is used as a character string added to that image (that is to say, is indicated as an image in that image), so the information indicating the character string described in the “alt” attribute is labeled as additional information.
  • the transformation server 400 translates the document information of FIG. 6A into the document information of FIG. 6B in step S 25 of the above-described FIG. 4B .
  • the transformation server 400 translates the English character strings “Sale” and “Price $4.95” and/or the like into the Japanese “ ” and “ ” 4.95 “ ” and/or the like.
  • the transformation server 400 translates the character string “Lady's Outlet” described in the “alt” attribute of the “img” tag IMI shown in FIG. 6A into the Japanese “ ”, and through this transforms the “img” tag IMI into “img” tag IMO.
  • the transformation server 400 does not translate the control code used in executing the program, such as the image location information “./img.gif” described in the “src” attribute of the “img” tag IMI or other tags. This is so that the program's execution process is possible and execution of the control content executed does not change even if messages or sentences input and output before and after translation change.
  • the function name “transText( )” is described in the “onload” attribute of the “body” tag BDI, as shown in FIG. 6A .
  • a function FCI of this function name accomplishes an image location information change process changing the image location information carried in the “img” tag indicated by the document information of the process target, with the document information of that function's call as the process target. Details of the image location information change process are described below.
  • This image location information change process is determined by a character string described in a computer language such as JavaScript (registered trademark).
  • the transformation server 400 for example excludes character strings contained in comments and quotation marks, and does not accomplish a transform of character strings indicating this image location information change process. That is because processes executed before and after translation are not changed (in other words, programs are maintained).
  • the image location information change process executed by the function FCI may be described in the HTML file that is the function FCI's call, or may be described in a file differing from the HTML file, such as a js file.
  • the document response receiving part 130 of FIG. 5A receives the first response from the transformation server 400 (step S 13 ).
  • the image location information change process shown in FIG. 7 is executed with the document information of the post-transformation document as the process target (step S 15 ).
  • the image location information extraction part 150 of FIG. 5A acquires the return value obtained by giving the character string “testImg*” as an argument to a method known as “getElementByIdQ”. Through this, the image location information extraction part 150 extracts the “img” tag (hereafter called the target img tag) IMO having the “id” attribute of “testImg” from the document information that was the process target, such as is shown in FIG. 6B (step S 51 ).
  • the target img tag hereafter called the target img tag
  • the image location information extraction part 150 references the “src” property of the instance of the target img tag IMO acquired as a return value. Through this, the image location information extraction part 150 extracts the image location information “./img.gif? described in the “src” attribute of the target img tag IMO from that tag IMO (step S 52 ).
  • the additional information extraction part 151 similarly extracts additional information specifying the character string “ ” described in the “alt” attribute from the extracted target img tag IMO, and accomplishes an additional information extraction process stored in the variable “text” (step S 53 ).
  • the image location information generation part 152 executes an image location information generation process that generates new image location information (also called image obtaining information) based on the image location information extracted by the additional information extraction part 151 and the additional information stored in the variable “text” (step S 54 ).
  • new image location information also called image obtaining information
  • This new image location information contains the part “http://www.imageserver” specifying the image server 200 as the request destination.
  • this new image location information contains additional information specifying “ ” stored in the variable “text”.
  • the overwriting part 153 overwrites the “src” property of the instance of the target img tag IMO to the generated new image location information.
  • the transformer sets this new image location information to the “src” attribute of the “img” tag IMO (step S 55 ) and then execution of the image location information change process concludes.
  • the image request transmission part 160 transmits the generated image transmission request to the image server 200 (step S 16 ).
  • explanation of the post-transformation document display process executed by the terminal 100 will again be interrupted.
  • An unrepresented CPU of the image server 200 starts an image transmission process like that shown in FIG. 4D when data is received by an unrepresented LAN card.
  • the image request receiving part 220 of FIG. 5D receives the image request (that is to say, the image transmission request) from the terminal 100 (step S 41 ).
  • the image retrieving part 230 retrieves image information of the background image attached corresponding to the same image ID as the background information “bk1.jpg” designated by the extracted image parameter, from the image storage 210 (step S 42 ).
