JPH01196659A - document processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document processing device, and more particularly to a document processing device having a document data display function, such as a workstation, mixed mode terminal, or word processor.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in this type of device, when reading a document on a display screen, charts, etc. to be referred to are located on other pages, which prevents quick understanding of the document.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] The present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, and its purpose is to provide a document processing device that allows users to easily call up and view charts, tables, etc. that they wish to refer to on the same screen. It's about doing.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the document processing device of the present invention has the following features:
a table means for storing specific word information in the document file information and address information of partial document information associated with the word information; an instruction means for instructing the specific word information in the displayed document file information; reading means for reading out partial document information from the document file information according to the corresponding address information by referring to the table means using the instructed word information; and a reading means for reading out the partial document information from the document file information in accordance with the corresponding address information; The outline thereof is to include a display control means for displaying an image of information.

[Operation] In such a configuration, the table means stores in advance specific word information in the document file information (for example, "Figure 1") and partial document information (for example, "Figure 1") associated with the word information. Address information of the figure information part) is stored. An instruction means, such as a pointing device, indicates specific word information (for example, "Fig. 1") in the document file information displayed on the screen. The reading means refers to the table means with the instructed word information and reads out partial document information (a portion of graphic information associated with the word "Figure 1") from the document file information according to the corresponding address information. The display control means displays an image (figure) of the read partial document information at a predetermined position in the displayed document file information (for example, near the top or bottom of the line containing the words "FIG. 1").

[Description of Embodiments] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment. In the figure, 1 is a central processing unit (CPU), which is responsible for the main control of the apparatus of this embodiment. A read-only memory (ROM) 2 stores, for example, the processing programs shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 of the embodiment. 3
is a CRT display unit (CRT), which displays document file data (text data, graphic data, image data, etc.) as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, for example. 4
is the keyboard (KBD), and if necessary document data,
Manipulate control data, etc. 5 is a random access memory (RAM), and the RAM 5 stores document file data (
an area 51 for storing specific word information in the document file data and address information of partial document data related to diagrams and the like associated with the word information in a table form; It includes an area 53 for storing image data (bitmap data) for the relevant display page of file data, and an area 54 for storing image data of chart data read out with reference to the drawing reference table 52. A pointing device (PD) 6 manually inputs coordinate information for controlling a cursor K displayed on the CRTa. 7 is CPU
This is a common bus for I.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a CRT output screen according to the embodiment. In the figure, "in Figure 1", "a", "b" on the screen
The image of words such as ``ha'' cannot be understood unless one directly looks at the figures in Figure 1 on other pages.

FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 2. In the figure, the user moves the cursor K using the PD6 using a mouse, for example, and encloses the words "Figure 1" on the screen with a square.
Furthermore, place the head of the cursor within this square and perform a click operation (designation operation). The position tα of the word code data of "Fig. 1" in the document file data can be detected by tracing the inverse of the bitmap conversion from these coordinate values, so that the word code data can be extracted. As a result, the drawing reference table 52 is referred to, the corresponding partial document data (graphic data corresponding to FIG. 1) is extracted, and this information is bit mapped into the image data area 54.

Then, the content of the image data area 54 is placed above the line containing the word "Figure 1" surrounded by the cursor (-nth line).
Alternatively, the sentence meaning data is inserted and displayed at the position between the lines at the bottom (+nth line) so as to be pushed apart. Alternatively, instead of pushing them apart, the document data in that range is hidden and displayed in an overlapping manner.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a graphical display. When displaying them separately, it is sufficient to scroll in the line direction between the lines, and words such as "a wa" and "b wa" in the original sentence are not hidden. Also, if you want to display them overlappingly, the first
By moving the diagram up, down, left, and right, you can easily see sentences hidden behind the diagram, such as words such as "C wa" and "d wa".

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating the structure of the drawing reference table of the embodiment. In the figure, the "Mnemonic" column contains, for example, predetermined words extracted and registered by the user when creating the document data (words that refer to figures such as "Figure 1" and "Graph J"). It is memorized. Also, "The page J shelf has the corresponding! #
Page number (16,
21 etc.) are stored. Further, the "start line" column stores the start line number of the graphic data, etc., and the "end line" column stores the end line number. This is convenient because the correspondence information can be referenced line by line rather than page by page. It should be noted that such a drawing reference table 52 is always useful when displaying and reading completed document file information, so it is collectively managed along with the document file information. Therefore, it is extremely effective in applications where a large amount of technical literature information is called up one after another, displayed, and understood (information retrieval, educational systems).

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the display processing procedure of the embodiment. In the figure, in step S1, 1 of the document file information is
Display one page on the display screen.

In step S2, instructions from the user are awaited.

The user uses the mouse or the like to manually instruct the display of a word that refers to a figure, table, etc. (or any other partial text) using the method described above. Thereby, the flow advances to step S50, and display processing of the designated chart information is performed. If there is no instruction input from the user, the process proceeds to step S4, where it is determined whether or not there is a request to output another page. If you want to output another page, step S1
Returns to , and if it is a processing end request, the display processing of the document file is ended.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing details of the display processing of FIG. 5. In the figure, in step S51, the coordinates manually entered using the mouse are checked. In steps 352 to S54, a location where real information such as a chart is stored is searched from the manually entered coordinates, and a portion of the chart information is displayed on the CRT 3. In step S55, an instruction input from the user is awaited. In step s56, if the instruction input is to move the display position of chart information, the process advances to step S57, and a display position movement process is performed. If the instruction input is a request to erase chart information, the process advances to step 358, and, for example, the overlapping display of chart information is erased.

In the description of the above embodiment, the document information was specified using a mouse, but other methods, such as manually inputting the registration number of a figure or table from a keyboard, may also be used.

Furthermore, in addition to moving overlapping charts on the screen, we are also considering adding functions that would allow them to change the size of the charts themselves to make them easier to see, and to display multiple charts in parallel or overlapping each other. It will be done.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, the document information that explains the content and the diagram information that is the object of the explanation are easily combined and displayed on the screen, so that the document information can be understood extremely quickly.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document processing device according to an embodiment, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a CRT output screen according to an embodiment, FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged view of the second part, and FIG. 4 is an example of a chart display. FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the display processing procedure of the embodiment, FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing details of the display processing of FIG. 5, and FIG. 7 is a diagram explaining the structure of the drawing reference table of the embodiment. be. In the figure, 1... central processing unit (C
PU), 2... Read only memory (ROM), 3
...CRT display unit (C'RT), 4.
...Keyboard (KBD), 5...Random access memory (RAM), 6...Pointing device (
PD),? ...This is a common path. −,,t ”j:: Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, Figure 5

Claims (1)

[Claims] Table means storing specific word information in document file information and address information of partial document information associated with the word information; an instruction means for giving an instruction; and referring to the table means with the instructed word information;
The apparatus further comprises: reading means for reading partial document information from the document file information according to corresponding address information; and display control means for displaying an image of the read partial document information at a predetermined position in the displayed document file information. A document processing device characterized by: