JPH096570A - Scenario information processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] To provide a scenario information processing device that allows a user to easily understand the movement of an object and perform simple and comfortable scenario information processing. [Structure] A plurality of tops 103a to 103e are displayed at different positions on a display screen, and in each of the tops, the positional relationship between the front and back of the displayed object is displayed using arrows. The user can easily understand the positional relationship of objects in each frame and the moving direction and moving speed before and after the positional relationship.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a scenario information processing apparatus, and more particularly to a scenario information processing apparatus for processing scenario information in a text creating apparatus used in a word processor, personal computer, workstation or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A presentation system, a word processor, a personal computer, or the like is used as a device for displaying an object such as a text, a figure, an image, or a moving image on a display by changing a display state or a display position over time based on scenario information. , Workstations, etc. are known. As an apparatus for processing scenario information for an object, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
As disclosed in US Pat. No. 280164, a directed line segment indicating an hourly position of the object and a moving direction between the hourly positions of the object is displayed on the display screen,
There is known a device in which a user inputs scenario information by setting a position of an object at each time. In this device, the display screen 1 as shown in FIG.
Position information 152a to 152g and position information 152a to which the user is displayed within 50 by time
The scenario information is input by inputting the directed line segments 154a to 154f connecting between 152g. When the scenario information is executed, the displayed object moves along the input directed segment with the passage of time.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, since the movement of the object is displayed from the start to the end on one screen, the movement of the object is complicated or the same screen is displayed. There is a problem that the screen becomes difficult to see when displaying a plurality of objects. Further, in the conventional technique, when an object exists at the same position for a certain period of time, it is difficult to understand the movement over time.

Further, when the scenario information of a plurality of objects is processed using the conventional technique as shown in FIG. 13, the screen becomes complicated and the positional relationship between the objects at a certain time is difficult to understand. There was a problem.

In order to solve such a problem, the inventor has invented a scenario information processing apparatus shown below. That is, as shown in FIG. 14, it is a device for simultaneously displaying the screens displayed based on the scenario information like movie films as respective frames.

However, the scenario information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 14 also has a problem that it is difficult to understand the moving direction and speed of the object included in each of the displayed frames.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and provides a scenario information processing apparatus in which a user can easily understand the movement of an object and can perform simple and comfortable processing. With the goal.

[0008]

A scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 1 simultaneously displays a frame at a first time and a frame at a second time different from the first time at different positions. In the frame display means and in the displayed frame at the first time, information indicating the positional relationship between the object contained in the frame at the first time and the object contained in the frame at the second time is displayed. And a positional relationship information display means.

According to another aspect of the scenario information processing apparatus, the time t1, the time t2 (t2> t1), and the time t.
3 (t3> t2), frame display means for simultaneously displaying frames at different positions, and information indicating the positional relationship between the objects contained in the frame at time t1 and the objects contained in the frame at time t2, And a positional relationship information display unit for displaying information indicating the positional relationship between the objects included in the frame at time t2 and the objects included in the frame at time t3 in the frame at the displayed time t2. .

A scenario information processing device according to a third aspect is the scenario information processing device according to the first or second aspect, further comprising a changing means for changing the position of the object in the frame.

The scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 4 is the scenario information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the object includes a plurality of types of objects.

A scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 5 is the scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 4,
A selection means for selecting a desired type of object from a plurality of types of objects is further provided, the frame display means displays only the selected type of object, and the positional relationship information display means positions the position of the selected type of object. Only the information showing the relationship is displayed.

A scenario information processing apparatus according to a sixth aspect is the scenario information processing apparatus according to the fourth or fifth aspect, wherein the frame display means sets each of a plurality of types of objects included in the frame as an object. It is displayed with a different symbol for each type.

A scenario information processing device according to claim 7 is the scenario information processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the frame display means is a rectangle surrounding the object contained in the frame. It is something to display.

