JP5493498B2 - Information processing apparatus and summarization program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and a summary program.

  Regarding image information associated with text information, there is known an information processing apparatus that arranges image information associated with similar text information close to each other and displays them together with typical words associated therewith.

  For example, the information processing apparatus disclosed in Patent Literature 1 extracts a word feature extraction function from a word frequency extraction function for extracting word frequency information constituting text information and a text feature amount from the word frequency information for image information associated with the text information. A text feature amount extraction function, a classification arrangement function for classifying and arranging image information in a virtual space based on the text extraction amount, and extracting a label indicating a representative word from text information associated with the classified image information, Realizes a label placement function that places it in the vicinity of the classified image information and a display function that displays the classified image information and labels according to the viewpoint position in the virtual space. By browsing the image information arranged near the desired label, the desired image information is presented.

JP 2003-167914 A

  An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus and a summarizing program capable of presenting a difference in contents of information in a display in which similar information is arranged according to a distance.

[1] Display means for displaying a plurality of unit information in the display area in accordance with a user operation;
Position detecting means for detecting a display position of the plurality of unit information;
When the display position of the plurality of unit information is changed, the unit information of a part of the plurality of unit information is treated as a group based on the relationship between the display positions of the plurality of unit information, and each of the unit information of the group Group generation means for assigning a character element similar or common to the character elements extracted from
Summarizing means for generating summary information by excluding the character elements related to the group name given to the group to which the unit information belongs from the character elements extracted from the unit information including character elements ;
The display means, information processing device for displaying said summary information in place of the plurality of unit information.

[ 2 ] The information processing apparatus according to [1], wherein the display unit displays the group name associated with the summary information.

[3] the display means, when the display size of the summary information is smaller than the display size of the information unit is a generator of the summary information, said displaying an enlarged display size of the summary information [1] or The information processing apparatus according to [2] .

[4] computer,
Display means for displaying a plurality of unit information in a display area in accordance with a user operation;
Position detecting means for detecting a display position of the plurality of unit information;
When the display position of the plurality of unit information is changed, the unit information of a part of the plurality of unit information is treated as a group based on the relationship between the display positions of the plurality of unit information, and each of the unit information of the group Group generation means for assigning a character element similar or common to the character elements extracted from
It functions as summarizing means for generating summary information by excluding character elements related to a group name given to a group to which the unit information belongs from the character elements extracted from unit information including character elements. ,
The display unit displays the summary information instead of the plurality of unit information .

According to the invention which concerns on Claim 1 or 4 , in the display which arrange | positions similar information according to distance, the difference of the content of each information can be shown.

According to the invention which concerns on Claim 2 , the similar content of similar information can be displayed.

According to the invention which concerns on Claim 3 , the difference of the content by summary can be shown.

It is the schematic which shows the structural example of the information processing apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. (A)-(e) is the schematic which shows the structural example of the information which the information processing apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention memorize | stores. (A)-(c) is the schematic which shows the example of a display of the information processing apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the operation example of the information processing apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is the schematic which shows the structure of the object information which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. (A)-(c) is the schematic which shows the example of a display of the information processing apparatus which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the operation example of the information processing apparatus which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

[First Embodiment]
(Configuration of information processing device)
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration example of an information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  The information processing apparatus 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and the like, and controls each unit and executes various programs. The information processing apparatus 1 includes a storage device such as an HDD (Hard Disc Drive) and a flash memory. An operation signal including a storage unit 11 for storing, a display unit 12 configured to display an image, characters, and the like configured from an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) and the like, a touch panel provided on a display screen of the mouse, keyboard, and display unit 12 And an operation unit 13 for generating.

  The control unit 10 includes a word extraction unit 10A, a position detection unit 10B, a group generation unit 10C, a summary unit 10D, and a display unit 10E by executing a summary program 11A described later.

  The word extraction unit 10A extracts words included in unit information 11B described later by performing morphological analysis on, for example, a subject, a predicate, an object, and the like. The position detection unit 10B detects, for example, a position where the unit information 11B displayed in a card shape is arranged on the virtual plane. The group generation means 10C generates a group name by treating the unit information 11B as a group according to the position where the unit information 11B is arranged and the word included in the unit information 11B. The summarizing means 10D summarizes the unit information 11B based on the group name of the group to which the unit information 11B belongs, and generates summary information 11E described later. The display unit 10E displays the unit information 11B or the summary information 11E on the display unit 12.

  The storage unit 11 includes a summary program 11A that causes the control unit 10 to operate as the above-described units, unit information 11B that is text information including, for example, a single word or a plurality of words, a position, a group, an object, and the like of the unit information 11B. Associated information 11C, extracted word information 11D that is word information extracted from the unit information 11B, and summary information 11E obtained by summarizing the unit information 11B.

  The accompanying information 11C includes position information 110 indicating a position where the unit information 11B is displayed on the display unit 12, and group information 111 indicating a group to which the unit information 11B belongs and a group name. The object information 112 will be described in detail in the second embodiment.

  FIGS. 2A to 2E are schematic diagrams illustrating a configuration example of information stored in the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 2A, the unit information 11B has a unit information ID uniquely determined for each of the plurality of unit information and a content that is information of each text.

  As shown in FIG. 2B, the position information 110 includes a unit information ID and a position indicating a position where each unit information is arranged.

  As shown in FIG. 2C, the group information 111 includes a group ID uniquely defined for each of a plurality of groups, each group name, and a unit information ID indicating unit information belonging to each group. Have

  As shown in FIG. 2D, the extracted word information 11D has a group ID uniquely determined for each of the plurality of groups and an extracted word as a character element extracted from the unit information 11B.

  As shown in FIG. 2E, the summary information 11E has a unit information ID and a summary content obtained by summarizing the unit information 11B based on the group information 111.

  3A to 3C are schematic diagrams illustrating display examples of the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 3A, the display area 12A is displayed on the display screen of the display unit 12, and displays unit information 20a to 20c in which text as content is displayed on a card-like image in an arrangement shown in the figure. . The position to be arranged is determined by the user's operation, but may be automatically determined according to a predetermined condition.

  In the display area 12A, as shown in FIG. 3B, groups 22a and 22b are created when group names 220a and 220b are determined by the user. Further, as will be described later, determination of the group names 220a and 220b and creation of the groups 22a and 22b may be automatically executed by the group generation unit 10C.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 3C, the display area 12A displays summary information 21a to 21c obtained by summarizing the unit information 20a to 20c based on the group names 220a and 220b.

(Operation)
The operation of the information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  First, a user who uses the information processing apparatus 1 operates the operation unit 13 such as a mouse to display a cursor (not shown) displayed on the display unit 12 on the display area 12A displayed by the display unit 10E. Move. The cursor can select the unit information 20a to 20c, and can change the position of the selected unit information. In addition, the user selects a plurality of unit information with the cursor, defines group names 220a and 220b with a common keyword or the like, and creates groups 22a and 22b.

  The group generation means 10C may determine the group names 220a and 220b and create the groups 22a and 22b. In that case, the word extraction means 10A first extracts words from the unit information 20a to 20c displayed in the display area 12A. Next, the position detection means 10B acquires the position on the display area 12A of the unit information 20a to 20c. Next, the group generation unit 10C creates groups 22a and 22b by using similar words as the group names 220a and 220b for the words included in the unit information having close positions.

  In accordance with the creation of the groups 22a and 22b and the movement of the unit information 20a to 20c, the summarizing means 10D generates the summary information 21a to 21c from the unit information 20a to 20c. Details of the operation will be described below.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  First, when the position detecting unit 10B detects the movement of the unit information 20a to 20c, or when it is detected that a group has been created by the user (S1; Yes), when the movement is detected, the group generating unit 10C Then, a group is generated by the method described above and the group information 111 is updated. If it is detected that the user has created a group, the group information 111 is updated with the created group (S2).

  Next, the summarizing means 10D analyzes the words included in the unit information 20a to 20c (S3), acquires the group name to which the target unit information belongs from the group information 111 (S4), for example, about the unit information 21a Removes the words related to the group name 220a “A” and the group name 220b “O” from the words “A”, “O” and “a” included in the unit information 20a, and “a The summary information 21a is changed to the summary information 21a (S5). Note that the unit information analysis in step S3 may be selectively performed only on newly created unit information or unit information whose contents have been changed.

  For the unit information 21b, the word related to the group name 220b “O” is excluded from the words “B”, “O”, and “b” included in the unit information 20b, and “B is b”. The summary information 21b is changed to the summary information 21b. For the unit information 20c, the word related to the group name 220a “A” is excluded from the words “A”, “B”, and “c” included in the unit information 20c, and “B to c”. The summary information 21c is changed to the summary information 21c.

  After the above operation, the display unit 10E displays the summary information 21a to 21c in the display area 12A.

[Second Embodiment]
In the second embodiment, the unit information treated as text information in the first embodiment is replaced with image information.

  FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of object information according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

  When the unit information is image information, the object information 112 includes a unit information ID uniquely defined for each of the plurality of unit information and a partial image having a characteristic shape included in each of the image information, for example, And an object which is information of a partial image having a shape of a person or an object. The object is extracted by the word extraction means 10A using image pattern recognition using an object dictionary (not shown) in which an image and an object name are associated in advance.

