JP4946397B2 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing system, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing program.

  Conventionally, a search system for searching a desired document from a large amount of document information has been proposed. In such a search system, a plurality of search conditions, a narrow search, and the like are repeated to narrow down to a certain number of documents, and then each search result document is opened and the contents thereof are confirmed to obtain a desired document or page.

For this reason, the following Patent Document 1 discloses a search system that provides information such as pages or sections that satisfy a search condition included in a searched document.
JP 2005-92688 A

  By the way, for example, even if there are documents narrowed down by the search condition A and documents narrowed down by the search condition B, if you want to search for documents with the search condition C related to the search conditions A and B, do not use these documents. A new search condition C must be input to perform a document search.

  It is an object of the present invention to easily obtain another search result document by bundling search result documents obtained under a search condition.

  In order to achieve the above object, an information processing system according to claim 1 is characterized in that, based on a given search condition, search means for searching for a specific page from a document managed in page units, and the searched A search page generation unit that generates a search page including storage location designation information that designates a storage location of a specific page and a page number of the specific page, and a search document that includes one or more pages of the search page Corresponding to the search page according to the page turning, search document holding means for bundling, search document bundling means for bundling the plurality of search documents, page turning means for turning a search page constituting the search document, and An information processing apparatus having display control means for displaying image information of the specific page on a display means; and display means. .

  The invention of the information processing device according to claim 2 designates a search means for searching for a specific page from a document managed in units of pages based on a given search condition, and a storage location of the searched specific page. A search page generating means for generating a search page including storage location designation information and a page number of the specific page; a search document holding means for holding a search document composed of one or a plurality of pages of the search page; A search document bundling unit for bundling the search documents, a page turning unit for turning a search page constituting the search document, and image information of the specific page corresponding to the search page according to the page turn. Display control means for displaying on the means.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing program in which a computer searches a specific page from a document managed in units of pages based on a given search condition, and a storage location of the searched specific page. Search page generating means for generating a search page including storage location specifying information to be specified and a page number of the specific page, search document holding means for holding a search document composed of one or more pages of the search page, Search document bundling means for bundling the search documents, page turning means for turning the search pages constituting the search document, and image information of the specific page corresponding to the search page according to the page turning on the display means It is characterized by functioning as display control means for displaying.

  The invention according to claim 4 is the invention according to claim 3, wherein the search document bundling means bundles the search documents under a condition of union or intersection of the search conditions of each search document. .

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to the third or fourth aspect, the information processing program further includes: a search document correcting unit that corrects the content and order of search pages constituting the search document; It is made to function as.

  The invention according to claim 6 is that the invention according to any one of claims 3 to 5 further provides the computer with page information when the document to be searched does not have page information. It functions as a page breaker.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, by providing an information processing system that bundles a plurality of search documents and displays them on the display means, compared to the case where the present configuration is not provided, another search result document can be obtained. It can be easily obtained and the contents of the document can be easily confirmed.

  According to the invention of claim 2, by providing an information processing apparatus that bundles a plurality of search documents and displays them on the display means, a document with a different search result can be obtained as compared with a case where this configuration is not provided. It can be easily obtained and the contents of the document can be easily confirmed.

  According to the invention of claim 3, by providing an information processing program for bundling a plurality of search documents and displaying them on the display means, a document of a different search result can be obtained as compared with the case where this configuration is not provided. It can be easily obtained and the contents of the document can be easily confirmed.

  According to the invention of claim 4, a search document having a search condition union or product set condition can be obtained simply by bundling search documents. Input labor can be reduced.

  According to the invention of claim 5, since the contents and order of the documents obtained by the search can be corrected, it is possible to easily process the search documents compared with the case where the present configuration is not provided, and in order of priority. You can sort.

  According to the invention of claim 6, since page information is given when the search target document does not have page information, the search result can be easily displayed in page units as compared with the case where the document does not have this configuration. Can be handled.

  Hereinafter, the best mode for carrying out the present invention (hereinafter referred to as an embodiment) will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a configuration example in an embodiment of a search device according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, the search device includes a search document creation unit 10, an input reception unit 12, a page management unit 14, a search document bundling unit 16, a display control unit 18, a communication unit 19, and a storage unit 20.