  • the image generation part 240 reads the retrieved image information from the image storage 210 (step S 43 ).
  • the image generation part 240 generates character images indicating the post-translation character string “ ” specified by the additional information.
  • an image MO to which the generated character image is added is generated for the background image indicated by the read image information (step S 44 ).
  • the image response transmission part 250 of FIG. 5D transmits image information indicating the generated image MO to the terminal 100 as the image response (hereafter also called image response) (step S 45 ), and following this execution of the image transmission process concludes.
  • the image response receiving part 170 of FIG. 5A receives the image response (that is to say, the image response) from the image server 200 (step S 17 ).
  • the document display part 180 displays the image MO indicated by the image information received as an image response and a text character string indicated by the document information of the post-transformation document on the screen FO, as shown in FIG. 2B (step S 18 ), and following this execution of the post-transformation document display process concludes.
  • the document location information accepting part 110 of FIG. 5A accepts as second document location information the URL “http://www.documentserver.co.jp/dir/page.html” indicating the location of a pre-transformation document input by the user (step S 61 ).
  • the document request transmission part 120 of FIG. 5A transmits the second document request (that is to say, the second request) specifying the second parameter “dir/page.html” of the second document location information to the document server 300 (step S 62 ).
  • the document server 300 When an unrepresented LAN card receives the data, the document server 300 starts a document transmission process like that shown in FIG. 8B , similar to above. When the document transmission process is started, the document server 300 executes the same process as in steps S 31 to S 33 of FIG. 4C and then execution of the document transmission process concludes.
  • the document server 300 receives the second document request (that is to say, the second request) from the terminal 100 (step S 81 ) and retrieves document information such as that shown in FIG. 6A based on the second document request received (step S 82 ). Following this, the document server 300 replies with the retrieved document information to the terminal 100 as the second response (that is to say, the second document response) (step S 83 ).
  • the document response receiving part 130 of the terminal 100 shown in FIG. 5A receives the second response from the document server 300 (step S 63 ).
  • a load process is executed that starts execution of the function FCI described in the “onload” attribute possessed by the “body” tag DBI of FIG. 6A (step S 64 ).
  • the image location information change process of FIG. 7 is executed with the document information of the untransformed document as the process target (step S 65 ).
  • the “img” tag IMI is extracted from the document information of the pre-transformation document shown in FIG. 6A , and the additional information specifying the untransformed character string “Lady's Outlet” described in the “alt” attribute possessed by the “img” tag IMI is extracted.
  • new image location information that is to say, image import information
  • the new image location information is set to the “src” attribute possessed by the “img” tag IMI of FIG. 6A .
  • step S 65 in FIG. 8A a process similar to step S 16 through step S 18 of FIG. 4A is executed (steps S 66 through S 68 ), and then execution of the pre-transformation document display process concludes.
  • the text character strings “Sale” and “$4.95” that are not transformed as shown in FIG. 2B and the image to which the untransformed character string “Lady's Outlet” was added, are displayed on a screen FI of FIG. 2A .
  • the terminal 100 extracts additional information from the post-transformation document (hereafter called the first document) whose test character strings were transformed, and displays the image to which the characters or character strings specified by the extracted additional information was added, and the transformed text character string of that post-transformation document (that is to say, the first document). Consequently, the terminal 100 can display a post-transformation document containing an image indicating the transformed characters or character strings and the transformed text. In other words, the user can peruse the post-transformation document (first document) containing an image indicating the transformed characters or character strings and not just the transformed text.
  • the terminal 100 accepts second document location information specifying a second parameter designating the pre-transformation document (hereafter called the second document) on which the transformation process has not been conducted.
  • the terminal 100 extracts the additional information from the pre-transformation document, and displays the image to which the characters or character strings specified by the extracted additional information are added, and the text character string of the pre-transformation document. Consequently, the terminal 100 can display the pre-transformation document containing the image indicating the untransformed characters or character strings, and untransformed text.
  • the user can peruse the pre-transformation document (that is to say the second document) containing not just the untransformed text but also an image indicating the untransformed characters or character strings.