  6A to 6C are schematic diagrams illustrating display examples of the information processing apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 6A, the display area 12A is displayed on the display screen of the display unit 12 and displays unit information 30a to 30c, which are image information, in an arrangement shown in the drawing.

  In the display area 12A, as shown in FIG. 6B, group names 320a and 320b are defined by the user, and groups 32a and 32b are created.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 6C, the display area 12A displays summary information 31a to 31c that summarizes the unit information 30a to 30c according to the group names 320a and 320b.

(Operation)
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the information processing apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

  First, when the position detection unit 10B detects the movement of the unit information 30a to 30c, or when it is detected that a group has been created by the user (S11; Yes), when the movement is detected, the group generation unit 10C The group information 111 is updated by updating the group information 111. If it is detected that the group has been created by the user, the group information 111 is updated with the created group (S12).

  Next, the summarizing means 10D analyzes the objects included in the unit information 30a to 30c (S13), acquires the group name to which the target unit information belongs from the group information 111 (S14), for example, for the unit information 31a Excludes the object related to the group name 320a “desk” from the objects “desk”, “chair” and “person” included in the unit information 30a, and includes summary information including image information corresponding to “chair” and “person”. The summary is changed to 31a (S15).

  As for the unit information 31b, the objects related to the group name 320a “desk” and the group name 320b “lighting” are excluded from the objects “desk”, “lighting”, and “tableware” included in the unit information 30b. The summary information 31b including the image information corresponding to “tableware” is changed and summarized. As for the unit information 30c, the object related to the group name 320a “lighting” is excluded from the objects “person” and “lighting” included in the unit information 30c, and the summary information 31c including image information corresponding to “person” is included. Change and summarize.

  Next, when the display sizes of the summary information 31a to 31c are smaller than the unit information 30a to 30c, the display unit 10E displays the enlarged information (S16).

[Other embodiments]
The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

  For example, the word extraction unit 10A may extract words that are semantically similar, such as “technology” and “technology”, even if they are not exactly the same word. In addition, when the user, date of use, and place of use of the information processing apparatus 1 can be identified, the words “I”, “Everyone”, “Employee” and the like are similar to the user's name, “Today”, Words such as “from now” and “previous” may be extracted as similar to the use date, and words such as “here” and “external” may be extracted as similar to the place of use. Further, for example, as for “active and passive” such as “A is c by B” and “B is c by A”, the subject and the object may be interchanged and extracted as similar ones.

  In the second embodiment, the summarizing unit 10D omits the object similar to the group name from the unit information and uses the image regarding the remaining object as the summary information. However, the summarizing unit 10D relates to the object similar to the group name from the unit information. The summary information may be generated without the image.

  Further, the word extraction means 10A, position detection means 10B, group generation means 10C, summarization means 10D, and display means 10E used in the above embodiment are stored in the apparatus from a storage medium such as a CD-ROM. You may read to a memory | storage part and may download to the memory | storage part in an apparatus from the server apparatus etc. which are connected to networks, such as the internet. Moreover, you may implement | achieve part or all of the means used by the said embodiment by hardware, such as ASIC.

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Claims (4)

Display means for displaying a plurality of unit information in a display area in accordance with a user operation;
Position detecting means for detecting a display position of the plurality of unit information;
When the display position of the plurality of unit information is changed, the unit information of a part of the plurality of unit information is treated as a group based on the relationship between the display positions of the plurality of unit information, and each of the unit information of the group Group generation means for assigning a character element similar or common to the character elements extracted from
Summarizing means for generating summary information by excluding the character elements related to the group name given to the group to which the unit information belongs from the character elements extracted from the unit information including character elements ;
The display means, information processing device for displaying said summary information in place of the plurality of unit information. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the display unit displays the group name associated with the summary information. 3. The display unit according to claim 1, wherein when the display size of the summary information is smaller than the display size of the unit information that is the generation source of the summary information, the display unit displays the summary information in an enlarged size. Information processing device. Computer
Display means for displaying a plurality of unit information in a display area in accordance with a user operation;
Position detecting means for detecting a display position of the plurality of unit information;
When the display position of the plurality of unit information is changed, the unit information of a part of the plurality of unit information is treated as a group based on the relationship between the display positions of the plurality of unit information, and each of the unit information of the group Group generation means for assigning a character element similar or common to the character elements extracted from
It functions as summarizing means for generating summary information by excluding character elements related to a group name given to a group to which the unit information belongs from the character elements extracted from unit information including character elements. ,
The display unit displays the summary information instead of the plurality of unit information .

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