JP2005063011A - Contents displaying method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contents display method and device for receiving contents transmitted from a terminal such as a portable telephone in response to a data request regardless of the display capacity of the data display part of the terminal, and for efficiently displaying the contents at a data display part without losing the contents. <P>SOLUTION: A terminal 10 is provided with a data receiving part 11 to receive data transmitted from a data transmitting part 22 of a server 20, a data analysis part 12 to analyze and split contents received by the data receiving part based on the display capacity of the data display part 14, a data management part 13 to manage the divided contents, a data display part 14 to display the split contents managed by the data management part 13 and an operating part 15 to make a user to operate, select and display the split contents managed by the data management part 13 at the data display part 14. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a content display method and apparatus, and in particular, information or data (hereinafter referred to as content) obtained by accessing the Internet by a terminal having a data display unit having a relatively small display area or a small data display capacity, such as a mobile phone. The present invention relates to a content display method and apparatus that display effectively.

  The Internet is a very effective information source. The provider has a server having various specialized information databases regardless of news such as current affairs, economy and politics. A user searches for information using a browser using information or a communication device such as a personal computer (PC), a mobile phone, or a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant: personal digital assistant), and downloads and uses necessary information or content. It is possible.

  Recent mobile phones have a function of connecting to the Internet and have high performance. Therefore, some mobile phones have an information processing function similar to that of a PC. In other words, the amount of information that can be acquired by a mobile phone is increasing as in the case of a PC.

However, a PC generally has a display device (display) having a relatively large display area, but a mobile phone, a PDA, or the like is miniaturized in consideration of portability. Therefore, the display unit has a relatively limited display area (that is, narrow), and it is difficult to effectively display a large amount of acquired information. Therefore, efforts have been made to display a large amount of information without impairing portability. For example, a plurality of function keys are provided in the vicinity of the display unit, a guidance display explaining the function of each key is displayed in addition to the content acquired from the Internet, and the content is reduced when the user presses any function key. At the same time, a mobile radio terminal device that enlarges and displays a guidance display is disclosed (for example, see Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-36627 (page 3-5, FIG. 1-4)

In addition, in order to display information with a large screen size on a terminal computer with a small screen size without reducing the amount of information, the information conversion device divides the screen into a plurality of screens and selects and displays the divided screen information. And an information conversion method are disclosed (for example, see Patent Document 2).
JP 2001-109655 A (page 4-5, Fig. 1-4)

  However, with these conventional display methods, it is difficult to efficiently and quickly display the amount of information that can be acquired on a narrow display screen. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a content display method and apparatus that allows a user to efficiently display a large amount of content acquired from a server in a narrow display area.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the content display method and apparatus according to the present invention employs the following characteristic configuration.

(1) In a content display method for acquiring content desired by a user from a server using a browser using a terminal having a data display unit, and displaying the acquired content on the data display unit of the terminal.
Comparing and analyzing the data amount of the acquired content and the data amount that can be displayed at one time on the data display unit, the content is divided into a plurality based on the analysis result, and the data display is sequentially performed for each divided content Content display method to be displayed in the department.

  (2) The content display method according to (1), wherein the terminal is a mobile phone or the like having a data display unit with a relatively small amount of display data.

  (3) The divided content is allocated to the data display unit and at least one virtual display unit, and the content allocated to the virtual display unit is sequentially displayed on the data display unit in accordance with a user operation. The content display method according to (1) or (2) above.

  (4) The content display method according to (1), (2), or (3), wherein the divided content is displayed on the data display unit by overlay.

(5) In a content display device of a terminal including a data receiving unit that receives data acquired by requesting data from a server and a data display unit that displays the acquired data.
A data analysis unit that analyzes the data received by the reception unit and divides the data into a plurality of contents, a data management unit that manages data analyzed by the data analysis unit, and the data managed by the data management unit A content display device comprising: an operation unit that controls display on a data display unit.

  (6) The content display device according to (5), wherein the data analysis unit analyzes based on a data amount that can be displayed at a time by the data display unit.

  (7) The content display device according to (5) or (6), wherein the operation unit sequentially displays data managed by the data management unit on the data display unit by scrolling or overlaying.

  (8) The content display device according to (5), (6), or (7), wherein the terminal includes a storage unit that stores data displayed on the data display unit.

  (9) The content display device according to any one of (5) to (8), wherein the terminal is a mobile phone or the like having a relatively small data display capacity of the data display unit.

  According to the content display method and apparatus of the present invention, the following remarkable practical effects can be obtained. It is possible to acquire content including a larger amount of data than the display capacity of the data display unit included in the terminal and display the content on the data display unit. Further, since the data (content) acquired from the server is managed by the data management unit according to the display capacity of the data display unit, the user can quickly select and display it by operating the operation unit. Furthermore, the selection display mode can be selected and displayed sequentially in any mode such as scrolling or overlay.

  DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the configuration and operation of an embodiment of the content display method and apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  First, FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a first embodiment of a content display device according to the present invention. This content display apparatus is configured by a terminal 10 and a server 20, and the terminal 10 and the server 20 are connected by a network (Internet) 30. The terminal 10 includes a data reception unit 11, a data analysis unit 12, a data management unit 13, a data display unit 14 such as a liquid crystal display panel, and an operation unit 15. The server 20 includes a data (or database) 21 and a data transmission unit 22.

  Here, the terminal 10 is a communication device such as a mobile phone and an information processing device. The terminal 10 has a function of acquiring data from the server 20 via the network 30 using a browser. On the other hand, the server 20 has a function of transmitting content stored in the database 21 to the terminal 10 via the data transmission unit 22 in response to a request from the terminal 10.

  The data receiving unit 11 of the terminal 10 receives data transmitted from the data transmitting unit 22 of the server 20. The data analysis unit 12 analyzes the size (size) of the data received by the data reception unit 11. As will be described later, the data analysis unit 12 compares the size of the display screen of the data display unit 14 with the size of the data received from the server 20, and determines how to display the data on the data display unit. The data management unit 13 manages the data analyzed by the data analysis unit 12. The data display unit 14 has a plurality of virtual display screens, and selectively displays data managed by the data management unit 13. The operation unit 15 selects data to be displayed on the data display unit 14 by a user (user) operation.

  Next, the operation of the content display apparatus shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2A to 2C are explanatory diagrams of the content display apparatus of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a sequence diagram of the content display apparatus shown in FIG.

  First, when the content data acquired by the terminal 10 from the server 20 is a large amount exceeding the data display capacity of the data display unit 14, for example, as shown in FIG. Specifically, according to the data display capacity of the data display unit 14 of the terminal 10, each of the virtual display screens is divided into a plurality of virtual display screens a, b, and c that are continuous in the vertical direction. As will be described later, the plurality of screens are moved in the vertical direction by the operation of the operation unit 15 by the user, and are selected and displayed as data a, data b, and data c, for example. As a result, the data divided into a plurality of virtual screens can be quickly displayed sequentially in the scroll mode or the like by the user's selection operation. Further, if necessary, it is possible to return from the subsequent screen to the previous screen, that is, to advance or retract the display screen.

  The content data acquired by the terminal 10 from the server 20 is overlaid as a plurality of virtual screens as shown in FIG. 2B, for example, and only the uppermost display screen is entirely displayed as a data display unit. 14 may be displayed visually. By adopting such a virtual screen and display method, the amount of content to be selected and displayed is obvious to the user.

  Furthermore, the virtual screen is not limited to the above-described FIGS. 2A and 2B, and it is a matter of course that the screens a to c may be set in the horizontal direction as shown in FIG. Also in this case, the same effect as that of FIG.

  Next, a series of operation procedures from content acquisition to display by the user of the terminal 10 will be described with reference to the sequence diagram of FIG. First, the user accesses the server 20 via the Internet 30 using a web browser by the communication function of the terminal 10 which is a mobile phone, for example, and requests data transmission of the desired content from the database 21 (step A1). . In response to this data transmission request, the data transmission unit 22 of the server 20 transmits data to the terminal 10 (step A2). The terminal 10 that has received this data transmission receives the data at the data receiving unit 11.

  Next, the content data received by the data receiving unit 11 of the terminal 10 is sent to the data analyzing unit 12 for data analysis (step A3). That is, the data analysis unit 12 analyzes the data amount of the content acquired from the server 20 based on the data display capacity of the data display unit 14 and determines how to display the data on the data display unit 14. The analysis result of the data analysis unit 12 is sent to the data management unit 13 (step A4).

  Based on the analysis result of the data analysis unit 12, the data management unit 13 described above is used as it is when the data amount of the acquired content is a data amount (unit data amount) that can be displayed on the data display unit 14 at once. indicate. However, when this unit data amount is exceeded, it is divided into a plurality of virtual display screens a, b, c as described above with reference to FIG. Then, according to the operation of the operation unit 15 by the user (step A5), the data of the content displayed on the data display unit 14 from the data management unit 13 is data in units divided as a, b, or c described above. Display (step A6).

  Although similar to the configuration described above with reference to FIG. 1, it is possible to further store a content displayed on the data display unit by providing a storage unit such as a nonvolatile semiconductor memory. As a result, it is possible to save all of the content acquired once and displayed on the data display unit or the selected content portion as desired by the user. When the content stored in the storage unit reaches the maximum capacity of the storage unit, a warning is given to the user. For example, the oldest stored data may be deleted sequentially, and new content may be stored in the storage unit sequentially. .

  The configuration and operation of the preferred embodiment of the content display method and apparatus according to the present invention have been described in detail above. However, it should be noted that such examples are merely illustrative of the invention and do not limit the invention in any way. Those skilled in the art will readily understand that various modifications and changes can be made according to a specific application without departing from the gist of the present invention.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the Example of the content display apparatus by this invention. It is explanatory drawing of the content display method of the content display apparatus shown in FIG. It is a sequence diagram explaining operation | movement of the content display apparatus shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

10 terminal (mobile phone)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Data reception part 12 Data analysis part 13 Data management part 14 Data display part 15 Operation part 20 Server 21 Database 22 Data transmission part 30 Internet

Claims (9)

In a content display method for acquiring content desired by a user from a server using a browser with a terminal having a data display unit, and displaying the acquired content on the data display unit of the terminal,
Comparing and analyzing the data amount of the acquired content and the data amount that can be displayed at one time on the data display unit, the content is divided into a plurality based on the analysis result, and the data display is sequentially performed for each divided content The content display method characterized by displaying on a part.   The content display method according to claim 1, wherein the terminal is a mobile phone having a data display unit with a relatively small display data amount.   The divided content is allocated to the data display unit and at least one virtual display unit, and the content allocated to the virtual display unit is sequentially displayed on the data display unit according to a user operation. The content display method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that:   The content display method according to claim 1, wherein the divided content is displayed on the data display unit by overlay. In a content display device of a terminal including a data receiving unit that receives data acquired by requesting data from a server and a data display unit that displays the acquired data,
A data analysis unit that analyzes the data received by the reception unit and divides the data into a plurality of contents, a data management unit that manages data analyzed by the data analysis unit, and the data managed by the data management unit A content display device comprising: an operation unit that controls display on a data display unit.   The content display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the data analysis unit analyzes based on a data amount that the data display unit can display at a time.   The content display device according to claim 5, wherein the operation unit sequentially displays data managed by the data management unit on the data display unit by scrolling or overlaying.   The content display device according to claim 5, wherein the terminal includes a storage unit that stores data displayed on the data display unit.   9. The content display device according to claim 5, wherein the terminal is a mobile phone or the like having a relatively small data display capacity of the data display unit.

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