  • the characters and character strings described in the “src” attribute of the “img” tag written in HTML indicate the location of the image displayed, normally such is excluded from being an object of the transformation process.
  • the characters and character strings described in the “alt” attribute of the “img” tag are displayed in place of that image when an image has not been acquired or cannot be acquired from the location described in the “src” attribute, and thus normally becomes a target of the transformation process.
  • the terminal 100 executes the program in which the “onload” attribute of the “body” tag is described before acquiring an image from the location described in the “src” attribute of the “img” tag.
  • the terminal 100 executes the program in which the “onload” attribute is described before acquiring the image at the location described in the “src” attribute of the “img” tag. Consequently, if the terminal 100 receives the post-change document (the first document) that is a transformation of the pre-transformation document (second document) expressed in HTML, the terminal can receive the image that is at the location described in the “src” attribute of the “img” tag that did not become the target of transformation and to which are added characters or character strings indicating the “alt” attribute of the “img” tag that was a target of transformation.
  • the terminal 100 after extracting the additional information from the translated text character strings of the pre-transformation document (second document), the terminal 100 displays the image to which the characters or character strings specified by the extracted additional information are added, and the translated text character strings of the pre-transformation document (second document). Consequently, the terminal 100 can display the document containing the image indicating the translated characters or character strings and the translated text, even without storing in advance images to which characters or character strings translated into each translation language have been added.
  • the image contained in the pre-transformation document is an advertising image and the characters or character strings added to that image express advertising content
  • the characters or character strings expressed in the image are also displayed translated and not just the text character strings carried in the document so it is possible to advertise to users with a stronger appeal than in the past.
  • the browsing system 1 was explained as comprising the separate devices of a terminal 100 , an image server 200 , a document server 300 and a transformation server 400 .
  • this is intended to be illustrative and not limiting, for two or more out of the terminal 100 , the image server 200 , the document server 300 and the transformation server 400 may be integrally composed.
  • the image server 200 and the document server 300 may be integrally composed, or the terminal 100 , the image server 200 , the document server 300 and the transformation server 400 may all be integrally composed.
  • the terminal 100 , the image server 200 , the document server 300 and the transformation server 400 may each be realized with multiple devices.
  • the functions the terminal possesses may be realized with multiple devices.
  • the functions the image server 200 , the document server 300 and the transformation server 400 respectively possess may be respectively realized with multiple devices.
  • the additional information was explained as specifying the characters or character strings described in the “src” attribute of the “img” tag.
  • the additional information extraction part 151 of FIG. 5A was explained in step S 53 of FIG. 7 as extracting the characters or character strings described in the “alt” attribute of the “img” tag extracted from the document using the method of “getElementByIdQ”.
  • the additional information is intended to be characters or character strings enclosed by a different type of tag having the “class” attribute or the “id” attribute in which character strings (for example, the same character strings or partially the same character strings) corresponding to the character string “testImg” described in the “id” attribute of the “img” tag.
  • the characters or character strings enclosed by those other types of tags may be set so as to not be visible.
  • the characters or character strings enclosed by that kind of different type of tag or that tag can be extracted from the document using the method of “getElementsByClassName( )” that returns elements of tags having the “class” attribute of a prescribed name.
  • the tag is used as a tag enclosing the characters or character strings added to the image, so it is possible to note more freely than in the past the characters or character strings added to the image for the document.
  • the additional information may be characters or character strings enclosed by “”” (parentheses) in JavaScript (registered trademark). According to this configuration, the characters or character strings added to the image can be described more freely than in the past.
  • the image location information extraction part 150 was explained as extracting the elements of the “img” tag possessing the “id” attribute described be a prescribed character string “testImg” for example using the method “getElementsByIdQ”. Furthermore, the image location information extraction part 150 was explained as being able to extract the elements of the tag possessing the “class” attribute described by the prescribed character string “testImg” for example using the method “getElementsByClassName( )”.
  • the image location information extraction part 150 can acquire elements of the tags even for “img” tags not possessing the “id” attribute or the “class” attribute or in which the “id” attribute or the “class” attribute are not described, using “getElementsByTagName( )”.