  The search document creation unit 10 is realized by a central processing unit (CPU) and a program for controlling the processing operation of the CPU, and searches a specific page from a document managed in units of pages based on a given search condition. A search page including information specifying a specific page is generated. Further, a search document in which one or a plurality of generated search pages are bundled is created. The information for designating the specific page includes storage location designation information for designating the storage location of the specific page and the page number of the specific page. In addition to the information specifying the specific page, image information of the specific page may be added to the search page. As a search condition, a directory in which a document is stored, a character string, or the like can be used. It is preferable that this search condition is also embedded in the search document.

  The input receiving unit 12 is realized by the CPU and a program that controls the processing operation of the CPU, and receives a search instruction, a search condition, and the like input by the user from the input operation unit 22.

  The page management unit 14 is realized by the CPU and a program for controlling the processing operation of the CPU, and causes the display control unit 18 to display a small image of the search document on the display unit 24. The small image of the search document is a small image of the search page constituting the search document. The page management unit 14 also performs a process of turning a search page constituting a small image of the search document displayed on the display unit 24 on the display screen of the display unit 24. The page management unit 14 in this case functions as the page turning means of the present invention.

  The search pages are arranged according to the order in which the search document creation unit 10 creates the search documents, and the page management unit 14 uses the page turning process to search for the search pages in the order next to the currently displayed page. Display image information as a small image. At this time, the page management unit 14 performs a process of reading the specific page from the storage location based on information designating the specific page embedded in the search page newly displayed by turning the previous page. The display control unit 18 displays the read image information of the specific page on the display unit 24. Note that when image information of a specific page is added to the search page, the image information may be displayed.

  The page management unit 14 has a function of dividing the document into pages of a predetermined size when the document to be searched by the search document creation unit 10 is not divided by page (has no page information). It is suitable to have. The page management unit 14 in this case corresponds to the page delimiting means of the present invention.

  The search document bundling unit 16 is realized by a CPU and a program for controlling processing operations of the CPU, and performs a process of bundling a plurality of search documents. In this case, the search documents are bundled according to the union or intersection conditions of the search conditions used when creating each search document. In the case of bundling in a union set, only one of the search pages common in each search document is bundled, and all the search pages that are only in one of the search documents are bundled into one search document. In the case of bundling with a product set, only a common search page in each search document is bundled into one search document. Note that the user inputs instructions for the union or intersection set from the input operation unit 22.

  The display control unit 18 is realized by the CPU and a program that controls the processing operation of the CPU, and performs control for displaying the search page, the small image of the search document, the image information of the specific page, and the like on the display unit 24.

  The communication unit 19 is realized by an appropriate communication interface such as a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port or a network port, and exchanges document information and the like with another database for managing computer images.

  The storage unit 20 is realized by a random access memory (RAM) used as a work memory of the CPU or a magnetic storage device such as a hard disk device, and stores a program for controlling the processing operation of the CPU, a search document, and the like.

  The search document creation unit 10 includes a storage location designation information acquisition unit 100, a page number acquisition unit 102, a display image information acquisition unit 104, a search page generation unit 106, and a search document correction unit 108.

  The storage location designation information acquisition unit 100 acquires storage location designation information that designates the storage location of a specific page searched based on a given search condition. This storage location designation information is information indicating a storage location such as a directory in which a document including a specific page is stored. When there are a plurality of specific pages, the storage location designation information can be specified across different directories.

  The page number acquisition unit 102 acquires the page number of the searched specific page.

  The display image information acquisition unit 104 acquires image information for displaying a specific page by copying (copying) the specific page.

  The search page generation unit 106 generates a search page in which the storage location designation information and the page number of the specific page are embedded. As described above, since the storage location designation information and the page number of the specific page are embedded in the search page, it is possible to perform processing for acquiring and displaying the specific page by an operation for specifying the search page. Become. Note that, as described above, image information for display of a specific page acquired by the display image information acquisition unit 104 may be added to the search page.

  The search document correction unit 108 corrects the search document created by the search document creation unit 10. By this correction process, the contents and order of search pages constituting the search document are corrected. The modification of the contents of the search page includes changing the storage location designation information and specific page obtained by the search, deleting the search page, adding new information such as a page of another document, and the like. When pages of other documents are added, pages other than the search page are included in the search document that is a bundle of search pages.

  The input operation unit 22 is realized by an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse, and is used by a user to input desired search conditions. The display unit 24 is realized by a display device such as a liquid crystal display, and displays various types of information in accordance with instructions from the display control unit 18.

  Here, the search device and display unit 24 described above constitute a search document display system for displaying a search document.

  FIG. 2 shows a flow of an operation example of the search device according to the present embodiment. This example is an operation example when a search document is created by performing a search based on a given search condition.

  In FIG. 2, when a user inputs a search instruction including a search condition from the input operation unit 22, the input receiving unit 12 receives this search instruction (S 101), and the search document creation unit 10 creates a document based on the search condition. Is searched (S102). The search destination in this case is a document stored in advance in the storage unit 20 or another database connected via the communication unit 19. Further, the search document creation unit 10 at this time functions as a search unit of the present invention.

  The storage location designation information acquisition unit 100 of the search document creation unit 10 acquires storage location designation information for designating the storage location of the searched document based on the search condition (S103). Further, the page number acquisition unit 102 acquires the page number of the specific page that satisfies the search condition of the searched document (S104).

  Next, the search page generation unit 106 generates a search page in which the storage location designation information and the page number of the specific page are embedded (S105). Note that search conditions may be embedded in the search page.

  The search document creation unit 10 confirms whether or not there is an instruction to add image information for displaying the corresponding specific page to the created search page (S106). This instruction is included in the search instruction received in S101.

  If it is determined in S106 that image information is to be added, the display image information acquisition unit 104 acquires image information for display by copying the specific page (S107). The acquired image information is added to the search page by the search page generation unit 106 (S107).

  On the other hand, if it is determined in S106 that image information is not added, the process of adding image information is not executed.

  Next, the search document creation unit 10 creates a search document in which one or a plurality of search pages generated as described above are bundled. The search document creation unit 10 stores the search document in the storage unit 20 and holds it (S109).

  It should be noted that when the user inputs a re-search instruction, it is preferable to repeat the operation from S101. In addition, the search document as a search result is displayed on the display unit 24 by the display control unit 18.

  3A and 3B show display examples of search documents. FIG. 3A shows an example of a small image of a search document. FIG. 3B is an example of an image of each specific page specified by each search page constituting the search document displayed as a small image. These images are displayed on the display unit 24 by the display control unit 18 according to an instruction from the page management unit 14.

  In the example of FIG. 3A, the small image of the search document is composed of eight pages of search pages, and the first page (1/8) among them is displayed as a small image.

  Also, in FIG. 3B, a plurality of specific pages P are displayed in an overlapping manner, but this order is preferably the same as the order of the search pages constituting the search document of FIG. is there. The image of each specific page may be acquired from the storage location of the document by the page management unit 14 based on the storage location designation information embedded in each search page and the page number of the specific page, or is added to the search page in advance. Alternatively, display image data for a specific page may be used. Since the search document correction unit 108 may add a page other than the search page to the search document, a mark M indicating the search page is displayed on the search page. Note that it is preferable that an instruction for page turning processing to the page management unit 14 can be performed by the button B displayed on the screen.

  FIG. 4 shows a flow of another operation example of the search device according to the present embodiment. This example is an operation example in a case where image information of a specific page is displayed in accordance with a page turning instruction for a search page.

  In FIG. 4, when the user inputs a page turning instruction from the input operation unit 22, the input receiving unit 12 receives the page turning instruction (S201).

  The page management unit 14 performs a process of turning the page of the search document shown in FIG. 3A based on the page turning instruction. At this time, the page management unit 14 checks whether the next page of the currently displayed page of the search document, that is, the page to be displayed next by the page turning process is the search page (S202). This is because the search document correction unit 108 may add a page other than the search page to the search document bundle.

  In S202, when the page to be displayed next is a search page, the page management unit 14 checks whether or not display image information for a specific page is added to the search page (S203). When display image information for a specific page is added, the page management unit 14 acquires the image information from the search page (S204), and causes the display control unit 18 to display on the display unit 24 (S205). ).

  On the other hand, when the display image information for the specific page is not added in S203, the page management unit 14 stores the document including the specific page based on the information specifying the specific page included in the search page. Read from the location and acquire a specific page (S206). The acquired specific page is displayed on the display unit 24 by the display control unit 18 (S205).

  If the next page to be displayed is not the search page in S202, the display control unit 18 displays the page on the display unit 24 (S205).

  FIG. 5 shows a flow of still another operation example of the search device according to the present embodiment. This example is an operation example when a plurality of search documents are bundled.

  In FIG. 5, when the user inputs a search document bundling instruction from the input operation unit 22, the input receiving unit 12 receives the search document bundling instruction (S301). The search document bundling instruction includes information for designating search documents to be bundled.

  The search document bundling unit 16 acquires the search conditions for creating each search document specified by the search document bundling instruction from each search document (S302).