[0015]

In the scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 1, the frame at the first time and the frame at the second time different from the first time are simultaneously displayed at different positions, and the displayed first frame is displayed. Information indicating the positional relationship between the object included in the frame at the first time and the object included in the frame at the second time is displayed in the frame at the time.

In the scenario information processing apparatus according to the second aspect, the time t1, the time t2 (t2> t1), and the time t3.
The frames at the respective times of (t3> t2) are simultaneously displayed at different positions, and information indicating the positional relationship between the objects included in the frames at the time t1 and the objects included in the frames at the time t2, and the time t2.
Objects included in the frame at time t3
The information indicating the positional relationship of the objects included in the frame is displayed in the frame at the displayed time t2.

The scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 3 changes the position of the object in the frame in addition to the operation of the scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2.

A scenario information processing device according to a fourth aspect includes a plurality of types of objects in a frame in addition to the operation of the scenario information processing device according to any one of the first to third aspects.

The scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 5 has the function of the scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 4, and in addition to the operation of the scenario information processing apparatus, a desired type of object is selected from a plurality of types of objects and selected. Only the objects of the type are displayed, and only the information indicating the positional relationship of the objects of the selected type is displayed.

A scenario information processing apparatus according to a sixth aspect of the present invention has, in addition to the operation of the scenario information processing apparatus according to the fourth or fifth aspect, a plurality of types of objects included in a frame that are different for each type of object. Display as a symbol.

The scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 7 displays an object included in a frame in a rectangle surrounding the object, in addition to the operation of the scenario information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5. .

[0022]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a scenario editing processing screen of a scenario information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to the drawing, a plurality of consecutive frames 103a to 103 are displayed on the scenario editing processing screen in this embodiment.
e is displayed at the same time. Time columns 101a to 101e for displaying the time when each frame is displayed in association with each frame
Is displayed. A symbol indicating the position of the object displayed in each frame is displayed on each frame. On this screen, it is shown that two types of objects indicated by a black circle (hereinafter referred to as “circle”) and a black square (hereinafter referred to as “square”) are being edited. A directional line segment (arrow), which is information indicating the positional relationship between the object and the frame before and after the symbol, is displayed on the symbol indicating the position of the object. For example, an arrow having a circle as a start end and an arrow having a circle as an end are displayed on the frame 103b at time T + 1. This indicates that at time T + 1, the object corresponding to the circle is displayed at the position of the circle, and the object corresponding to the circle moves from time T, which is one time before time T + 1, toward time T + 1. It is shown to move through a locus indicated by an arrow terminating in a circle. That is, this arrow corresponds to the movement vector of the object corresponding to the circle, and the user can easily understand the movement direction and movement speed of the object by looking at this arrow.

Similarly, the arrow starting from the circle in the frame 103b indicates that the user is in the frame 103b at time T + 1.
It is possible to understand the moving direction and moving speed of the object corresponding to the circle from the time to the frame 103c at time T + 2.

Similarly, for an object corresponding to a square, an arrow having a square as a start end and an arrow having a square as an end are displayed. Here, the frame 103 at time T + 1
An arrow terminating the square is not displayed in the square displayed on the frame 103d at time b and time T + 3, but this means that the object corresponding to the square is one before the frames 103b and 103d at each time. Top 103
a, 103c is not moved, or is displayed for the first time in the frame. In FIG. 1, since the square is not displayed on the frame 103a at the time T, which is the frame immediately before the frame 103b at the time T + 1, an arrow terminating the square is displayed on the square of the frame 103b at the time T + 1. There is no. On the other hand, since the object indicated by a square has not moved from the frame 103c at time T + 2 to the frame 103d at time T + 3, the square ending with the square is not displayed in the square at the frame 130d at time T + 3.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the symbol indicating the position of the object at each time and the arrow indicating the moving direction and the speed are displayed on the display screen. It is possible to easily grasp the positional relationship of. If all the frames to be edited cannot be displayed on the display screen, some continuous frames are displayed on the display screen, and only the desired frames are displayed by scrolling by the user's input. You may do it.

