JP2008107904A - Text and animation service device and computer program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a text/animation service apparatus capable of producing an animation suitable for content relating to a text input, and capable of transmitting to the other device with a text. <P>SOLUTION: An animation blog system 30 includes a blog system 62 for receiving the text input, an animation producing system 66 for producing the animation relating to the content of the text input, a blog DB 60 and an animation DB 64 for each storing produced animation by correlating to the text, a web server 72 for performing data communication, and a transmission processing unit existing in the blog system 62 and for transmitting the text and the animation stored in the animation DB 64 correlated to the text to a communication device which has transmitted a viewing request via the web server 72 in response to reception of any one of viewing requests about texts stored in the blog DB 60 from a network via the web server 72. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for publishing a web page mainly composed of text information on a network or the like, such as a so-called web log (hereinafter referred to as “blog”), and in particular, an animation is used to express the web page. It is related to the technology to improve.

  The blog service is originally a website that records a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) of a web page visited on the World Wide Web and a comment on the page. Such websites need to be updated frequently to keep records, and the content needs to be organized in an easy-to-understand manner. Therefore, various software has been developed to update such pages.

  Because of this, such software has the function of adding records in chronological order and entering text together. Therefore, apart from the original origin, a method of use with a personal diary character was born. What is currently called a “blog” is mostly a chronological accumulation of such personal diaries or memorandums.

  Currently, there are many companies that provide blog services, and many people create and browse blogs.

  By the way, a blog is composed of text-based pages. However, some companies that provide blog services offer various services that go beyond text so that blogs can be used more happily.

  For example, there is a blog service that provides “avatar” animations. “Avatar” is a word originally used in the technology of virtual reality (Virtual Reality), and refers to an image of a character that is a part of a certain individual in virtual reality.

  A blog service allows you to create an avatar animation. In this service, parts consisting of animations of multiple types of avatar's body, face, hair, etc. are prepared in advance, and an avatar animation is created by the user selecting and combining any of them. it can. Users can create an avatar that suits their tastes, such as creating an avatar that is shaped to fit their daily appearance, or creating an avatar that is completely different from their usual appearance. it can.

  The created avatar is displayed with text on the blog. Visitors who visit the page of the blog will read the text of the blog while looking at the animation of the avatar and imagining the creator of the blog.

As a technique for creating a character such as an avatar, there is a technique disclosed in Patent Document 1.
JP-A-2005-243011 Satoshi Kaku and two others, “Parent-child agent information presentation model in animation media conversion system Interactive e-Hon”, Intelligence and Information (Journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Intelligence), Vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 240-250 (2006)

  However, the above-mentioned animation of the avatar is not related to the text displayed on the blog, although it reminds the creator of the blog. Therefore, an avatar animation that does not match the content of the displayed text may be displayed, which makes it difficult for a person browsing the blog to enjoy the content of the text. In addition, the animation of the avatar is very simple, it is a repetition of the animation for about 1 second, and there is a problem that the animation is not so interesting.

  To solve these problems, the blog administrator can create an animation suitable for the text content and display it on the blog. However, the creation of animation requires a great deal of work, and the content of the text is expected to be diverse. Therefore, there is a problem that it is not easy to create an animation suitable for the content of the text.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a text and animation service device that can provide a longer animation with text and make the content of the animation suitable for the content of the text.

  Another object of the present invention is to provide a text and animation service device that can easily create animation suitable for the content of text.

  Still another object of the present invention is to provide a text and animation service device that can provide a longer animation together with text and can easily create an animation suitable for the content of the displayed text. It is.

  The text and animation service device according to the first aspect of the present invention relates to text input means for receiving text input by a user and text input through the text input means and related to the content of the text. An animation generating means for generating an animation; a storage means for storing the animation generated by the animation generating means in association with the text input via the text input means; and a network connected to the network. In response to receiving a request for browsing one of the texts stored in the storage unit from the network via the data communication unit, the data communication unit for performing data communication with another connected communication device, The text and the storage means associated with the text And a transmitting means for transmitting via the data communication means to come communication apparatus transmits the viewing request and animation has been 憶.

  When the text and animation service device receives an input of the text, the text and animation service device generates an animation associated with the content of the text and stores the animation in association with the text in the storage means. In response to receiving the browsing request for the text, the transmitting means transmits the text and the animation associated with the text to the communication device that has transmitted the browsing request.

  When a browsing request is sent from a device on the network to this text and the animation service device, an animation created so as to relate to the content of the text is displayed along with the text. Since not only the text but also the animation related to the contents are displayed with the minimum amount of work by the user, the provision of information mainly on the device that provided the text information becomes more diverse, and the text for the user It becomes easier to understand the contents of the information, and more enjoyable the contents of the text information. As a result, it is possible to provide a text and animation service device that can provide a longer animation together with the text and can make the content of the animation suitable for the content of the text.

  Preferably, the animation generation unit is configured to select a resource storage unit for storing a resource used for generating the animation, and a resource related to the content of the text based on the text input through the text input unit. Means for retrieving from the resource storage means and combining the retrieved resources to generate an animation. The text and animation service device further includes resource adding means for receiving a resource used for generating an animation from a user on the network via the data communication means and adding it to the resource storage means.

  The resource adding unit receives a resource used for generating an animation from a user on the network and adds the resource to the resource storing unit. As a plurality of users add such resources, various resources are accumulated in the text and animation service device. Users can create more diverse animations by effectively using these various resources.