  • the tag for which the elements are acquired is not limited to the “img” tag and may be a different type of tag. According to this configuration, when elements of the “img” tag contained in an HTML document are successively extracted and the image location information change process of FIG. 7 is applied to each of these it is not necessary to specify in advance the “id” attribute or the “class” attribute in the “img” tag.
  • the background information may be information identifying the image at a location expressed by the image location information “./img.gif” extracted from the post-transformation document or the pre-transformation document by the additional information extraction part 151 .
  • the background information may be described in advance in a program such as JavaScript (registered trademark) specified by the pre-transformation document (that is to say, a program also specified by the post-transformation document).
  • the terminal 100 displays an image to which transformed characters or character strings are added to the background image identified by background information described in the program specified by the pre-transformation document or the pre-transformation document (second document). Consequently, if the background information described in the program specified by the pre-transformation document or the pre-transformation document (second document) is caused to vary, the terminal 100 can display the post-transformation document (first document) containing an image to which the post-transformation characters or character strings are added to a different background.
  • the terminal 100 was explained as extracting elements of one “img” tag in which the character string of “testImg” is described, from document information indicating the document.
  • the terminal 100 was explained as displaying a document containing an image in which a character string described in the “alt” attribute possessed by the “img” tag whose elements were extracted is added a background image at a location indicated by image location information described in the “src” attribute possessed by the “img” tag.
  • the terminal 100 can extract elements of the “img” tag (hereafter called the first “img” tag) described in the “id” attribute by the character string “testImg1”, elements of the “img” tag (hereafter called the second “img” tag) described in the “id” attribute by the character string “testImg2”, and elements of the “img” tag (hereafter called the third “img” tag) described in the “id” attribute by the character string “testImg3”, from document information indicating the document.
  • the first “img” tag described in the “id” attribute by the character string “testImg1
  • elements of the “img” tag hereafter called the second “img” tag described in the “id” attribute by the character string “testImg2
  • elements of the “img” tag hereafter called the third “img” tag
  • the terminal 100 can display a document containing an image in which the character string of the “alt” attribute of the first “img” tag is added to the background image designated by the “src” attribute of the first “img” tag, an image in which the character string of the “alt” attribute of the second “img” tag is added to the background image designated by the “src” attribute of the second “img” tag, and an image in which the character string of the “alt” attribute of the third “img” tag is added to the background image designated by the “src” attribute of the third “img” tag.
  • this preferred embodiment was explained with the image parameter designating the additional information and the background information and the image server generating an image in which characters or character strings expressed by additional information are added to a background image identified by the background information designated by the image parameter.
  • this is intended to be illustrative and not limiting, for it would be fine for the image parameter to designate, besides the additional information and the background information, style information indicating a style or styles for adding characters or character strings expressed by that additional information to the image.
  • the image server it would be fine for the image server to add those characters or character strings to the image with a style or styles indicated by the style information designated by the image parameter.
  • a style or styles for adding the characters or character strings to the image include one or more out of the font, font size, font color, thickness, presence of border and absence or presence of border of the characters or character strings.
  • the image parameter designates the additional information, the background information and the style information, so it is possible to match the style or styles of the characters or character strings added to the background image with the style or styles of background image.
  • the style or styles of the characters or character strings added to the background image can be a style or styles, such as a style or styles matched to the style or styles of background image or differs from the style or styles from the style or styles of background image, that is/are easy for the user to confirm by sight to increase the appeal of advertisements more than in the past.
  • the preferred embodiment and the above-described multiple variations can be mutually combined.
  • a terminal 100 provided in advance with configurations for realizing the functions according to the preferred embodiment, and by applying a program, it is also possible to cause an existing terminal to function as the terminal 100 according to the preferred embodiment.
  • the method of distributing this kind of program is arbitrary, and for example distribution is possible by storing such on a recording medium such as a memory card, a CD-ROM, a DVD-ROM and/or the like, and distribution is also possible via a communication medium such as the Internet and/or the like.
  • the browsing method according to the present invention can be implementing using the browsing system 1 according to the present invention.
  • the present invention can be applied to a terminal for displaying images, an image server for transmitting images to a terminal, and a system provided with a terminal and an image server.
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