The scenario information processing apparatus in this embodiment is realized by the apparatus configuration described below.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing the configuration of the scenario information processing apparatus in one embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to the figure, the scenario information processing apparatus includes a pointing device 203 composed of a pen or a mouse for pointing a desired place on a display screen, a central processing unit 201 for performing various kinds of processing, and scenario information. A display device 205 that displays an edit screen and the like, a display of the operation panel (screen shown in FIG. 1) included in the scenario information processing screen, and an actual operation on the operation panel and an object corresponding to the actual operation. It is composed of a scenario control unit 207 that performs processing such as movement, a time-based data storage unit 209 that stores (stores) object names and their position information at each time, a character code, graphic coordinate data, image data, and the like. A code information buffer 211 for storing the actual display data of the object to be displayed,
An object operation control unit 213 that performs processing such as changing the position of an object, an object operation buffer 215 that stores data necessary for object operation and an editing result, and a display such as an object display and a frame display. Display control unit 2 that performs overall processing
17 and.

FIG. 3 shows the scenario control unit 207 in FIG.
3 is a block diagram showing a specific configuration of FIG.

Referring to the figure, the scenario control unit 207 processes event information which is information of an input signal from the pointing device 203 (for example, a signal indicating that a mouse button has been pressed or released). An event processing unit 301 for inputting, and an area management unit 303 for inputting position information where an event has occurred from the event processing unit and outputting a processing signal to the management unit of each processing area based on the position information. Object list management unit 305 in which the selected objects are registered, and time column management unit 3 that manages the time selection area used when selecting the time.
07, a time data storage unit 309 that stores the selected time, a frame column management unit 315 that manages the area of the currently displayed frame, and a frame number of the currently operated frame. A frame number storage unit 317 and a display magnification storage unit 32 that stores the currently designated display magnification.
1 and 1.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a concrete structure of the object operation control unit 213 in FIG.

Referring to the figure, the object operation control section 21
3 is an event processing unit 401 that processes event information
Then, the position information in which the event has occurred is input from the event processing unit 401, it is determined based on the position information whether or not to continue the object operation in the selected frame, and if the object operation is not to be continued, then The area management unit 403 that performs the processing to be performed on the object and the object existing at the position are operated based on the input position information data, and if the corresponding object exists, the object is selected for the object. Object selection processing unit 40 that performs processing related to object selection, such as lighting a selection mark indicating that
5 and an edit processing unit 407 for performing moving edit processing on the selected object.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing a frame display process performed by the scenario information processing apparatus in this embodiment.

Referring to the drawing, display magnification data is acquired in step S501. Although the value stored in the display magnification storage unit 321 is used as the display magnification data, the user may arbitrarily input the value. The frame is displayed in a size corresponding to the display magnification. The number of display frames that can be displayed on the screen is determined from the display magnification data obtained in step S502. In general, the number of displayed frames is large when the size of the frame is small, and the number of displayed frames is small when the size of the displayed frame is large. In step S503, a frame display field that is a frame surrounding the frame is drawn. If the frame display field has already been drawn on the display screen and the display magnification has not changed from the previous frame display field in step S501, step S501
The processing of 503 is not performed. In step S504, the time data storage unit 309 and the code information buffer 2
The position information and the code information of each of the objects in the corresponding code are read from 11. Step S505
At, an object is drawn on the corresponding frame in the frame display field. At this time, the actual shape of the object may be drawn based on the data of the actual object stored in the code information buffer 211, as shown in FIG. Alternatively, it may be displayed with a symbol such as a circle or a square depending on the type of object. Further, as shown in FIG. 11, it is also possible to display the object as a rectangle surrounding the object without displaying the image as it is actually displayed, by the user's selection. For each of the frames displayed in step S506, the position information of the object at the time before and after the corresponding frame is read from the time-dependent data storage unit before and after the frame, and the position information of the object in the corresponding frame is read. A directed line segment, which is the movement information of the lever, is drawn. Directed line segments are not drawn for objects whose positions do not change between the front and back frames.

In step S507, it is determined that the drawing of the object and the drawing of the movement information (the directed line segment) have been performed for all the displayed frames, and if NO, the processing from step S504 is repeated. If YES in step S507, this routine ends.

The first frame number of the frame displayed in the processing in FIG. 5 and the number of frames displayed on the display screen are stored by the frame display column management unit 315.

Further, in the scenario information processing apparatus in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 9, the user can arbitrarily change the position data of the object in each frame. In the example shown in FIG. 9, the position data of the object indicated by the square at time T + 3 is changed by the user, and accordingly, the data of the arrow indicating the frame and the movement information of the object indicated by the square included before and after the frame at time T + 3. It has been changed automatically.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing the processing relating to the movement operation of the object in the frame illustrated in FIG.

Referring to the drawing, in step S601,
When the pointing device 203 detects that pen down (for example, a mouse button is clicked) is performed, the area manager 303 searches each area manager based on the pen-down position data in step S602. As a result, it is determined whether or not pen down has been performed in the frame display field. At the same time, the position of the area is specified. In step S603, the pen-down frame is specified based on the data of the position where the pen-down has been performed, the top frame number displayed on the current screen stored in the frame display column management unit 315, and the number of displayed frames. It Step S60
4 in the object operation buffer 215 used for object operation (editing).
The data of the corresponding frame No. 09 is transferred. The central processing unit 201 operates the data in the object operation buffer 215 based on the pen-down position data to identify whether or not there is an object at the pen-down position. If it is determined in step S605 that there is data corresponding to the object at the pen-down position, processing such as lighting a mark on the corresponding object is performed. By the processing in steps S601 to S605 described above, the object in the frame is specified, and an operation such as moving the object is enabled.

By displaying only the marked objects in this state on the display screen, as shown in FIG. 8, only the selected specific objects and the movement information of the selected specific objects are displayed. It is possible to

FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing the processing relating to the operation of moving an object within a frame, which is performed by the scenario information processing apparatus in this embodiment.

In this process, when an object is selected, pen down is performed within the frame, and then pen up (when the mouse button is released) is performed within the same frame. This is a process of moving the object to the designated position.

Referring to the drawing, if it is determined in step S701 that an event has occurred and the pen-down event has occurred in step S701, the position where the pen-down event has occurred in step S702 is the frame area. Is determined. If NO in step S702, it is determined that the event is a place unrelated to the movement of the object, and the movement is treated as cancellation. Specifically, step S
If NO in 702, the process is performed from step S701, and an object is selected, and a state of waiting for an event is set. YE in step S702
If S, in step S703, it is determined whether or not the area where the event has occurred is the frame currently being worked on.
If NO in step S703, step S70
The process from 1 is repeated.

If YES in step S703, the moving process of the object is treated as moving process within the same frame, and the position after the movement of the object is identified by the position where the pen-up is performed by the user in step S704. . In step S705, the position information of the corresponding object in the object operation buffer 215 is changed. In step S706, the object corresponding to the position of the new object is displayed in the corresponding frame, and at the same time, the length and direction information of the arrow indicating the locus is changed. In step S707, the lengths and directions of the arrows indicating the trajectories within the frame and the frames before and after the frame are changed and displayed.

In this embodiment, the directional line segment is displayed as the information indicating the relative positional relationship between the object and the front and rear frames, but the user can understand the positional relationship between the front and rear frames. For example, a simple line segment may be used.

[0047]

According to the invention described in claim 1, the frame at the first time and the frame at the second time different from the first time are simultaneously displayed at different positions, and the displayed first frame is displayed. Since the information indicating the positional relationship between the objects included in the frame at the first time and the objects included in the frame at the second time is displayed in the frame at the time, the user is informed of the objects included in the frame. It is easy to understand the movement, and it is possible to perform simple and comfortable scenario information processing.

According to the invention described in claim 2, three different time frames are simultaneously displayed at different positions, and the positional relationship between the frames before and after the object contained in the frame at the middle time is displayed. Therefore, the user can easily understand the movement of the object included in one frame before and after the time, and can perform simple and comfortable scenario information processing.

According to the invention of claim 3, claim 1
Alternatively, in addition to the effect of the invention described in item 2, since the position of the object can be changed, the efficiency of processing the scenario information is improved.

According to the invention of claim 4, claim 1
In addition to the effect of the invention described in any one of items 1 to 3, it is possible to process a plurality of types of objects, and thus work efficiency is improved.

According to the invention of claim 5, claim 4
In addition to the effect of the invention described in (1), since the information of only the object selected from the plurality of types of objects is displayed, the movement of one object can be more easily understood.

According to the invention of claim 6, claim 4
Alternatively, in addition to the effect of the invention described in 5, each of the plurality of types of objects included in the frame is displayed with a different symbol depending on the type of the object, so that the display of the frame can be performed easily.

According to the invention described in claim 7, in addition to the effect of the invention described in any one of claims 1 to 5, since the object contained in the frame is displayed in a rectangle surrounding the object, the position of the object for the user It becomes easier to understand the relationship.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a scenario information processing screen in a scenario information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing a device configuration of a scenario information processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a specific configuration of a scenario control unit 207 in FIG.

4 is a block diagram showing a specific configuration of an object operation control unit 213 in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a frame display process performed in the scenario information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a process for identifying one object.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a process of moving one object within a frame.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining a process of displaying only a desired object when a plurality of objects are included in a frame.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a process of changing the position information of one object included in a frame.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a state in which an object included in a frame is displayed as an actual image.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a process of displaying an object included in a frame in a rectangle surrounding the object.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a scenario information editing screen in a conventional scenario information processing apparatus.

FIG. 13 is a first diagram illustrating a problem in a conventional scenario information processing device.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a comparative example with respect to a conventional scenario information processing device.

[Explanation of reference numerals] 101 time column 103 frame display column 201 central processing unit 203 pointing device 205 display unit 207 scenario control unit 209 time data storage unit 211 code information buffer 213 object operation control unit 215 object operation buffer 217 display control unit 301 Event processing unit 303 Area management unit 305 Object list management unit 307 Time column management unit 309 Time data storage unit 315 Frame column management unit 317 Frame number storage unit 321 Display magnification storage unit 401 Event processing unit 403 Area management unit 405 Object selection processing unit 407 Edit processing unit

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A frame display means for simultaneously displaying a frame at a first time and a frame at a second time different from the first time at different positions, and a frame at the displayed first time. In the first
The scenario information processing device, comprising: positional relationship information display means for displaying information indicating a positional relationship between an object included in the frame at the time of time and an object included in the frame at the second time. 2. A frame display means for simultaneously displaying frames at respective times of time t1, time t2 (t2> t1), and time t3 (t3> t2) at different positions, and included in the frame at the time t1. Information indicating the positional relationship between the objects included in the frame at the time t2 and the objects included in the frame at the time t2 and the time t3.
And a positional relationship information display means for displaying information indicating the positional relationship of objects included in the frame in the frame at the displayed time t2. 3. The scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a changing unit that changes a position of an object in the frame. 4. The scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the object includes a plurality of types of objects. 5. A selection means for selecting an object of a desired type from the plurality of types of objects, the frame display means displaying only the selected type of object, and the positional relationship information display means. The scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein displays only information indicating a positional relationship of the selected type of object. 6. The scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the frame display means displays each of a plurality of types of objects included in the frame with a different symbol for each type of object. 7. The scenario information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the frame display means displays an object included in the frame in a rectangle surrounding the object.