  More preferably, the resource includes background data for drawing the background of the animation, object data that defines the shape of an object that appears during the animation, and operation data indicating the operation of the model, and the resource addition means includes: Means are included for distinguishing and adding background data, object data, and motion data to the resource.

  Background data, object data, and motion data are distinguished and added to resources. These data can be created separately and data can be added easily.

  More preferably, the text input means includes means for receiving an input of an arbitrary number of sentences from another communication device on the network via the data communication means. The animation generation means performs morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, and semantic analysis on the text input through the text input means, and outputs a morpheme sequence with grammatical information, syntactic information, and semantic information. Analysis means and the morpheme sequence output by the analysis means based on the grammatical information, syntactic information and semantic information attached to each morpheme, the background of the animation, the objects appearing in the animation, and the behavior of each object Tagging means for adding a plurality of types of tags related to each to each morpheme and paragraph processing for dividing the morpheme string tagged by the tagging means into a plurality of paragraphs by character codes indicating paragraph breaks And a morpheme to which a tag related to the background is attached by the tagging means for each paragraph divided by the means and the paragraph processing means. Therefore, a tag related to the appearing object is attached by the tagging means for each sentence in the paragraph divided by the background processing means and the paragraph processing means for determining the background data constituting the background of the animation. Based on the morpheme, the object determination means for determining the object data constituting the object appearing in the animation, and the action of the appearing object by the tagging means for each sentence in the paragraph divided by the paragraph processing means For each sentence in the paragraph divided by the paragraph processing means, action determining means for determining action data defining each action of the object appearing in the animation based on the morpheme with the tag related to The object data determined by the object determining means and the action determining means Means for generating an animation by superimposing an animation of an object created by combining the determined motion data with a background generated based on the background data determined by the background determination means; Including.

  Morphological analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis are performed on text including a plurality of sentences, and tags for determining animation resources are added to each morpheme using the results. Using these tags, the background of the animation is determined for each paragraph, and the object appearing for each sentence in the paragraph and its action are determined. An animation for each sentence is created by superimposing a moving object obtained by combining them on a background generated by background data. By repeating these operations for each sentence and each paragraph, an animation for the entire text including a plurality of sentences can be created.

  Alternatively, the text input means may include means for receiving input of the background, subject, object, and predicate of one sentence from another communication device on the network via the data communication means. The animation generation means performs morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, and semantic analysis on the text input through the text input means, and outputs a morpheme sequence with grammatical information, syntactic information, and semantic information. Analysis means and the morpheme sequence output by the analysis means based on the grammatical information, syntactic information and semantic information attached to each morpheme, the background of the animation, the objects appearing in the animation, and the behavior of each object The background data constituting the background of the animation is determined based on the tagging means for adding a plurality of types of tags related to the morpheme to each morpheme and the morpheme tagged with the background by the tagging means. Based on the morpheme with the tag related to the appearing object by the background determination means and the tagging means. The object appearing in the animation based on the morpheme tagged with the object determining means for determining the object data constituting the object appearing in the animation and the tagging means related to the action of the appearing object Of the object created by combining the action determining means for determining the action data defining each action of the object, the object data determined by the object determining means, and the action data determined by the action determining means Means for generating an animation by superimposing the animation on a background generated based on the background data determined by the background determining means.

  The text input means inputs the background, subject, object, and predicate of one sentence. A morpheme analysis, a syntax analysis, and a semantic analysis are performed on a sentence composed of these, and a tag for determining an animation resource is added to each morpheme using the results. Using these tags, the appearing object and its action are determined for the sentence. An animation for an input sentence is created by superimposing a moving object obtained by combining them on a background generated by background data. Therefore, an animation for a text composed of one sentence can be easily created.

  A computer program according to a second aspect of the present invention is executed by a computer including a storage device and a data communication device connected to a network and performing data communication with another communication device connected to the network. Then, the computer uses the text input means for receiving the text input by the user, and the animation generation means for generating an animation related to the content of the text based on the text input through the text input means. Storage means for storing the animation generated by the animation generation means in association with the text input via the text input means, and storing it in the storage device from the network via the data communication means. Receive a request to view any of the text In response to this, it functions as a transmission means for transmitting the text and the animation stored in the storage device in association with the text to the communication device that has transmitted the browsing request via the data communication device. Let

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. In the following drawings and description, the same components are denoted by the same reference numerals. Their names and functions are also the same. Therefore, detailed description thereof will not be repeated.

  The following embodiment relates to a blog, but as is clear from the description of the following embodiment, the web page is not limited to a blog and is a web page that mainly discloses text information. It can also be applied to things.

<First Embodiment>
In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, instead of or in addition to the avatar animation provided in the prior art, an animation that automatically matches the content of the text displayed on the blog is automatically created. If it can be displayed on a blog, the animation display will match the text story. By doing so, it can be expected that blog management becomes more enjoyable for blog creators, and browsing of blogs can be expected to be more interesting for visitors to blogs. The embodiment described below is a blog system with such an animation creation and display function.

  For this purpose, a technique for automatically creating an animation suitable for the content of the text from the text is required. As such a technique, there is a technique disclosed in Non-Patent Document 1. Since the technique disclosed in Non-Patent Document 1 is also used in the embodiments described below, the details thereof will be described later, and an outline thereof will be described here.

