JPH03260721A - data display device - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a data display device for displaying the contents of text data, video data, graphic data, etc. stored in a storage device.

Conventional Ω temporary fix Conventionally, there have been text data display devices that read and display text data stored in storage devices such as word processors and electronic file systems, video data display devices that read and display video data, and graphic data. Graphical data display devices that read and display the data are used.

The text data display device has a configuration as shown in FIG. 14, for example. That is, this text data display device includes a text data storage device W2O1 that stores text data as a data file, and a text data storage device W2O1 that stores text data as a data file, and a text data storage device W2O1 that stores text data editing application business programs (hereinafter referred to as programs) for editing text data. Editing application program storage device (hereinafter referred to as program storage device)
202, a display 203 for displaying text data, icons, etc., a pointing device 204 for selecting an icon displayed on the display 203, and text data for sensing that a program startup request has been made by the pointing device 204. An editing application program startup request sensing means (hereinafter referred to as program startup request sensing means) 205, and a text data editing application program startup means (hereinafter referred to as program startup request sensing means) that loads a program from the program storage device 202 to a main storage device (not shown) and starts it. Hereinafter, it will be referred to as the program starting means.)2
06, a text data file name manual means 207 for specifying a file in which text data is stored, and a text data file name manual means 207 for storing the text data of the file specified by the text data file name manual means 207 from the main memory from the text data storage device 201. Sentence data reading means 208 to be read into the device
and text data display means 209 for displaying the read text data on a display 203.

In such a text data display device, text data is displayed through the following operations.

First, when an icon indicating a program activation request is selected on the display 203 by the pointing device 204, the program activation request sensing means 205 senses this, and the program activation means 206 starts the program from the program storage device 202. Load it onto the storage device and start it.

When the program is started and a file name is input by the text data file name manual means 207, the text data reading means 208 reads the text data of the file from the text data storage device 201 to the main storage device, and the text data display means 209 outputs this to the display 203.

Further, as shown in FIG. 15, the video data display device also has the following features:
Similar to the above text data display device, a video data storage device 221, a video data editing application program storage device 222, a display 223, a pointing device 224, a video data editing application program startup request sensing means 225, A data editing application program starting means 226, a moving image data file name manual means 227, a moving image data reading means 228, and a moving image data displaying means 229 are provided. Video data is displayed on the display 223 in response to operations and the like.

Similarly, the graphic data display device also includes a graphic data storage device 211, a graphic data editing application program storage device 212, and a display 21, as shown in FIG.
3, pointing device 214, graphic data editing application program activation request sensing means 215, graphic data editing application program activation means 216, graphic data file name manual means 217, graphic data reading means 218, graphic data A pointing device 214 is provided with a reduced display means 219 and
Graphic data is displayed on the display 213 in response to operations such as , input operations of file names, and the like.

The graphic data reduction display means 219 may reduce the graphic data or enlarge the window as necessary, depending on the size of the display 213 or the size of the window on the display 213. ,
The entire graphic data can be displayed.

By the way, displaying text data, etc. is not necessarily limited to when editing the text data, etc., but also when you simply want to check the content of the text data, etc., or when you want to get an overview of the content. It is also done in cases.

However, even in such a case, with the conventional data display device described above, it is necessary to start a program, input a file name, etc. each time.

That is, not only complicated operations are required, but also the time lag until text data etc. are displayed becomes long.

Furthermore, when displaying graphic data, the display 2
13, or when the entire graphic data is not displayed within the window, it is necessary to reduce the graphic data or enlarge the window as appropriate, and - layer operations become complicated.

In addition, in order to be able to quickly and accurately grasp the outline of the contents of text data, etc., it is possible to create summary text data as separate text data, but even in this case, it is still necessary to start the program. In addition to requiring operations, the text data and the summary text data of the text data are the same text data, so data management on the operator side is required to create a relationship between the two. Become.

