JPH0520371A - Information retrieval result display method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To grasp the location relationship of the information by a user and to facilitate the access to the specific information by displaying the location where the retrieved information in a data base is occupied in the entire information while corresponding to the entire information. CONSTITUTION:This system is provided with a means retrieving the picture identifier of the information in the data base corresponding to the information index, a means 2 storing the position display picture corresponding to the entire picture corresponding to the structure of the information and each information, a means 3 synthesizing the entire picture and the position display picture of the picture identifier, and a means 4 displaying the synthesis picture. In this case, the information is retrieved from the information index, and the location is displayed while corresponding to each part of the object picture as well as the information structure, enabling the information display in the multidimensional space in accordance with human recongnition and storage configuration. A user grasp the location of the specific information easily even from a large amount of information, enabling the access.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for displaying the position of retrieved information in an information structure in a system for retrieving information, and particularly for retrieving / selecting a specific item in a large amount of information. In this case, the present invention relates to a method of displaying information search results.

[0002] Here, the position of information means the vertical position between each information
It is the position of specific information in the information structure that expresses a parallel relationship.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a method of displaying information retrieval results, a method of sequentially retrieving information contents by inputting a keyword and sequentially displaying information contents corresponding to the keyword, or a database system using the concept of the book ，
When a keyword is input, there is a method of listing and displaying the item number and the item name of the item related to the keyword.

[0004]

However, in the method of sequentially displaying the information contents and the method of listing the related items, since the information is only displayed linearly and the entire information structure is not displayed, the information between the plurality of information is not displayed. There is a problem that it is difficult to grasp the relationship.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems. An object of the present invention is to search information based on an information index and display the position of the information together with the information structure, thereby facilitating the user's grasp of the positional relationship of the information and access to the specific information. It is to provide a method for displaying information retrieval results.

[0006]

FIG. 1 is a principle block diagram of the present invention and shows a flow chart of a processing procedure. In the information retrieval result display method of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, a means 1 for retrieving an image identifier of information in a database corresponding to an information index, and a panoramic image and an individual image corresponding to an information structure in the database. Means 2 for storing a position display image corresponding to the information, means 3 for synthesizing the panoramic image and the position display image of the searched image identifier, and means 4 for displaying the synthesized image.

As a panoramic image corresponding to the information structure,
For example, a group of images of a plurality of cards are coded and stored. As the position display image corresponding to each piece of information, for example, an image of an individual card having a darker color than the panoramic image is coded and stored in association with the image identifier.

[0008]

[Operation] By retrieving information from the information index and displaying the position of the information in association with each part of the concrete object image together with the information structure, the multidimensional space corresponding to the form of human recognition and memory can be obtained. Information can be displayed.

As a result, the user can easily grasp and access the position of specific information among a large amount of information.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings. In all the drawings for explaining the embodiments, the same reference numerals are given to the same elements, and the repeated description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the main part of the information search / display unit of the system according to the embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, 10 is an information index, 11 is an information retrieval unit, 12 is an information storage unit (database), 13 is an image identifier, 14 is a position display image code storage unit, 15 is an image composition unit, and 16 is a panoramic image code storage unit. Reference numeral 17 is a display control unit, and reference numeral 18 is an image display unit.

The information retrieval unit 11 has an information index 10
Is received, the information corresponding to the information index is retrieved from the information storage unit 12, and the image identifier 13 of the information is transmitted to the position display image code storage unit 14. The position display image code storage unit 14 transmits the position display image code corresponding to the image identifier 13 to the image composition unit 15. Image synthesizer 1
5 synthesizes the position display image code with the panoramic image code stored in the panoramic image code accumulating unit 16 and transmits the position display image code to the display control unit 17. The display control unit 17 temporarily stores the received composite image code and uses the image display unit 18 as an image signal.
Send to and display.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a correspondence table of information indexes and image identifiers used in this embodiment in the database of information stored in the information storage section 12. FIG. 4 is an example of an image when converted into an image based on the position display image code stored in the position display image code storage unit 14 and displayed with the size and coordinate position represented by the code.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the position display image code stored in the position display image code accumulating section 14. For example, in the code corresponding to the image identifier a (30,135)
Is the coordinate value of the upper left point of the rectangle, (330, 285) is the coordinate value of the lower right point, rectangle is the type of figure, and (12) is the color.

FIG. 6 shows an example of an image when converted into an image based on the panoramic image code stored in the panoramic image code accumulating unit 16 and the rectangles corresponding to the respective codes are collectively displayed.

FIG. 7 is an example of a composite image displayed on the image display unit 18, and it may be considered that the image of FIG. 4 and the image of FIG. 6 are composited. Next, an operation example of the embodiment will be described. This operation example is performed under the following settings. (1) As the information index 10, one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, ... Is input from the keyboard. Here, it is assumed that "5" is input. (2) The information search unit 11 searches the information stored in the information storage unit 12 for information corresponding to the information index and extracts the image identifier thereof. (3) It is assumed that the information storage unit 12 stores the information content and the image identifier for each information index. If the information index and the image identifier have a correspondence relationship as shown in FIG. 3, the image identifier “e” is obtained. (4) As the image identifier 13, alphabets such as a, b, c ... Are used. (5) In the position display image code storage unit 14, for example, a coded image of the position, figure type, and color of the image of the card,
It is assumed that the data is stored in the format as shown in FIG. (6) In the image synthesizing unit 15, the panoramic image code accumulating unit 16
The position display image code transmitted from the position display image code storage unit 14 is collated with the panorama image code transmitted from the position display image code. Replace codes with priority. (7) It is assumed that the panoramic image code accumulating unit 16 stores the coded positions, graphic types, and colors of images of a plurality of cards as shown in FIG. (8) The display control unit 17 converts the transmitted composite image code into an image signal for displaying on the display, and transmits the image signal to the image display unit 18. (9) The image display unit 18 displays a composite image as shown in FIG. 7 on the display.