  In this embodiment, the blog creator enters the blog text. The system of the embodiment described below performs morphological analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis on the input text in this way, and then, from each sentence in the paragraph, the subject, predicate, object, their modifiers, etc. Extract. By applying rules prepared in advance to these extracted words, tags that serve as clues for selecting objects including characters at the time of animation creation, their movements, and the background are attached. Based on the tags appearing in a paragraph, the background of the paragraph is determined. Note that background data, object data, and motion data are prepared in advance.

  For each sentence, based on the subject, predicate, object, and modifiers of the sentence, a character model corresponding to the subject is combined with motion data to create a character animation that is superimposed on the background. To display. If there is an object in the predicate, a character model corresponding to the object and its movement data are selected in the same way to create an animation, and the character animation is displayed on the background.

  Since animation is generated for each sentence, an animation that matches the length of the text can be created. The objects that make up the animation, its movement, and its background are selected based on the content of the blog text. Therefore, a longer animation can be displayed together with the text, and the content of the animation can be made suitable for the content of the text.

  A blog system that provides a function for creating an animation suitable for the text content of a blog is called an “animation blog system”.

[Constitution]
FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of an animated blog system 30 according to the present embodiment and related blocks in the vicinity. Referring to FIG. 1, the anime blog system 30 displays articles in the blog on the personal computer 40 in response to a request from a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as “personal computer”) 40 of a blog viewer via the Internet 32. In order to display on the device, add an article to the blog, update an article in the blog, or create an animation according to the contents of the article in response to a request from the creator of the blog When viewed from the outside, it functions as a server device for a blog service that combines text and animation. Furthermore, as will be described later, the animation blog system 30 has a function of accepting registration of character data, motion data, background data, and the like for animation from a personal computer connected to the Internet 32. By providing a system for accepting registration of such data and sharing it with the creator of the blog, the types of character data, motion data, and background data increase, making it easy to create animation suitable for the text content become.

  In this embodiment, a diary blog with animation is taken as an example. With reference to FIG. 1, on the display device of the personal computer 40 of the blog viewer, the blog title 50, the calendar area 56, the article of this blog on the date designated by the calendar, the latest article, etc. The blog text display area 52 for displaying the text of the specified article of the blog, and the animation automatically created in advance as an animation suitable for the blog text display area 52 and stored in the anime blog system 30 are displayed. And an animation display area 54.

  Of course, it goes without saying that other elements may be displayed as elements constituting the blog.

  The anime blog system 30 includes a web server 72 that can communicate with the personal computer 40 and the like via the Internet 32, and HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) requests transmitted from a plurality of personal computers on the Internet 32 via the web server 72. A session management system for managing a session with each personal computer so that communication with a plurality of personal computers can be performed without any contradiction, and for distributing an HTTP request received by the web server 72 to an appropriate one of a plurality of systems to be described later 74.

  The anime blog system 30 further includes HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) documents that display fixed information such as a blog creator's profile, blog articles created in time series, indexes to each article, and articles in the blog. A blog database (hereinafter referred to simply as “DB”) 60 for storing a blog and a template and a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) file used for creating a blog, and a blog DB 60 It includes an animation DB 64 for storing animations created for each blog article, and a resource group storage unit 68 for storing resources used when creating animations.

  The animation blog system 30 further communicates with a computer on the Internet 32 via the web server 72 and the session management system 74, and transmits resources such as character data, motion data, and background data transmitted from the animation creator on the Internet 32. By communicating with the blog creator computer on the Internet 32 via the web server 72 and the session management system 74 through the animation resource management system 70 for additional registration and management in the group storage unit 68, the blog DB 60 In addition to adding and updating articles in the blog, in response to a blog browsing request from a blog viewer computer on the Internet 32, the specified article of the specified blog and the animation stored in the animation DB 64 are displayed. A blog system 62 for replying a message, and a blog creator's computer on the Internet 32 via the web server 72 and the session management system 74 in response to the addition of a new article to the blog by the blog system 62. An animation suitable for the text of the blog article added to the blog system 62 is created according to the algorithm described later using the resources stored in the resource group storage unit 68, and is associated with the blog article and stored in the animation DB 64. And an animation creation system 66 for storage.

  Of these, the blog system 62 can be realized in the same manner as an existing one, and therefore, details thereof will not be described here. When there is a blog viewing request, the blog system 62 creates an HTML document by incorporating an article of a specified text into a predetermined template, and sends it back to the computer that sent the viewing request. Here, in order to display the animation in the blog, an area for animation display is provided as a template, and the animation URI in the animation DB 64 is designated as the URI of the animation to be displayed in the area. It is necessary to create an HTML document by incorporating a URI corresponding to the article. In the present embodiment, since it is assumed that the animation is displayed on the web browser, it is desirable to create the animation in the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) format. Of course, other formats may be used.

  As will be described later, the anime blog system 30 is realized by computer hardware having a communication function and a computer program operating on the computer hardware. FIG. 2 shows the function in a block diagram.

  Referring to FIG. 2, when the animation creation system 66 receives an input of the blog text 90 that is an article added by the blog system 62 (see FIG. 1), the object data and background stored in the resource group storage unit 68 are received. Candidates for creating animation suitable for the content of the blog text 90 are extracted from the data, operation data, etc., and the animation is automatically selected for each sentence of the article using the candidates selected by the blog creator. create. The blog text 90 can include a plurality of sentences.

  The resource group storage unit 68 uses the morpheme analysis dictionary 92 used for morphological analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis of the blog text 90, and tagging the obtained morpheme sequence to be used for animation creation. A tag dictionary 94 to be referred to, a language resource DB 96 storing language resources to be referred to when searching for background data, object data, and motion data used for animation creation based on tags, and directly used for animation creation. And a resource DB 98 for storing information related to resources. Note that the morpheme analysis dictionary 92 also holds information for syntax analysis and semantic analysis in a dictionary format (not shown).

  The language resource DB 96 includes a thesaurus 102 that stores synonyms of words and an ontology table 104 that describes the semantic relationship of words.

  The resource DB 98 stores a background table 106 for storing data used as the background of the animation (this is referred to as “background data”), and model data (this is referred to as “object” Object table 108 for storing data, and an action table 110 for storing data relating to movement of the object model (referred to as “action data”), a background table 106, and an object table 108. Each of the data stored in the operation table 110 includes a usage frequency table 112 for recording the usage frequency by each user.

  The animation creation system 66 receives the blog text 90 and performs morphological analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis on the blog text 90 with reference to the morphological analysis dictionary 92 to obtain grammatical information, syntactic information, and semantic information. A morpheme analysis processing unit 120 for outputting a morpheme sequence composed of morphemes to which morpheme is attached, a morpheme sequence storage unit 122 for storing a morpheme sequence output by the morpheme analysis processing unit 120, and a morpheme from the morpheme sequence storage unit 122 A column is read, a tagging processing unit 124 for outputting each morpheme with a tag for animation creation by referring to the tag dictionary 94, and a tagged morpheme sequence output by the tagging processing unit 124 are stored. And a tagged morpheme string storage unit 126.

  The animation creation system 66 further extracts a morpheme string for one paragraph from the tagged morpheme string storage unit 126, and creates a paragraph-specific tag structure to be described later based on tags of all sentences in the paragraph. A processing unit 130, a paragraph-specific tag structure storage unit 132 for storing the paragraph-specific tag structure output from the paragraph processing unit 130, and a paragraph-specific tag structure stored in the paragraph-specific tag structure storage unit 132. Of these, a single sentence tag processing unit 138 for specifying an element to be processed for each sentence is included.

  The animation creation system 66 is further attached to the background data in the background table 106 with reference to the thesaurus 102 and the ontology 104 based on the background related tags in the tag structure by paragraph stored in the tag structure storage unit 132 by paragraph. A background search unit 144 for matching background tags in the paragraph tag structure storage unit 132 and outputting background data as background candidates, and background candidates searched by the background search unit 144 And a background candidate storage unit 150 for storing.

  Similarly, the animation creation system 66 searches the object table 108 while referring to the thesaurus 102 and the ontology 104 based on the tagged morpheme included in the environment element of the one sentence to be processed specified by the one sentence tag processing unit 138. The object search unit 146 for searching object data of an object (a character in the case of a person) corresponding to a subject and object of a sentence and outputting the object candidate, and the object candidate output by the object search unit 146 Based on the object candidate storage unit 152 for storing and the motion-related tagged morpheme included in the one-sentence environmental element extracted by the one-sentence tag processing unit 138, the operation table 110 is referred to with reference to the thesaurus 102 and the ontology 104. Remember The motion search unit 148 for matching the motion table and outputting the matched motion data as a motion candidate, and the motion candidate storage unit 154 for storing the motion candidate output from the motion search unit 148 Including.

  The animation creation system 66 further receives a plurality of background candidates stored in the background candidate storage unit 150, a plurality of object candidates stored in the object candidate storage unit 152, and a plurality of motion data stored in the motion candidate storage unit 154. A selection processing unit 156 for presenting each of the candidates to the user and an animation obtained by combining the object data and the motion data selected by the user via the selection processing unit 156 are displayed by the selection processing unit 156. An animation creating unit 158 for creating an animation by displaying it on the selected background data and the animation created by the animation creating unit 158 are stored in the animation DB 64, and the blog text in the blog in the blog DB 60 Blog with 90 Includes a page containing a blog text 90, and animation storage blog updating unit 160 for updating the blog DB60 to associate and animations stored in the animation created DB64 by animation creating section 158. The animation storage / blog updating unit 160 updates the usage frequency of each data for the corresponding user in the usage frequency table 112 based on which background data, which object data, and which motion data is used by the animation creation unit 158. It also has a function to do.

  FIG. 3 shows a schematic configuration of the paragraph-specific tag structure 134 stored in the paragraph-specific tag structure storage unit 132. The tag structure by paragraph constitutes one scene element as a whole, and one scene element includes a plurality of environment elements 136 created in units of one sentence. Specifically, the tag structure for each paragraph is an XML (eXtended Markup Language) file, and each of the environmental elements is a tag related to background, action, object, etc. from a tagged single sentence morpheme sequence. The information searched according to a rule determined in advance with respect to the URL is stored together with the XML tag corresponding to the rule.

  Referring to FIG. 3, environmental elements 136 include a time element, a place element, a state element, and an entity element. The “element” described here refers to an element corresponding to a tag defined for the XML file.

  The element of time includes the elements of season, date, and time. The date and time are further subdivided. The place element includes a continent name element, a country name element, a city name element, and a background element.

  The state element includes a weather element.

  The element of the object includes a name element (subject), an element of its genus (category information based on the semantic system of the subject), and a feature element (a set of modifiers related to the subject). The characteristic element may include a plurality of morphemes. In addition, the category information regarding a certain word can be obtained by referring to the ontology.

  The physical element further includes an operational element. The action element corresponds to a predicate, and includes a name element (predicate stem), a genus element (category information of the predicate according to a predicate semantic system), and a target element.

  The target element is created from a modifier group of “noun + particle system” related to the predicate, and a plurality of target elements may be generated from one sentence. The target element includes a name element (noun) of “noun + particle system”, its genus (category) element, and a functional element (particle).

  FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the concept of ontology 104. Referring to FIG. 4, ontology 104 basically describes a relationship between a word and another word in a network format. In the present embodiment, ontology 104 hierarchically shows a relationship between a certain word and a category to which the word belongs. For example, the nodes “President”, “Taro”, “Dad”, and “Grandpa” shown in FIG. 4 are connected to the node “Men” by the relationship “having a parent node” (or “is a child node of”). linked. Similarly, the names of individual dogs such as “Pochi” and “Kuro” are connected to a node “dog” by a relationship “having a parent node”.

  In this embodiment, when there is object data corresponding to these nodes, a pointer to the object data is attached to the node. If there is no object data corresponding to the node, there is no point to the object data.

  When the ontology 104 is used, the following object data can be searched. That is, when a morpheme (word) is designated as a subject, whether or not there is a node corresponding to the word is searched in the ontology 104. Otherwise, the thesaurus 102 is used to search for similar words. If there is a pointer at the node of the searched word, the object data indicated by the pointer is adopted as the object data corresponding to the word. If the node does not have a pointer, the parent node is traced from that node, and the object data is obtained from the pointer of the first encounter with the node having the pointer to be the object data corresponding to the word.

  The ontology 104 includes not only an object but also a semantic network created by a similar association for movement.

  FIGS. 5A, 5B, and 5C show the configurations of the data record 170 of the object table 108, the data record 172 of the operation table 110, and the data record 174 of the background table 106, respectively.

  Referring to FIG. 5A, the data record 170 of the object table 108 includes a record identifier, the name of the object represented by this record, the category of the object represented by this record, and a plurality of data used for matching. It includes matching attributes, priority of this record, and object model data.

  The record identifier is a number for uniquely identifying a record in the object table 108.

  The name is the name of the object corresponding to this data record.

  A category refers to the name of a node above the node corresponding to the name of the data record 170 in the ontology 104.

  The matching attribute refers to a morpheme to which a tag designated in advance as a tag used for searching for an object record among tagged morphemes stored in each paragraph-based tag structure storage unit 132 is used. That means. For example, a morpheme to which a predetermined tag representing the feature of the object is attached, a morpheme to which a predetermined tag representing the position of the object is attached, and the like are used.

  The priority order is information for determining the display order in the selection by the object search unit 146 when a plurality of object records are searched. Actually, the display order is determined based on the composite priority calculated from the priority and the usage frequency of each object stored in the usage frequency table 112. In this case, a method for calculating the composite priority is determined in advance so that the composite priority increases as the usage frequency increases.

  The object data model is data obtained by modeling an object. More specifically, it refers to a collection of three-dimensional coordinate data of a plurality of feature points for defining the shape of an object. In order to facilitate the combination with the motion data, it is desirable that the number of feature points constituting the model is constant.

  Referring to FIG. 5B, data record 172 of operation table 110 similarly includes a record identifier, a name, a category, a matching attribute, and a priority. The data record 172 includes, instead of the object model data of FIG. 5A, motion pattern data that represents the three-dimensional motion of the model in time series of the coordinates of the feature points of the model.

  The matching attributes of the data record 172 of the action table 110 include the feature, position, name of the object, the name of the object object, the attribute of the object object, and the like.

  Referring to FIG. 5C, the data record 174 of the background table 106 includes a record identifier, a matching attribute, a priority order, and a pattern file including patterns constituting the background.

  The matching attributes of the data record 174 in the background table 106 include season, date, time, continent, country, weather, and the like. In these, the background data record stores seasonal values, date values, time values, related continent names, country names, weather names, and the like as attributes.

  As described above, the paragraph tag structure stored in the paragraph tag structure storage unit 132 in FIG. 2 and the sentence tag elements for each sentence included in the paragraph tag structure are as described above. The morpheme to which the tag for is attached is stored. These tags have the same classification as the matching attribute tags that make up the data records 170, 172, and 174. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the value of the matching attribute of the data record is compared with the value of the morpheme with the tag that matches the matching attribute among the morphemes in the paragraph or sentence being processed. Only those that match in all of the attributes set for the search, such as the name, category, and matching attribute, are extracted as candidates. However, those in which NULL is set as the matching attribute value of the data record 170 of the object table 108, the data record 172 of the operation table 110, and the data record 174 of the background table 106 are not compared. In other words, these attributes are always considered to match.

  FIG. 6A shows an example of the contents of the tag dictionary 94. Referring to FIG. 6, tag dictionary 94 stores rules for tagging. An example of a rule is "part of speech = noun and place name => place". This rule is that if a part of speech (of a morpheme) is a noun and a morpheme tag called place name is attached to the morpheme in the morpheme analysis process, a tag indicating “location” is attached to the morpheme ” It means that. Then, the tag “location” is inspected when matching the data record 174 of the background table 106 as shown in FIG.

  An example of another rule is “part of speech = noun and country ⇒ country”. This rule is “if a part of speech (of a certain morpheme) is a noun and a morpheme tag of country name as an attribute is attached to that morpheme in the morpheme analysis process, a tag indicating“ country ”is attached to that morpheme” It means that. This tag is also inspected when searching for background data as shown in FIG.

  FIG. 6B shows an example of the priority order of the data records shown in FIG. Here, an example of the priority order of the background data record in FIG. 5C is shown. Referring to FIG. 6B, in this embodiment, place priority is highest, followed by country and purpose. As described above, when a plurality of background data records are searched, candidates are displayed according to a priority order that combines the use frequency and the priority order.

  FIG. 7 shows a block diagram of the animation resource management system 70 shown in FIG. 1 together with a part of the resource group 68 and the web server 72. In FIG. 7, the session management system 74 of FIG. 1 is not shown.

  Referring to FIG. 7, the animation resource management system 70 includes an object table 108 stored in the resource group storage unit 68 through communication using a HTML document with a user on the network via the web server 72. This is for executing processing for registering a new resource in the background table 106 and the operation table 110. The animation resource management system 70 also has a function of additionally registering a node in the ontology 104 in response to a request from the user when registering an animation resource when the user is an administrator of the animation blog system 30.

  The animation resource management system 70 receives an input of a search condition such as a desired name and a matching attribute from a user, and searches and presents a record that matches the search condition from the object table 108, the background table 106, and the action table 110. A record search unit 200, a registration table classification unit 180 for receiving information on which of the object table 108, the background table 106, and the operation table 110 the information is registered from the user and determining a registration target table; The table determined by the registration table classification unit 180 should be added in addition to the name input unit 182 for receiving input of the name of data to be newly registered from the user and the name input by the name input unit 182 Record categories and matching And a category-attribute input unit 184 for receiving the sex of the input. The category / attribute input unit 184 refers to the ontology 104 to display the categories and the like existing in the ontology, and the user can determine the category of the name of the data to be added by viewing the display.

  The animation resource management system 70 further receives a data body to be registered from the user via the web server 72, receives the name input by the name input unit 182, the category input by the category / attribute input unit 184, and the matching attribute Is used to create and output a record to be newly registered, a temporary storage device 188 for temporarily storing a record output from the data reception unit 186, and a temporary storage device 188. And a data inspection unit 190 for inspecting whether or not the data in the recorded record satisfies a predetermined condition for registration in the object table 108, the background table 106, or the action table 110.

  The animation resource management system 70 further adds a new one to the object table 108, the background table 106, and the action table 110 in response to the data checking unit 190 determining that the data satisfies the condition. A data update unit 192 for adding a new record and possibly adding a new node corresponding to the name of the record to the ontology 104, and a response to the fact that the data check unit 190 determines that the record is incomplete. And an error processing unit 194 for outputting an error message to the user via the web server 72.

  The addition of the node to the ontology 104 by the data updating unit 192 is limited to the case where the user has a predetermined management qualification.

  The animated blog system 30 whose functional configuration is shown in block diagram form in FIG. 1 to FIG. 7 can be realized by computer hardware and computer software. As the blog system 62, an existing blog system can be used almost as it is. Hereinafter, a control structure of a computer program for realizing the animation creation system 66 and the animation resource management system 70 will be described.

  Note that the programs described below are not limited to the case where each is composed of a single program. For example, a program that sends a screen (form) requesting certain information to the user via the web server 72 and a program that receives and processes a response to the form may be different programs.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a control structure of computer software for realizing the animation creating system 66. Referring to FIG. 8, the program reads 220 the text of the added page in the blog to which a new page has been added by the user, and performs morphological analysis, parsing, and analysis on the read text. Performing a semantic analysis, outputting a morpheme sequence consisting of grammatical information, syntactic information, and morpheme to which semantic information is attached to a storage device and storing the morpheme sequence in this way, Applying the rules stored in the tag dictionary 94 to perform processing for adding a tag for creating animation to each morpheme, and the following steps for each of the obtained paragraphs of the tagged morpheme sequence: Steps for creating a tag structure for each paragraph for all paragraphs of a sentence to be processed by repeatedly executing the processes 226 to 242 It includes a 24, and a step 244 for outputting Thus paragraph by tag structures created by the tag information file in the storage device.

  The iterative process for each paragraph executed in step 224 includes a step 226 for creating a scene element item of the tag structure for each paragraph, and a step for repeating the following steps 230 to 240 for each sentence in the paragraph. 228 and step 242 indicating the end of the range of the iterative processing of step 224.

  Step 228 includes a step 230 of creating a list of subjects, predicates, objects, and modifiers of a sentence to be processed, and a word processing step that repeats the following steps 234 to 238 for each listed word. 232 and step 240 indicating the end of the range of the iterative process in step 228.

  The word processing step 232 includes a step 234 for creating an environmental element in the scene element, a step 236 for determining a tag for each environmental element, and a step 238 for indicating the end of the range of the iterative processing by the step 232.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a control structure of a program for realizing the background search unit 144 shown in FIG.

  Referring to FIG. 9, the program includes a step 270 for executing the processing described below for each paragraph in the blog text 90.

  That is, the processing performed for each paragraph in step 270 includes step 272 for matching the background table 106 with the scene element of the tag structure for each paragraph. In this matching, all names, categories, and matching attributes in the background table are matched with the morpheme or morpheme group corresponding to the corresponding tag element in the tag structure in each paragraph, and all of them are matched. Extract only matches. While only one element can be specified for each attribute of the background table, in the tag structure by paragraph, a plurality of elements can be specified as morphemes corresponding to a certain tag element. In such a case, if any one of the plurality of morphemes matches the value of the corresponding matching attribute in the background table, the condition is satisfied.

  Step 270 further arranges the background data retrieved in step 272 in order from the highest priority according to the composite priority obtained by combining the priority and the usage frequency for each user, and for screen display. Step 274 for creating a list of the above, step 276 for outputting the list created in Step 274 as a background data candidate list, and Step 278 for indicating the end of the range of repetitive processing by Step 270.

  FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a program for realizing the functions of the object search unit 146 and the operation search unit 148 shown in FIG. Referring to FIG. 10, this program includes a step 300 of repeating the following processing for all sentences in the paragraph to be processed.

  Step 300 includes a step 302 for executing processing for each object consisting of the following steps 304 to 310 for all objects included in the subject, object, and modifier included in the sentence to be processed; The step 312 for executing the processing for each predicate consisting of the following steps 314 to 320 for the predicates included in the sentence and the modifier, and the end of the range of the iterative processing in step 300 are shown. Step 322.

  The processing for each object executed in step 302 performs tag matching between the object table 108 and the environment element of the processing target statement, and sets the values in the environment element for all tags including values other than NULL. Step 304 for searching the data record of the object table having the matched value, and the data records searched in step 304 from the top in accordance with the composite priority calculated from the priority and the usage frequency by the user Step 306 for outputting an object candidate list by arranging in order of compound priority, step 308 for outputting the object candidate list created in step 306 to the object candidate storage unit 152 shown in FIG. 2, and repetition processing in step 302 Step 31 indicating the end of the range of Including the door.

  On the other hand, the processing for each predicate executed in step 312 performs matching between the matching attribute of the data record in the operation table 110 whose value is not NULL and the environment element created from the predicate to be processed. Then, step 314 for searching for a data record that matches all values as an operation candidate, and the operation data record searched in step 314 are calculated from their priority and the frequency of use of the data record by the user. Step 316 for creating an action candidate list by arranging the items in order from the highest priority according to the composite priority order, and Step 318 for outputting the action candidate list created in Step 316 to the action candidate storage unit 154 shown in FIG. And a step indicating the end of the range of the iterative processing in step 312. And a 320.

[Operation]
The animated blog system 30 described above operates as follows.

-Blog system-
The operation of the blog system 62 is almost the same as that of a normal blog server. That is, a user logs in to the blog system 62 using a personal computer and a web browser (not shown), and creates a new article. When the user requests the blog system 62 to register the article via the web server 72, the blog system 62 records the text of the article in the blog DB 60 along with the date and time. The blog system 62 further gives the text and the identifier of the blog article in the blog DB 60 to the animation creation system 66 to start the animation creation process.

-Creation of animation-
Referring to FIG. 2, the morphological analysis processing unit 120 of the animation creation system 66 performs morphological analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis using the morphological analysis dictionary 92 on the blog text (step 220) given from the blog system 62. Divide into morphemes and output morpheme strings with grammatical information, syntactic information, and semantic information consisting of various tags associated with morphological analysis, such as part-of-speech tags, inflection-type tags, and inflection-type tags (Step 222). This morpheme sequence is stored in the morpheme sequence storage unit 122.

  When the morpheme analysis by the morpheme analysis processing unit 120 is completed, the tagging processing unit 124 reads the morpheme sequence for each sentence from the morpheme sequence storage unit 122, refers to the tag dictionary 94, and adds a tagged morpheme for animation creation. The column is output (step 223). The tagged morpheme sequence is stored in the tagged morpheme sequence storage unit 126.

  The paragraph processing unit 130 extracts one paragraph from the tagged morpheme sequence stored in the tagged morpheme sequence storage unit 126 and creates a paragraph-specific tag structure 134 (step 226). Further, all sentences belonging to the paragraph are read one by one, and a paragraph-specific tag structure 134 is created (steps 228-240). The paragraph processing unit 130 repeats this process for all paragraphs. A series of tag structures 134 by paragraph created by the paragraph processing unit 130 is stored in the tag structure storage unit 132 by paragraph as a tag information file (step 244).

  The background search unit 144 includes a value of a background-related tag included in each paragraph tag structure stored in the paragraph tag structure storage unit 132 and a data record included in the background table 106 such as a name, a category, Then, matching is performed with a matching attribute whose value is not NULL, and a background data record in which all the values match is extracted (step 272). The background search unit 144 reads, for each of the extracted plurality of background candidates, the usage frequency of this user for the data records from the usage frequency table 112, and the read usage frequency and the priority order of the extracted data records. To calculate the composite priority of the data record. The background search unit 144 further creates a background candidate list by sorting the plurality of background candidates obtained in this way in descending order of their composite priority (step 274) and stores the background candidate list in the background candidate storage unit 150 (step 274). 276).

  On the other hand, the one-sentence tag processing unit 138 gives information indicating which of the environmental elements of each sentence included in the paragraph-specific tag structure storage unit 132 is a processing target to the object search unit 146 and the action search unit 148.

  The object search unit 146 selects an object (sentence, object, noun in modifier, etc.) in the sentence specified by the single sentence tag processing unit 138 from the tag structure by paragraph stored in the tag structure storage unit 132 by paragraph. ), And compares the values of the name, category, and matching attributes of each data record in the object table 108 with values that are not NULL, and all the values match. The object data record is searched (step 304). The object search unit 146 calculates a composite priority from the use frequency for each user of the searched data record stored in the use frequency table 112 and the priority of the searched data record, and the composite priority number Object candidate records are created by arranging them in a sequence (step 306). The created object candidate record is stored in the object candidate storage unit 152 (step 308).