  Next, the user inputs a search document bundling method instruction from the input operation unit 22. This bundling method instruction is information for designating whether the search documents are to be bundled under the union or intersection of the search conditions of each search document. When the input receiving unit 12 receives the bundling method instruction (S303), it is checked whether or not the search document bundling unit 16 is instructed to bundle the union by the bundling method instruction (S304).

  If it is instructed in S304 to combine them under union conditions, only one of the search pages that are common to each search document is bundled, and all search pages that are unique to any search document are bundled. One search document is set (S305).

  On the other hand, in S304, when it is not instructed to bundle with the union condition, it is bundled with the product set condition. In this case, only the common search pages in each search document are bundled to form one search document (S306).

  The search document bundling unit 16 stores the search document generated in the above S305 or S306 in the storage unit 20 and causes the display control unit 18 to display the display document on the display unit 24 (S307).

  FIGS. 6A, 6B, and 6C are explanatory diagrams of search document bundling processing. In this example, the search document A shown in FIG. 6A is composed of eight pages of search pages, and the search document B shown in FIG. 6B is also composed of eight pages of search pages. Yes. When the search document A and the search document B are bundled by a product set of the search conditions of the search documents A and B, and the search document C shown in FIG. Only common search pages will be bundled. As a result, the number of pages of the search document C is reduced to 5 pages.

  When the search document A and the search document B are bundled as a union, a search page that is only one of the search documents A and B is added to the other search document, and the number of pages increases. become. However, the number of pages does not increase or decrease even when search documents each composed of a common search page are bundled.

  In the search document bundling process described above, a part of the search pages can be specified from the search document A and the search document B, and the part of the search pages can be bundled. Some search pages are specified by the search document bundling unit 16 based on an instruction input from the input operation unit 22 by the user.

  Also, the program for executing the steps of FIGS. 2, 4 and 5 may be provided via the communication unit 19, or may be provided by being stored in a storage medium such as a CDROM.

It is a block diagram of an example of composition in one embodiment of a search device concerning the present invention. It is a flowchart of the operation example in one Embodiment of the search device concerning this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of a search document. It is a flowchart of the other operation example in one Embodiment of the search device concerning this invention. It is a flowchart of the further another operation example in one Embodiment of the search device concerning this invention. It is explanatory drawing of the bundling process of a search document.

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  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Search document preparation part, 12 Input reception part, 14 Page management part, 16 Search document bundling part, 18 Display control part, 19 Communication part, 20 Storage part, 22 Input operation part, 24 Display part, 100 Storage location designation information acquisition Part, 102 page number acquisition part, 104 display image information acquisition part, 106 search page generation part, 108 search document correction part.

Claims (5)

A search means for searching for a specific page from documents managed in units of pages based on a given search condition;
Search page generation means for generating a search page including storage location designation information for designating a storage location of the searched specific page and a page number of the specific page;
Search document holding means for holding a search document composed of one or more pages of the search pages;
Search document bundling means for bundling a plurality of the search documents according to a condition of union or product set of search conditions of each search document ;
Page turning means for turning a search page constituting the search document;
Display control means for causing the display means to display image information of the specific page corresponding to the search page according to the page turning;
An information processing apparatus having
Display means;
An information processing system comprising: A search means for searching for a specific page from documents managed in units of pages based on a given search condition;
Search page generation means for generating a search page including storage location designation information for designating a storage location of the searched specific page and a page number of the specific page;
Search document holding means for holding a search document composed of one or more pages of the search pages;
Search document bundling means for bundling a plurality of the search documents according to a condition of union or product set of search conditions of each search document ;
Page turning means for turning a search page constituting the search document;
Display control means for causing the display means to display image information of the specific page corresponding to the search page according to the page turning;
An information processing apparatus comprising: Computer
Search means for searching for a specific page from documents managed in units of pages based on a given search condition,
Search page generation means for generating a search page including storage location designation information for designating a storage location of the searched specific page and a page number of the specific page;
Search document holding means for holding a search document composed of one or more pages of the search pages;
Search document bundling means for bundling a plurality of the search documents with the union or intersection conditions of the search conditions of each search document ;
A page turning means for turning a search page constituting the search document;
Display control means for causing the display means to display image information of the specific page corresponding to the search page according to the page turning;
Information processing program to function as The information processing program according to claim 3 , further causing the computer to function as search document correction means for correcting the contents and order of search pages constituting the search document. The information processing program according to claim 3 or 4 further causes a computer to function as a page delimiting means for adding page information when a document to be searched does not have page information. Information processing program.

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