Therefore, conventional data display devices have a problem in that it is not possible to quickly confirm the contents or grasp the outline of data stored in a storage device, such as text data, with simple operations.

In particular, in recent years, computer systems based on multi-window systems have become popular, and data display devices in multi-window environments are widely used. Since it is often necessary to check the contents of text data, etc., the above problem becomes even more serious.

In view of the above points, the present invention aims to provide a data display device that can easily and quickly check the contents and grasp the outline of text data etc. stored in a storage device.

In order to achieve the above object, a first invention provides a content explanation data storage device that stores content explanation data indicating the content of main body data stored in a storage device in association with the main body data. , a display that displays an icon corresponding to the main body data and content explanation data, a pointing device for selecting the icon displayed on the display, and a pointing device that indicates that a request to form a blank space on the icon has been made. A control means for sensing and forming a blank space on an icon, and displaying content explanatory data of the main body data corresponding to the icon with the blank space in the blank space by the number of characters that can be displayed. It is a feature.

A second invention provides a content explanation data storage device that stores content explanation data indicating the content of body data stored in a storage device in association with the body data, an icon corresponding to the body data, and content explanation data. a display for displaying a display, a pointing device for selecting an icon displayed on the display, and a pointing device that senses that a request has been made to form a margin on the icon, forms a margin on the icon, and selects the icon displayed on the display; The present invention is characterized by comprising a control means for displaying the content explanation data of the main body data corresponding to the icon in which the section is formed in the margin section in a font size that allows the entire content explanation data to be displayed.

A third invention provides a text data storage device for storing text data, an icon corresponding to the text data, a display for displaying the text data, a pointing device for selecting an icon displayed on the display, and a pointing device. detects that a request has been made to create a blank space on an icon, creates a blank space on the icon, searches for a summary part from the text data corresponding to the icon for which the blank space has been formed, and creates a summary part. The present invention is characterized by comprising a control means for displaying in the blank space.

A fourth invention provides a graphic data storage device for storing graphic data, an icon corresponding to the graphic data, a display for displaying the graphic data, a pointing device for selecting an icon displayed on the display, and a pointing device. detects that a request has been made to create a blank space on an icon, creates a blank space on the icon, and transfers the graphic data corresponding to the icon with the blank space to the blank space, so that the entire graphic data is stored in the blank space. The present invention is characterized by comprising a control means for displaying at a displayable reduction ratio.

According to the above configuration, by simply selecting an icon displayed on the display with a pointing device and requesting that a margin be formed on the icon, a margin will be automatically formed on the icon, and the margin will be automatically created. Content explanatory data, a summary portion of text data, graphic data, etc. are displayed in the margin area with the number of characters, character size, or reduction ratio depending on the size of the margin area.

1 A first embodiment of the present invention will be described based on FIGS. 1 to 3.

Figure 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the data display device, Figure 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the data display device.
The figure is a perspective view showing the external appearance of the data display device, Fig. 3(a)
-(d) are explanatory diagrams showing display examples of the display 12.

The data display device, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2,
A data processing device 11 which is a control means, and a display 1
2 and a mouse 13 which is a pointing device.

As shown in FIGS. 3(a) to 3(d), the display 12 displays icons 10 corresponding to text data, which is main data stored in a text data storage device (not shown).
1, a mouse cursor 102, text summary data 104 which is content explanation data indicating the content of the main data, and the like. The mouse 13 also includes push button switches 13a and 13b, and by pressing the push button switches 13a and 13b, the icon 101 displayed on the display 12 can be selected.

