WO2002013019A1

WO2002013019A1 - Additional information displaying method, and additional information displaying recorded medium

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Publication number: WO2002013019A1
Application number: PCT/JP2001/005832
Authority: WO
Inventors: Hiromune Kaneki
Original assignee: Hiromune Kaneki
Priority date: 2000-08-02
Filing date: 2001-07-05
Publication date: 2002-02-14
Also published as: AU2001269447A1; JP2002049555A

Abstract

In descriptive portions not displayed by a WWW browser and provided in areas (11, 14) where partial information (10) is described, there is described all additional information (12) created for the partial information (10) together with an identification code (13) for specifying the type of the additional information (12). A receiver terminal device that has received the electronic document where the additional information (12) and the identification code (13) are buried from a network displays the original information from the electronic document on a display unit by using a WWW browser, extracts, if the identification code (13) is selected, the additional information (12) specified by the selected identification code (13) from the electronic document, and displays the information (12) at the display position of the partial information (10).

Description

Description Method of displaying additional information and recording medium for displaying additional information

The present invention relates to an additional information display method and an additional information display recording medium for displaying additional information according to a type selected by a receiver terminal device for a part of an electronic document fetched from a network such as the Internet. The present invention relates to a display method of additional information and a recording medium for displaying additional information, which are suitable for translating and displaying a document. Background art

In recent years, the spread of computer networks typified by the Internet using the World Wide Web (WWW) has enabled information senders to send information to various recipients through Web pages. It became so.

Against this backdrop, information senders have become more likely to provide personalized information suitable for recipients with different characteristics, such as region ■ gender and age, and the need for such information has been increasing.

For example, on the Internet, there are no regional restrictions on recipients, so information can be transmitted to countries around the world.However, when transmitting electronic documents mainly consisting of textual information, the target recipient uses If you don't consider the language you use, you can't really understand it.

Therefore, if the sender is a recipient in multiple countries, the sender creates a web page that displays the translations (individual information) translated into the language of each country, Display the translation (individual information) separately W e A b page has been created to link the web page that displays the original text so that recipients in multiple countries can understand it.

On the other hand, if the sender does not provide the above-mentioned translated web page, the recipient, on the other hand, incorporates a translation software for translating the electronic document into his / her own language into the recipient terminal device. The electronic document displayed on the eb page is translated and displayed on the display device.

However, the former method, in which the sender creates and provides a translation, provides not only an electronic document that displays the original text information, but also individual information according to the characteristics (eg, language) of each recipient. It is necessary to create an electronic document that displays a message, which increases the amount of data to be transmitted and requires extra storage capacity in the sender's terminal device.

This problem becomes prominent in proportion to the number of translation languages provided, for example, when the individual information is a translation translated into the language of the recipient, and therefore, the English used in major countries or In addition, only German and French translations were prepared. For this reason, in regions where technological progress has been relatively slow, the number of electronic documents that can be delivered in the native language of the country is extremely small, causing the so-called digital divide, which is a regional information gap.

Furthermore, translating all of the original text information displayed on the web page into other languages not only increases the labor and cost of translation, but also provides a markup language for electronic documents (eg, It was necessary to create an electronic document using HTML). If an electronic document contains an image file, link it to share it with other translated electronic documents.If there are characters in the image file, translate the characters and create a new image file. Had to be done.

In the latter method, the recipient uses the translation software to translate. It is necessary to search for the specified term contained in the electronic document captured by a WWW browser using an internal dictionary, translate it to the corresponding language, and display it. Extra connection costs were incurred while connected.

Furthermore, since the translation software is usually limited to translation in one language, if the web page to be viewed is created in a language that is not covered by the translation software, the translation software corresponding to that language will be translated. It was necessary to obtain it and install it in advance, and every time browsing, it took time and effort to restart the translation software for the corresponding language, and it took extra time.

Furthermore, the content translated by the translation software is left to the translation capabilities of the respective translation software, and may not always match the content intended by the sender, making it impossible to decipher it.

An object of the present invention is to solve these problems, and it is possible to increase the amount of data to be transmitted on the caller side, and to increase the storage capacity of the caller terminal device, and to improve the characteristics of the receiver without the need. an electronic document child outbound for displaying individual information corresponding to the display method of the appended information that can, _c provide appended information display recording medium also by simplifying the task of translating relative to textual information, low cost Another object of the present invention is to provide a method of displaying additional information for displaying a translation on a receiver terminal device, and a recording medium for displaying additional information.

In addition, the present invention provides a method of displaying additional information for accurately displaying a necessary translation in real time on the receiver side connected to the sender's www server, and a recording medium for displaying additional information. Disclosure of the invention

A method for displaying additional information according to the present invention includes generating multiple types of additional information for at least a part of the original text information, All additional information generated for the partial information, together with an identification code that identifies the type of the additional information, in the description part that is not displayed by the WWW browser in the area where the partial information is described, using the backup language Then, an electronic document in which the additional information and the identification code are embedded in the original text information is provided from the sender terminal device to the network, and the receiver terminal device that fetches the electronic document from the network uses a WWW browser. In addition to displaying the original text information from the electronic document on the display device, if the identification code is selected, the additional information specified by the selected identification code is extracted from the electronic document, and the display position of the partial information And is displayed in association with.

According to this configuration, when the identification code is selected in the receiver terminal device that has imported the electronic document in which the additional information and the identification code are embedded, only the additional information specified by the selected identification code is displayed. Is extracted. Since the additional information of other types is described in the description part that is not displayed in the www browser, only the additional information specified by the selected identification code is extracted together with the original information in the receiver terminal device. Is displayed.

Therefore, the characteristics of the receiver can be divided by the identification code, and only the additional information corresponding to the characteristics of the receiver can be displayed together with the original text information.

The additional information may be displayed in such a manner that the additional information is a translation of the partial information translated into another language, and the identification code identifies the type of the translated language.

For the partial information, translations corresponding to various languages are generated and embedded in part of the original text information to make an electronic document, so the web page itself becomes larger, or web pages for individual languages are created. It does not need to be created and does not increase the storage capacity of the WWW server.

Also, since only the parts necessary for understanding the contents are translated, translation costs can be reduced. Furthermore, by selecting the recipient's desired language with the identification code, a part of the original text information is automatically translated and displayed in the recipient's desired language. No need for translation software, Accurate and efficient browsing becomes possible.

Further, the display method of the additional information may be such that when the cursor is moved to the display position of the partial information, the additional information generated for the partial information is displayed in a window.

By selecting with the identification code desired by the recipient, the additional information desired by the recipient is displayed as if the subtitles of the movie were displayed. Since the additional information is displayed in the window, it is visually recognized in comparison with the corresponding partial information.

Further, the recording medium for displaying additional information according to the present invention is created in HTML, and specifies the additional information generated for at least a part of the original information and the additional information in the original text information. An electronic document with the identification code embedded was imported from the recipient terminal device connected to the network, and a display program for displaying the additional information described in the description part hidden by the WWW browser was recorded. A storage medium for displaying additional information, wherein the display program searches the electronic document for an identification code selected in advance when the electronic document is imported, and adds the additional information specified by the identification code to a WWW browser. Additional information extraction function to extract from the description part hidden by the user, and additional information to display the extracted additional information near the display position where the partial information corresponding to the additional information is displayed And a display function, the receiver terminal apparatus and wherein the executable to read the display flop port grams.

According to this configuration, when the receiver terminal device reads the additional information display recording medium and executes the display program, the receiver terminal device reads the electronic document in which the additional information and the identification code are embedded. Then, the additional information specified by the selected identification code is extracted. Since the additional information of other types is described in the description part that is not displayed by the WWW browser, only the additional information specified by the selected identification code is extracted together with the original information in the receiver terminal device. Is displayed.

Further, the additional information display medium may be such that the additional information is a translation of the partial information translated into another language, and the identification code specifies the type of the translated language.

By selecting the recipient's preferred language with the identification code, a part of the source information is automatically translated and displayed in the recipient's preferred language, eliminating the need for translation software, providing accurate and efficient Good browsing becomes possible. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a web page (homepage) 1 initially displayed on a display device of a receiver terminal device, and FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 1 is an explanatory view of the main part showing the source code of an electronic document written in HTML to display Web page 1 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows various displays by activating the imported display program. FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an initial setting screen for setting conditions on the screen.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of starting the initially set display program and displaying specific additional information 12 from the imported HTML document. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of FIG. FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which additional information 12 is displayed in the window 21 near the partial information in a superimposed manner on the Web page 1 of FIG. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to the display of a translation will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5. Fig. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing the web page (homepage) 1 displayed first on the display device of the receiver terminal device. Fig. 2 is an HTML diagram for displaying the web page 1 in Fig. 1. FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of a main part showing a source code of a written electronic document.

In this embodiment, a WWW (World Wide Web) server of a caller terminal device connected to the Internet transmits an electronic document for representing a Web page shown in FIG. 1 via the Internet. It is sent to an unspecified recipient terminal device.

An electronic document is a hypertext document (hereinafter referred to as an HTML document) written in a markup language for electronic documents that specifies a link for WWW in a file, in this case, a language called H TML (Hypertext Markup Language). ). In other words, HTML documents use reserved words between tags “>” and “>” called tags. Format text, specify image file display positions and link destinations, and declare scripts. However, when this is opened with the WWW browser of the receiver terminal device, it is interpreted and displayed.

For example, “subtitle production”, which is a part of the original text information that the sender intends to provide, is described in HTML as shown in code 11A enclosed by the tags in FIG. When the receiver terminal device browses with a WWW browser, the display position on the web page screen of “Caption production”. The font and the link to the image file are specified, and as shown in FIG. Subtitle production "10 is displayed.

In the present embodiment, for the partial information indicated as “caption production” 10, a plurality of types of translations 12 a, 12 b, 12 c, and 12 d serving as additional information are added. , ID code identifying the type 13 a, 13 b, 13 c, 1 It is generated along with 3d, and is described in HTML in an area 11 where the partial information is described. Here, the translation sentence 1 2a is “Subtitle 1 ing” which translated Japanese “subtitle production” into English, 12 b is “Untertite 1” which is translated into Doi, and 1 2c is "S oustitrage" translated into French, 1 2d is translated into Italian (not shown), identification code "US" 13a, "DE" 13b, "FR" 13c, The “IT” 13d is a code that indicates that the consecutive translations in semicolon are English, German, French, and Italian, respectively.

In the same way, as shown in Fig. 2, in the area 14 where other partial information that needs to be translated and comprehended (for example, “customs clearance”) is written in HTML, The translations 1 2 a, 1 2 b, 1 2 c, 1 2 d, and the identification codes 13 a, 13 b, 13 c, 13 d that identify the translation language type Is described using the comment tag 14 B.

The translation 12 and the identification code 13 are described using the comment tags 11 B and 14 B that are not displayed by the WWW browser, and therefore are not normally displayed, and the receiving terminal device will be described later. Specific additional information is displayed only by the display program executed in. In the present embodiment, the character "Mu1ti1ang" 2 indicating the presence of the identification code is added to the comment tag 11B.

An HTML document in which the identification code 13 and the description of the translation sentence 12 are embedded for the partial information that needs to be translated is provided from the WWW server of the sender terminal device via the Internet, and is sent to any receiver terminal device. It is captured. In the receiver terminal device on which the display program is not activated, the WWW browser displays a Web page 1 in which the additional information 12 is not displayed as shown in FIG. Here, the above additional information is displayed In order to allow the recipient terminal device to display the translation, it is necessary to start the display program from the home page shown in FIG. 1 to the recipient terminal device as needed. I try to download it.

For this reason, on the homepage, when the translation text is desired to be displayed, a download window 15 indicating that the display program is to be downloaded is displayed in each language, and the recipient can set the cursor 16 to the download window. After moving to the inside of 15, the execution instruction is sent according to the instruction on the screen, and the display program is taken in and stored in the receiving terminal device.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an initial setting screen for activating the fetched display program and setting various display conditions on the screen. The initial setting screen contains an identification code for specifying the additional information (translation text) desired to be displayed. Here, the language selection window 17 for selecting the language of the translation text, the font of the additional information to be displayed, the back color, Window 1 '8, 19, 20 is displayed, and the cursor 16 is moved to these windows 17, 18, 18, 19, 20. You can choose. In FIG. 3, after moving the cursor 16 to the language selection window 17, click and operate the mouse, which is the input device of the receiver terminal device, and change the language desired by the receiver to English (ENG). LI SH) ■ It shows that English is selected from French (FR ENC H). Hereinafter, among the identification codes 13, the identification code “US” 13 a representing English is used in the receiver terminal device. The description will be made assuming that the selected item is selected.