An operation example of the embodiment will be described below. The information search unit 11 receives “5” as the information index 10 and searches the information storage unit 12 for information corresponding to the information index. As a result, “e” is obtained as the image identifier 13 of the information and is transmitted to the position display image code storage unit 14. The position display image code accumulating unit 14 stores the position display image code “150” corresponding to the image identifier 13 “e” in FIG.
75 450 225 rectangle 12 ”to the image composition unit 15. The image synthesizing unit 15 is a panoramic image code storage unit 1.
The position display image code "150 75 450 225recta" is added to the panoramic image code that encodes the image of FIG.
ngle 12 ”is synthesized. As a result, the image code obtained by coding the image in which the image in FIG. 4 is overwritten on the image in FIG. 6 is obtained and transmitted to the display control unit 17. Display control unit 17
Temporarily stores the received composite image code, converts it into an image signal to be displayed on the display, and transmits it to the image display unit 18. The image display unit 18 displays an image as shown in FIG. 7 on the display according to the received image signal.

In the present embodiment, as an example of the information structure, the storage position of the card type database, that is, the one having no hierarchy such as a tree structure has been described, but one having a hierarchy or other special information structure. The same effect can be obtained by demonstrating the positioning with respect to the panoramic image corresponding to the structure. That is, for example, it is possible to display the horse image after clearly indicating the position of, for example, “horse” on the entire image in which the whole organism is represented by a tree structure.

In the above description of the embodiment, numbers such as 1, 2, 3 ... Are input from the keyboard as the information index 10, but other symbols may be used. The information index may be input from another input device or may be transmitted using a communication line.

The information retrieval unit 11 retrieves the information corresponding to the information index from the information stored in the information storage unit 12 and extracts the image identifier, but the keyword is used as the information index to store the information. Part 1
You may search the information by directly accessing the information content in 2.

In the information storage unit 12, the information content and the image identifier are stored for each information index, but this storage format is arbitrary. Although the information index and the image identifier have a correspondence relationship as shown in FIG. 3, this correspondence relationship does not have to be a one-to-one correspondence.

Although the alphabets such as a, b, c ... Are used as the image identifier 13, other symbols, numerical values, or absolute coordinate values on the screen may be used as they are.

In the position display image code accumulating section 14, as shown in FIG.
The position of the image on the dark card as shown in
Although the coded colors are stored in the format shown in FIG. 5, the image to be coded is arbitrary, and in addition to changing the color in FIG. Good. The encoding method is also arbitrary, and the information corresponding to each pixel may be converted into a numerical value or another command expression may be used.

In the image synthesizing unit 15, the panoramic image code transmitted from the panoramic image code accumulating unit 16 is collated with the position display image code transmitted from the position displaying image code accumulating unit 14, and The image code at the same position as the position display image code is preferentially replaced with the position display image code. However, the code composition rule is arbitrary, and which of the code values may be prioritized. ..

The panoramic image code storage unit 16 stores the coded position, figure type, and color of a group of images of a plurality of cards as shown in FIG. An image to be associated is arbitrary, and a layout diagram or a three-dimensional image may be used.

The display control unit 17 converts the transmitted composite image code into an image signal for displaying on the display and transmits the image signal to the image display unit 18.
The method of conversion into an image signal is arbitrary, and other signals such as audio signals may be transmitted together.

The image display unit 18 displays a composite image as shown in FIG. 7 on the display. This depends on the panoramic image, the position display image, the composition rule thereof, and the conversion method to the image signal. To do.

Although the present invention has been specifically described based on the embodiments, it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. ..

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention, information is retrieved from the information index, and the position of the information is displayed together with the information structure in association with each part of the concrete object image, so that It is possible to display information in a multidimensional space according to the form of recognition and memory. As a result, the user can easily grasp and access the position of the specific information among a large amount of information.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a processing procedure showing a principle configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of an information search / display unit of the system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an example of a correspondence table of information indexes and image identifiers used in this embodiment in a database of information stored in an information storage unit.

FIG. 4 is an example of an image when the position display image code stored in the position display image code storage unit is converted into an image.

FIG. 5 is an example of a position display image code stored in a position display image code storage unit.

FIG. 6 is an example of an image when the panoramic image code stored in the panoramic image code storage unit is converted into an image.

FIG. 7 is an example of an image displayed on the image display unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 information index 11 information retrieval unit 12 information storage unit 13 image identifier 14 position display image code storage unit 15 image composition unit 16 panoramic image code storage unit 17 display control unit 18 image display unit

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. In an information retrieval system, a means for retrieving an image identifier of information in a database corresponding to an information index, and a panoramic image and individual information corresponding to an information structure in the database. Information retrieval comprising means for storing a corresponding position display image, means for synthesizing the panoramic image and the position display image corresponding to the retrieved image identifier, and means for displaying the synthesized image Result display method.