The data processing device 11 includes a text summary data storage device 14 that stores text summary data, which is a summary of text data, in association with the text data, and a text summary data storage device 14 that forms a blank space 103 in an icon 101 as shown in FIG. 3(C). an icon margin forming request sensing means 15 for sensing that a request to do so has been made by the mouse 13; an icon margin forming means 16 for forming the margin 103; and a margin for calculating the size of the margin 103. a size calculation means 17; a displayable character number calculation means 18 that calculates the number of characters that can be displayed in the margin section 103 based on the calculated size of the margin section 103;
An icon title data storage device 19 that stores the title data of the icon 101 in which the margin portion 103 is formed, an icon title data reading means 20 that reads the icon title data from the icon title data storage device 19, and an icon title data reading device 20 that stores the title data of the icon 101 in which the margin portion 103 is formed; A text summary data reading means 21 reads out text summary data from the text summary data storage device W14 using the data as a key, and a text summary data reading means 21 reads out text summary data from the text summary data storage device W14, and reads out text summary data from the margin section 103.
A sentence summary data display means 22 for displaying only the number of characters calculated by the displayable character number calculation means 18 is provided.

An example of displaying text summary data on the display 12 in the above configuration will be described.

First, as shown in FIG. 3(a), it is assumed that an icon 101 corresponding to text data named "sample data" and a mouse cursor 102 are displayed on the display 12.

Therefore, by operating the mouse 13, the mouse cursor 102
is moved to the position of the icon 101 as shown in FIG. 3(b), and the push button switch 13a of the mouse 13 is pressed. Then, by further operating the mouse to move the mouse cursor 102 downward while holding down the push button switch 13a, the margin 103 of the icon 101 is moved downward.
requires the formation of

Then, the icon margin formation request means 15 senses this margin formation request, and the icon margin formation request means 16
However, as shown in FIG. 3(C), the icon 101 is enlarged to the position of the moved mouse cursor 102, and the margin area 1 is
Form 03.

In this state, when the press of the push button switch 13a is released, the size of the margin section 103 is fixed, the margin section size calculation means 17 calculates the size of the margin section 103, and the displayable character number calculation means 18 calculates the size of the margin section 103. The number of characters that can be displayed in section 103 is calculated. Further, the icon title data reading means 20 reads the title data of the icon 101 from the icon title data storage device 19, and the sentence summary data reading means 21 uses this icon title data as a key to read out the title data of the icon 101 from the sentence summary data storage device 14. , the text summary data of the text data corresponding to the icon 101 is read out.

The text summary data display means 22 then displays the data as shown in FIG. 3(d).
As shown, in the margin 103 of the icon 101,
The sentence summary data 104 is displayed by the number of characters calculated by the displayable character number calculation means 18. Here, the margin section 103 may be formed using a multi-window system, and the text summary data 104 may be displayed.

In this way, simply by selecting the icon 101 with the mouse 13 and requesting the formation of the margin section 103, the text summary data of the text data is automatically displayed, allowing you to check the content of the text data and get an accurate summary. It is possible to quickly understand the situation.

Further, for example, when the push button 13b is pressed while the mouse cursor 102 is moved to the position of the icon 101 before or after enlargement, the text data editing application program or the like may be started. . In this case, the reference state of the text summary data and the editing state of the text data can be instantly switched, so that the efficiency of editing work, etc. can be improved.

In the first embodiment, an example has been described in which the text summary data reading unit 21 reads text summary data using the icon title data read from the icon title data storage device 19 as a key, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, any device that can read the text summary data of the text data corresponding to the icon 101 may be used, such as one that uses information attached to the icon 101 as a key.

Further, the pointing device is not limited to the mouse 13, and may be, for example, a light pen, a digitizer, or a keyboard, as long as it points to a specific position on the display 12.

In addition, the icon 101 can be enlarged using the mouse cursor 102.
The margin area 1 is automatically enlarged to a predetermined size by a specific operation, not only by moving the blank area 1.
03 may be formed.

In addition, the number of characters that can be displayed in the margin area 103 is calculated based on the number of characters that can be displayed in the margin area 103 calculated by the margin area size calculation means 17.
For example, the coordinates of the four corners of the margin section 103 or the two diagonal corners may be directly determined using a table or the like.

Further, the number of characters displayed in the margin area 103 is not controlled by the text summary data display means 22, but the text summary data reading means 21 controls the number of characters that can be displayed by the displayable character number calculation means 18.
This may be done by reading out from the sentence summary data storage device 14 the number of characters calculated by
The display position of the character string sequentially displayed in 03 is the margin part 10.
It may also be possible to display the image until it reaches a predetermined position (for example, the lower right corner) of No. 3.

-1 The second embodiment of the present invention is shown in Figs. 3(a) to (C), Fig. 4,
This will be explained based on FIG.

Figure 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the data display device, Figure 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the data display device.
The figure is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display on the display 12. In the second embodiment, an example of a data display device will be described in which the main data is video data and the content explanation data is video content summary data as a summary of the content of the video data. In the second embodiment, the same means and devices as in the first embodiment are given the same numbers and the explanation thereof will be omitted.

As shown in FIG. 4, the data display device includes a data processing device 61 as a control means, a display 12, and a mouse 13 as a pointing device.

Compared to the data processing device 11 of the first embodiment, the data processing device 61 has a summary of the contents of video data stored in a video data storage device (not shown) instead of the text summary data storage device 14. In place of the video content summary data storage device 62 that stores video content summary data in association with the video data, and the text summary data reading means 21,
In place of the video content summary data reading means 63 for reading video content summary data from the video content summary data storage device 62 and the text summary data display means 22, the video content summary data can be displayed in the margin area 103 of the icon 101. A video content summary data display means 64 for displaying only the number of characters calculated by the character number calculation means 18 is provided.

In the above configuration, by the same operation as in the first embodiment, the icon 1 is displayed as shown in FIGS.
01, the margin area size calculation means 17 calculates the size of the margin area 103, and the displayable character number calculation means 18 calculates the number of characters that can be displayed in the margin area 103.

Further, the icon title data reading means 20 reads the title data of the icon 101 from the icon title data storage device 19, and uses this icon title data as a key to read out the title data of the icon 101, and uses the icon title data as a key to read out the title data of the icon 101 from the video content summary data reading means 6.
3 is the icon 1 from the video content summary data storage device 62
The video content summary data of the video data corresponding to 01 is read out.

Then, as shown in FIG. 5, the video content summary data display means 64 displays the number of characters calculated by the displayable character number calculation means 18 in the margin 103 of the icon 101.
Video content summary data 104 is displayed.

In addition, in the first embodiment and the second embodiment, the main body data is text data or video data,
Although an example of a data display device in which the content explanation data is text summary data or video content summary data has been described, the main body data and content explanation data are not limited to this. For example, the main body data is measurement data, and the content explanation data is measurement conditions. It can also be applied to cases such as comments, comments, etc., and can improve the efficiency of measurement data processing work.

The third embodiment of the 3-dimensional invention is shown in FIGS. 3(a) to (C), FIG.
This will be explained based on FIG.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the data display device, and FIG.
The figure is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display on the display 12. In addition, in this third embodiment, the first embodiment or the second embodiment
Means and devices similar to those in the embodiments will be given the same numbers and their explanations will be omitted.

As shown in FIG. 6, the data display device includes a data processing device 31 as a control means, a display 12, and a mouse 13 as a pointing device.

The data processing bag 231 is not provided with displayable character number calculation means 18, as compared to the data processing device 11 of the first embodiment. On the other hand, the text summary data reading means 2
1, the character number counting means 32 counts the number of characters in the sentence summary data read out from the sentence summary data storage device 14 by the character number counting means 32, the number of characters in the sentence summary data obtained by the character number counting means 32, and the margin size calculation means 17. Font size determining means 33 is provided for determining the size of characters that can display all of the text summary data in the margin section 103 based on the calculated size of the margin section 103. Furthermore, in place of the sentence summary data display means 22 of the first embodiment, a sentence summary data display means 34 is provided which displays the sentence summary data in the margin area 103 in the font size determined by the font size determination means 33. It is provided.

In the above configuration, by the same operation as in the first embodiment, the icon 1 is displayed as shown in FIGS.
A blank space 103 is formed in 01, and the icon 1
When the sentence summary data of the sentence data corresponding to 01 is read out, the character number counting means 32 counts the number of characters of the sentence summary data, and calculates the obtained number of characters and the size of the margin part 103 calculated by the margin part size calculation means 17. Based on the margin area 1, the font size determining means 33
03, determine the font size that can display all of the text summary data.

Then, the text summary data display means 34 displays the text summary data 104 in the margin section 103 in the character size determined above, as shown in FIG.

In other words, even if the text summary data 104 has a large number of characters, all of them are automatically displayed in the blank space 103 of the icon 101, so that the content of the text data can be confirmed with a simple operation. can.

Note that if the entire sentence summary data cannot be displayed even with the smallest font size that can be displayed on the display 12, the size of the margin section 103 may be enlarged as appropriate.

The fourth embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS. 3(a) to (C), FIG.
This will be explained based on FIG.

Figure 8 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the data display device;
The figure is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display on the display 12. In the fourth embodiment, as in the second embodiment, the main data is video data, and the content explanation data is video content summary data as a summary of the content of the video data. Explain. In the fourth embodiment, the same means and devices as those in the first to third embodiments are given the same numbers and their explanations will be omitted.

As shown in FIG. 8, the data display device includes a data processing device 71 as a control means, a display 12, and a mouse 13 as a pointing device.

Compared to the data processing device 31 of the third embodiment, the data processing device 71 includes a video content summary data storage device 62 instead of the text summary data storage device 14, and a video content summary data storage device 62 instead of the text summary data reading means 21. In place of the content summary data reading means 63 and character number counting means 32, character number counting means 72 for counting the number of characters of the video content summary data read out by the video content summary data reading means 63, and in place of the font size determining means 33. , display all of the video content summary data in the margin section 103 based on the number of characters of the video content summary data obtained by the character number counting means 72 and the size of the margin section 103 calculated by the margin section size calculation means 17. Font size determining means 7 for determining possible character sizes
3. Also, instead of the text summary data display means 34, a video content summary data display means 74 is provided for displaying the video content summary data in the margin area 103 in the font size determined by the font size determination means 73. It is composed of

In the above configuration, by the same operation as in the first embodiment, the icon 1 is displayed as shown in FIGS.
A blank space 103 is formed in 01, and the icon 1
When the video content summary data of the video data corresponding to 01 is read out, the number of characters counting means 72 counts the number of characters of the video content summary data, and the obtained number of characters and the margin part 103 calculated by the margin part size calculation means 17 are calculated. Based on the size of the font size determining means 73,
The size of characters that can display all of the video content summary data in the margin section 103 is determined.

Then, as shown in FIG. 9, the video content summary data display means 74 displays the video content summary data 108 in the margin area 103 in the font size determined above.

That is, even if the video content summary data 10B has a large number of characters, all of them are automatically displayed in the margin 103 of the icon 101, so the content of the video data can be reliably confirmed with a simple operation. .

1 A fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described based on FIGS. 3(a) to (C), FIG. 10, and FIGS. 11(a) and (b).

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the data display device, and FIGS. 11(a) and 11(b) are explanatory diagrams showing display examples of the display 12. In addition, in the present fifth embodiment, the first
Means and devices similar to those in the embodiments to the fourth embodiment are given the same numbers and their explanations are omitted.

The data display device of the fifth embodiment is configured to automatically extract and display a summary portion from text data even if text summary data has not been created.

As shown in FIG. 10, the data display device includes a data processing device 41 as a control means, a display 12, and a mouse 13 as a pointing device.

The data processing device 41 includes a text data storage device 42 for storing text data, an icon margin formation request sensing means 15, an icon margin formation means 16, a margin size calculation means 17, and a displayable character number calculation means. 18, the icon title data storage device 19, the icon title data reading means 20, and the icon title data read out by the icon title data reading means 20 as keys to read text data from the text data storage device 42, and read the text data from the text data storage device 42. A reading/searching means 43 for searching for a summary part from text data, a search success flag 44 for holding the search result of the reading/searching means 43, a character count means 32 for counting the number of characters in the summary part, A font size determining means 33 that calculates the size of characters that can display the entire summary portion based on the number of characters and the size of the margin section 103, and a text data display means 45 are provided.

The text data display means 45 is the readout/search means 4
If a summary part is found through the text data search in step 3, the summary part is displayed in the margin area 10 with the font size determined by the font size determining means 33.
On the other hand, if the summary part is not found, a predetermined part of the text data is displayed in the margin part 1 by the number of characters calculated by the displayable character number calculation means 18.
03.

In the above configuration, by the same operation as in the first embodiment, the icon 1 is displayed as shown in FIGS.
01, the reading/search means 43 reads text data corresponding to the icon 101 with the blank space 103 formed from the text data storage device 42, and searches for a summary part from the text data. do. More specifically, it is assumed that a summary of the text data is written, such as a paragraph containing a character string such as "Abstract", rAbstr'actg, or [Claims J]. Explore the parts. Note that this reading and searching is performed by, for example, executing a routine that searches for character strings in data stored in a storage device, which is usually provided in a computer system, and after a predetermined character string is retrieved, the summary section is may be read out.

When the reading/search means 43 finds a summary part in the text data, a search success flag 44 is set. Further, the number of characters in the summary part is counted by the character number counting means 32, and based on this count result and the size of the margin part 103 calculated by the margin part size calculation means 17, the font size determining means 33 calculates the total number of characters in the summary part. The size of characters that can be displayed in the margin section 103 is determined. Then, the text data display means 45 displays the above-determined character size as shown in FIG. 11(a).
A summary portion 105 of text data is displayed in a margin portion 103.

On the other hand, if no summary portion is found in the text data, the search success flag 44 is reset. Then, as shown in FIG. 11(b), the text data display means 45 displays a predetermined part of the text data, for example, the beginning part 106, by the number of characters calculated by the displayable character number calculation means 18 in the margin area 103. to be displayed.

Here, it is determined whether the text data display means 45 performs display based on the character size calculated by the font size determination means 33 or the number of characters calculated by the displayable character number calculation means 18. It is switched depending on whether the success flag 44 is set or not. In addition, character count means 3
2. Activation or inactivation of the font size determining means 33 and the displayable character number calculating means 18 may be similarly switched depending on whether the search success flag 44 is set or reset.

A sixth embodiment of the present invention will be described based on FIGS. 3(a) to 3(C), FIG. 12, and FIG. 13.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the data display device, and FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of display on the display 12. In the sixth embodiment, the same means and devices as those in the first to fifth embodiments are given the same reference numerals and their explanations will be omitted.

As shown in FIG. 12, the data display device includes a data processing device 51 as a control means, a display 12, and a mouse 13 as a pointing device.

The display 12, as shown in FIGS. 3(a) to 3(C) or FIG.
Icon 10 corresponding to the graphic data stored in 2
1, mouse cursor 102, and graphic data 107
etc. are displayed.

The data processing device 51 includes a graphic data storage device 52 that stores graphic data, and an icon margin formation request sensing unit 1.
5, an icon margin forming means 16, a margin size calculating means 17, an icon title data storage device 19 for storing title data of the icon 101, an icon title data reading means 20, using the icon title data as a key, a graphic data reading means 53 for reading graphic data from the graphic data storage bag W52;
Reducing the graphic data so that all of the graphic data can be displayed in the margin area 103 based on the size of the read graphic data and the size of the margin area 103 calculated by the margin size calculation means 17. The graphic data reduction rate calculation means 54 calculates the reduction ratio, the graphic data reduction means 55 reduces the graphic data at the reduction ratio, and the graphic data display means 56 displays the reduced graphic data. There is.

In the above configuration, by the same operation as in the first embodiment, the icon 1 is displayed as shown in FIGS.
01, the graphic data reading means 53 reads the icon 10 stored in the graphic data storage device i52 using the icon title data read from the icon title data storage device 19 as a key.
Read the graphic data corresponding to 1.

Then, the graphic data reduction rate calculation means 54 converts all of the graphic data into the margin based on the size of the read graphic data and the 4° size of the margin 103 calculated by the margin size calculation means 17. 103
Calculate the reduction rate of graphic data that can be displayed on the screen. The graphic data reduction means 55 reduces the graphic data at the calculated reduction rate, and the graphic data display means 56
As shown in FIG. 3, the reduced figure is displayed in the margin area 103.

That is, even if the graphic data is large, all of it is automatically displayed in the margin section 103 of the icon 101, so the content of the graphic data can be reliably confirmed with a simple operation.

As explained above, according to the present invention, it is possible to check the contents of data stored in a storage device, such as text data, video data, graphic data, etc., and to grasp an accurate outline using a simple operation. Moreover, it has the effect of being able to be carried out quickly.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 13 show embodiments of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a data display device, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of the data display device, and FIG. 3(a) ~(d
) is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display, FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of another data display device, FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display, and FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display, FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the configuration of another data display device, FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display, FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing the configuration of yet another data display device, and FIG. 11(a) (
b) is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display, FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing the configuration of another data display device, and FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display. 14 to 16 show conventional examples, FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a text data display device, FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a video data display device, and FIG. 16 is a graphic data display FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the device. 11.31.41.51.61.71...Data processing device (control means), 12...Display, 13...
- Mouse (pointing device), 14... Text summary data storage device (content explanation data storage device), 42... Text data storage device, 52... Graphic data storage device, 62... Video content summary data storage device (
content description data storage device), 101... icon, 1
03...Margin area, 104...Text summary data (content explanation data), 105...Summary part, 107...Graphic data, 108...Video content summary data (content explanation data) FIG.

Claims (4)

[Claims] (1) A content explanation data storage device that stores content explanation data indicating the contents of the main body data stored in the storage device in association with the main body data, and displays an icon corresponding to the main body data and the content explanation data. a display; a pointing device for selecting an icon displayed on the display; and a pointing device that senses that a request to form a margin on an icon has been made, forms a margin on the icon, and causes the margin to be formed. A data display device comprising: control means for displaying content explanation data of main body data corresponding to the icon displayed in the blank space as many as the number of characters that can be displayed. (2) A content explanation data storage device that stores content explanation data indicating the contents of the main body data stored in the storage device in association with the main body data, and displays an icon corresponding to the main body data and the content explanation data. a display; a pointing device for selecting an icon displayed on the display; and a pointing device that senses that a request to form a margin on an icon has been made, forms a margin on the icon, and causes the margin to be formed. 2. A data display device comprising: control means for displaying content explanation data of main body data corresponding to an icon displayed in the margin in a font size that allows all of the content explanation data to be displayed. (3) a text data storage device that stores text data; an icon that corresponds to the text data; a display that displays the text data; a pointing device that selects the icon displayed on the display; Detects that a request to create a margin has been made, creates a margin in the icon, searches for a summary part from the text data corresponding to the icon for which the margin has been formed, and inserts the summary part into the margin. A data display device comprising: a control means for displaying information on a portion of the screen; (4) A graphic data storage device for storing graphic data, an icon corresponding to the graphic data, a display for displaying the graphic data, a pointing device for selecting the icon displayed on the display, and a pointing device for selecting an icon. A blank space is formed on the icon by sensing that a request has been made to create a blank space, and the graphic data corresponding to the icon for which the blank space has been formed can be displayed in its entirety in the blank space. A data display device comprising: a control means for displaying at a reduction rate; and a data display device.