After the display program is once stored in the receiving terminal device and initialized as described above, the HTML document in which the additional information 12 is embedded in the same manner is added to the original document information and the identification information selected by the receiver. The additional information 1 and 2 can be automatically displayed at any time with the default settings. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation of activating the initially set display program and displaying specific additional information 12 from the fetched HTML document.

First, if the display program is started while the HTML document is imported and Web page 1 is displayed with a WWW browser, the display program periodically acquires the position of the cursor 16 on the display screen. Then (step S1), it is determined whether or not a comment tag is described in the source code of the HTML document for the acquired cursor position (step S2). If the comment tag is not described, it is determined that no translation is generated in the display area of the partial information indicated by the cursor 16 and, in particular, the translation is not displayed and the process proceeds to step S1. Return and repeat cursor position acquisition.

On the other hand, for example, when the cursor is positioned in the display area 10 A of “caption production” 10, the partial information 11 1 A code area 11 A in which the display area 1 OA of “caption production” is described Since the comment tag 11 1B exists in the comment tag 11, it is determined that the comment tag is described, and the process of determining whether the identification code 13 is described in the comment tag 11 B (step S3) Move to Whether or not the identification code 13 is described may be determined based on whether or not the identification code “US” 13 a selected at the receiver terminal device is described. Judgment is made based on whether or not the description of “Multilang” 2 indicating the existence of the code 13 itself is included in the comment tag 11 B.

If “Multilang” 2 is not described in the comment tag, it is assumed that another comment tag is simply described, the display processing of the additional information is not performed, and the process returns to step S1 to return to the cursor position. The acquisition of is repeated. On the other hand, if the character “Mu 1 ti 1 ang” 2 indicating the presence of the identification code 13 is described in the comment tag, the additional information 12 identified by the selected identification code 13 is displayed. Step S4 is performed. For example, in the comment tag 11 B of the area 11 where the code of “caption production” is described, “Multilang” 2 is described as shown in FIG. 2, so the selected identification code “ The additional information “Subtitling” 1 2a specified by “US” 13a is displayed on the display device.

As shown in FIG. 5, this additional information 12 is superimposed on the web page 1 of FIG. 1 displayed by a WWW browser, and a window 2 near the partial information corresponding to the additional information is displayed. Displayed within 1. The additional information 12 may be displayed in a balloon such as a balloon.

As described above, the additional information to be displayed is determined by the identification code 13 selected in the initial setting of the display program. For example, when the identification code “DE” 13 b is selected, `` Additional information `` Subtiteling '' 1 2b is displayed instead of `` Subtitling 1 ing '' 1 2a _(In this way, the recipient selects an understandable native language identification code 13 by default. By doing this, it is possible to automatically display the translation of the native language 12. The display font, character power, and knock color are displayed according to the initial settings as in the display program.

In the display processing of the additional information in step S4, the processing from step S1 to step S4 is periodically repeated until the cursor moves out of the display area of the partial information. It continues until it determines “NO”. Therefore, if the cursor moves to another partial information, for example, the display area 30 A of “customs clearance”, the same processing is repeated, and the additional information specified by the selected identification code “US” 13 a is added. Information “Customs C learance” 1 2a; ^, related to “Customs clearance” Is displayed in a window in the vicinity.

The additional information (translation) can be created for any part that needs to be translated and understood, and displayed as if it were a movie subtitle. In addition, since it is not necessary to create a translated sentence for all the original sentence information and convert it into an HTML document, it is possible to drastically reduce the translation effort, cost, and data amount when providing the HTML document.

For this reason, the sender must work on a partial translation along with the identification code to identify the language, even in a variety of languages such as English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The language can be easily described in the language, and it can easily cope with differences in the language used (understood) by the recipient.

The present invention can be variously modified without being limited to the above-described embodiment. For example, a display program for displaying a translated sentence is provided on the Internet from the sender terminal device and downloaded to the receiver terminal device. In this method, a translation display storage medium for recording a display program, such as a CD-ROM or a floppy disk, is distributed to recipients by mail or the like, and is installed in the recipient device. There may be.

Although the above electronic document has been described in the example described in HTML, if it is a markup language for electronic documents, it is described in another language such as XML (Extensible Markup Language), SGML, HPML, etc. However, the present invention can be applied.

In the above-described embodiment, a comment tag is used as a description part that is not displayed by the WWW browser in the HTML document. The identification code and additional information may be described using the heading part of the display. Furthermore, the supplementary information does not necessarily have to be a translated sentence. For example, when conducting commercial transactions (EC) such as auctions via a network, Transaction information presented under different conditions depending on the other party can also be used as additional information. In other words, in conjunction with the description (partial information) that introduces the product, multiple transaction conditions are generated as supplementary information, and the business partner (customer) is divided into multiple ranks, and an identification code is assigned to each rank. By assigning 13 and identifying multiple types of transaction conditions with the identification code 13, it is possible to display the transaction conditions that differ depending on the customer rank at the position related to the description of the product on the customer's terminal device. it can.

According to this method, the commercial site, which is the sender, does not perform processing such as issuing an ID or registering a password for each customer, but instead transmits price information according to the characteristics of the customer (for example, rank). Can be notified.

In the above embodiment, the partial information may be a text file, or may be an image file with a link. When the partial information is an image file, the additional information may be described in a description area that is not displayed by a WWW browser in a description area describing a paste position on the Web page. By displaying the additional information on the image file in this way, for example, characters in the image file that cannot be translated by the translation software can be translated and displayed, and the image file of each language can be displayed. There is no need to create and link.

Further, in the same manner, the image file may be a moving image file to be delivered, and while displaying the moving image, the additional information (translation sentence, etc.) corresponding to the moving image can be displayed at an appropriate timing.

As described above, according to the present invention, the sender can increase the data amount of the electronic document to be sent to the network or add the additional document according to the characteristics of the receiver without linking another electronic document. Information can be displayed along with the textual information.

On the other hand, the recipient adds the supplementary information in relation to a part of the original It is easy to browse and web pages can be browsed efficiently.

Also, when connected to the network online, translations in languages that the recipient can understand are displayed in real time in relation to the original text without using translation software, so they are displayed in various languages Easy to understand original text information.

In addition, since the additional information that is displayed is displayed in a window, it can be understood by comparing it with the partial information as if watching the movie subtitles. Industrial applicability

As described above, the method for displaying the additional information and the recording medium for displaying the additional information according to the present invention are based on the type selected by the receiver terminal device for a part of an electronic document imported from a network such as the Internet. It can be used for display devices and display systems that display information, especially display devices and display systems that translate and display electronic documents.

Claims

The scope of the claims

1. For at least some of the partial information (10) in the original text information, generate multiple types of additional information (12),

Using the markup language for electronic documents, the description part hidden in the WWW browser in the area (11, 14) where the partial information (10) is described is added to the partial information (10). Describe all the additional information (12) generated together with an identification code (13) specifying the type of the additional information (12), and add the additional information (12) and the identification code (13) in the original text information. Providing an electronic document with embedded URL from the sender terminal device to the network,

The recipient terminal that has imported the electronic document from the network displays the original text information from the electronic document on a display device using a WWW browser. If the identification code (13) is selected, select it. A method for displaying additional information, wherein additional information (12) specified by the identified identification code (13) is extracted from the electronic document and displayed in association with the display position of the partial information (10).

2. The additional information (12) is a translation of the partial information (10) translated into another language, and the identification code (13) specifies the type of the translated language. Display method of additional information described in item 1.

3. When the cursor is moved to the display position of the partial information (10), the additional information (12) generated for the partial information (10) is displayed in the window. A method for displaying the additional information according to claim 1.

4. Identification that identifies the additional information (1 2) and the additional information (1 2) created in HTML and generated for at least a part of the original information (10) in the original information. An electronic document with the code (13) embedded is A supplementary information display recording medium which records a display program for displaying the supplementary information (12) described in a description part hidden by a WWW browser from a recipient terminal device connected to the network,

When the display program retrieves the electronic document, it searches the electronic document for the identification code (13) selected in advance, and adds the additional information (12) specified by the identification code (13). Additional information extraction function for extracting the

An additional information display function of displaying the extracted additional information (12) near a display position where the partial information (10) corresponding to the additional information (12) is displayed;

A storage medium for displaying additional information, wherein the receiver terminal device can read and execute a display program.

5. The additional information (1 2) is a translation of the partial information (10) translated into another language, and the identification code (13) specifies the type of the translated language. Recording medium for displaying additional information described in item 4.