JPH08320876A - Multimedia manual generation support system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide the multimedia generation support system which can generate an easy-to-see manual containing moving pictures at low cost in a short time. CONSTITUTION: This system is equipped with an animation data dictionary constituted by constituting nouns and verbs on an object orientation basis like a thesaurus, defining image data on the outward appearance or feature of noun data for the noun data and data structure employing a valency method for verb data, defining instances of the noun data for their properties, using operation featuring the valency information as a method, and defining a sound as one property when the sound is present; and the document of the manual is divided into paragraphs, nouns and verbs are extracted from each paragraph of the document and used as keys to take data out of the dictionary, and the nouns and verbs are related with respective instances to generate moving picture data and constitute paragraph data. Then the respective paragraph data are linked time sequentially and related with one another.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multimedia manual creation support system using an object-oriented image thesaurus dictionary and a valence method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, manuals such as how to use the equipment have come out in videos, but the mainstream is documents (text display). Recently, it is often provided as electronic data such as a CD-ROM, and the operability is good and the search and the like can be easily performed.

[0003]

In the case of a manual (including electronic ones) provided in a document, the user must understand the operation of the device by reading the text, and when the actual operation is performed. I do not know the condition or movement of the device. Therefore, it may not be possible to obtain a solid understanding.

On the other hand, the manual provided by the video makes it possible to obtain a clear understanding of the state and movement of the device. However, while it is easy and effective to follow the flow from beginning to end, it is difficult to find the part of the manual that you need. In other words, it is difficult to use the video manual unless it is used in a written manual.

As described above, a manual in a document is strong in searching and can be referred to a point to be known, but it is difficult to obtain a deep understanding because the state and movement are unknown. On the other hand, a manual in video is a target device. Since the state and movement can be clearly understood, deep understanding can be obtained, but there is a problem that it is weak in search and it is not possible to easily refer to the point you want to know.

In order to solve these problems, some recent manuals have made it possible to interactively refer to moving images along with sentences. However, this is a still image or moving image that was created (captured) specifically for the target device or system, and cannot be used for other device or system manuals.

From the side of the creator of the manual,
It should be easy to make a written manual both empirically and work, and it should be possible to do it in a short time at low cost. Therefore, although it is known that an easy-to-understand manual can be created by incorporating moving images, it is costly to execute it, and there are many disadvantages in terms of time.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object thereof is to provide a multimedia manual creation support system capable of creating an easy-to-understand manual incorporating a moving image at low cost in a short period of time. is there.

[0009]

According to the present invention, (1) a noun and a verb of a sentence of a manual are constructed in a thesaurus in an object-oriented manner, and the noun data defines image data that looks or characterizes the noun data. Define a data structure that incorporates the valence method for data, define instances of noun data for those attributes, and define the behavior that characterizes the valence information as a method, and if there is sound, as one of the attributes. (2) The sentence of the manual is divided into paragraphs, the nouns and verbs are extracted from the sentences of each paragraph, and the data is taken out from the animation data dictionary using it as a key. , The noun data instance and the verb data instance are related to each other to create the moving image data and the paragraph data. And each paragraph data is linked in time series with each other to relate them to each other. (3) The noun data and verb data corresponding to the animation data dictionary do not exist, When an image cannot be created or a moving image is to be video-recorded specially, video data is created and registered in the paragraph data.

[0010]

The dynamic image data to be attached to the manual is easily created by relating the noun data instance and the verb data instance based on the animation data dictionary. Therefore, a manual including images and sounds can be easily created based on the animation dictionary.

Further, since manuals related to the same field can be created based on the same animation data dictionary, the cost is greatly reduced. Since each paragraph data has a time-series link with each other, not only time-series manual reference but also a manual of a desired portion can be easily referred to.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, an animation data dictionary is created object-oriented. This is roughly divided into two types, noun data and verb data, as shown in FIG. Image data of the appearance (photograph or still image created on a computer) is put in the noun data, and the valence value method (the owner of the verb has an individual verb,
Using the method of understanding the sentence centering on the verb, with the meaning of the target, purpose, etc., set the attribute that specifies the target noun data, and define the action corresponding to the valence as a method. .

If there is a sound that characterizes the operation, that sound data is also defined as an attribute. The noun data is organized like a thesaurus. The verb data is hierarchically defined as a semantic block to some extent, as shown in FIG.

The animation data dictionary is not created for each device or system for which a manual is created.
The data required for general manuals or the data specifying the field shall be stored. Proper nouns (names of devices and systems, etc.) can be freely added by the user (manual creator).

When actually creating a manual, the manual of the target device or system is written in a document. This is of course not automatic. Figure 3 as a block for each paragraph
Create paragraph data as shown in. If the text of one paragraph, eg "Insert floppy into slot",
As shown in FIG. 4, a noun and a verb are extracted from the sentence, instance data is created from the animation data dictionary using those as keys, and noun data is defined in the valence attribute of the verb data to create a moving image.

When a moving image cannot be created with the noun or verb in the paragraph and a moving image is required, video data is created (the operation of the device or system is captured as a moving image).

Next, the paragraph data are linked in a time series as shown in FIG.

When the paragraph data is selected by the user,
A sentence (character data) stored therein is displayed, and when a moving image button on the display screen is pressed, a moving image or video image created is displayed as shown in FIG. Of course, if sound data is defined, that sound data is also output. The paragraph data can be executed in time series, or can be executed from the state that the user wants to refer to from the paragraph at any time.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, the following excellent effects can be obtained. (1) Since the animation data dictionary is provided, a manual including images can be easily created.

(2) According to the manual created by the system of the present invention, it is possible to refer to the manual at the same time as the moving image or sound of the target device or system, so that the state or movement of the target device is deeper. Understandable.

(3) Since the moving image can be created based on the animation data dictionary, it is not necessary to shoot all the moving images to be attached to the manual, and the cost can be reduced.

(4) A manual for a certain field can be created by using the same animation data dictionary, and the cost can be reduced.

(5) Since it is possible to refer to the manual as paragraph data while ignoring the time series, it is possible to very easily refer to the manual including the moving image of a desired portion when necessary.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention, (a) is a block diagram showing noun data, and (b) is a block diagram showing verb data.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a hierarchy of verb data, showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing paragraph data according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a procedure for creating moving image data according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a state of paragraph links according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a display example of paragraph data according to the embodiment of the present invention.

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A data structure in which the nouns and verbs of a manual sentence are constructed in a thesaurus in an object-oriented manner, the noun data defines image data that characterizes or characterizes the noun data, and the verb data incorporates a valence method. , An instance of noun data is defined for those attributes, and an animation data dictionary with the function of defining the valence information as a method and defining it as one of the attributes if there is a sound was provided. A multimedia manual creation support system featuring. 2. A sentence of a manual is divided into paragraphs, a noun and a verb are extracted from the sentence of each paragraph, and data is taken out from the animation data dictionary by using that as a key to correlate the noun data instance with the verb data instance. 2. The multimedia manual creation support system according to claim 1, wherein moving image data is created to form paragraph data, and the paragraph data are linked in time series with each other to relate them to each other. . 3. The noun data and the verb data corresponding to the animation data dictionary do not exist, and when the moving image cannot be created or when it is desired to video-record the moving image specially, the video data is created and the paragraph data is created. The multimedia manual creation support system according to claim 2, wherein the multimedia manual creation support system is registered in.