  Similarly, the motion search unit 148 reads out the environment element corresponding to each predicate in the sentence designated by the single sentence tag processing unit 138 from the paragraph tag structure stored in the paragraph tag structure storage unit 132. The values of the names, categories, and matching attributes of each data record in the action table 110 are compared with those whose values are not NULL, and the action data records whose values all match are retrieved (step) 314). The action search unit 148, for all the action data records searched in this way, combines the user's use frequency stored in the use frequency table 112 and the priority order recorded in each data record. And a motion candidate list is created by arranging them in order of priority (step 316). The created motion candidate list is stored in the motion candidate storage unit 154 (step 318).

  The selection processing unit 156 includes, for each sentence, a background candidate list stored in the background candidate storage unit 150, an object candidate list stored in the object candidate storage unit 152, and a motion candidate list stored in the motion candidate storage unit 154. HTML documents (forms) each including a list box and a text prompting the user to select a candidate are generated and output to the user's personal computer via the web server 72. At this time, the head of the background candidate list shows the sentence having the highest priority for the first sentence in the paragraph by the background search unit 144, and the sentence after that is displayed in the immediately preceding sentence. The selected background candidate is displayed. When the user selects a background candidate, an object candidate, and an action candidate from this form, the selection result is returned to the selection processing unit 156. The selection processing unit 156 gives the selection result by the user to the animation creating unit 158.

  The animation creation unit 158 selects the background table, object table, and motion corresponding to the candidates from the background table 106, the object table 108, and the motion table 110 according to the values of the background candidate, motion candidate, and object candidate given by the selection processing unit 156. Read the data record of the table. The animation creation unit 158 creates a background according to the background pattern in the read background data record. The animation creating unit 158 further combines the object data record and the motion data record read in this way for each of the subject and the object included in one sentence, thereby moving the object (character) data with motion. Create By superimposing these animations on the background, an animation for one sentence being processed is created. The created animation is given to the animation storage / blog update unit 160.

  When the animation creation unit 158 creates animations for all sentences that can be animated in all paragraphs of the blog text 90, the animation storage / blog update unit 160 connects the animation data to each other. In addition, the record identifier storing the animation in the blog DB 60 is stored in the record storing the blog text 90 in the animation DB 64.

  When the blog system 62 receives, from the Internet 32 via the web server 72, a browsing request for a blog page in the blog DB 60 that stores an animation record identifier, the blog system 62 displays the text of the page in the blog text display area 52 ( In FIG. 1, HTML documents for displaying the corresponding animations in the animation display area 54 (see FIG. 1) are created and transmitted via the web server 72 to the personal computer that has transmitted the browsing request.

  In the personal computer that has transmitted the browsing request, as shown by the blog text display area 52 and the animation display area 54 in FIG. 1, the blog text and the animation created for each sentence of the blog text are displayed. . The animation displayed in the animation display area 54 corresponds to the text displayed in the blog text display area 52, not just the user's avatar, and the background, characters appearing, and movements in accordance with the development of the text. The animation will change. Therefore, it is possible to provide a more interesting blog system as compared with a simple avatar animation display.

-Registration of resource data-
On the other hand, when the user creates background data, action data, or object data and registers it in the resource group storage unit 68 shown in FIG. 1, the animation resource management system 70 operates as follows. A tool for creating such data (so-called animation authoring tool) on the user's personal computer operates on the user's personal computer, and the completed data is transmitted to the anime blog system 30.

  Referring to FIG. 7, when the user calls record search unit 200, record search unit 200 receives an input of conditions for data record search through interaction with the user. When the conditions are determined, the record search unit 200 searches the background table 106, the object table 108, and the action table 110 for those satisfying the conditions specified by the user from those specified by the user, A reply is made to the user via the server 72.

  The program for this purpose is to generate and output an HTML document (form) for condition input, and to check the contents upon receiving input from the user. Can be used for displaying a list. Preferably, it is desirable to be able to see the detailed contents of the data from the list display.

  If a preferable resource (for example, an object) is not found as a result of this search, the user creates such resource data on his / her personal computer and registers it in an appropriate table in the resource group storage unit 68 as follows. To do.

  First, the user uses the registration table classification unit 180 to specify in which table the resource is registered. Subsequently, the name input unit 182 inputs the name of the resource (object, background, operation, etc.) to be registered in the selected table. The name input unit 182 gives the input name to the category / attribute input unit 184 together with the table name to be registered. The category / attribute input unit 184 uses the record information of the specified table name to create a screen for inputting a category, a matching attribute, etc., and transmits it to the user's personal computer. Result information is returned from the user's personal computer to the category / attribute input unit 184 via the web server 72. The category / attribute input unit 184 gives the data receiving unit 186 the table name to be registered, the name specified by the user as the registration target, and the category and matching attribute value of the record specified by the user.

  The data reception unit 186 transmits a form for uploading data constituting the resource to the animation resource management system 70 via the web server 72 to the user's personal computer via the web server 72. When the user sends the data constituting the resource according to this form, information for the resource data record is created based on the data of the resource and the registration target table name, resource name, category, matching attribute, etc., and is temporarily stored. Held in device 188.

  The data checking unit 190 checks the content of the information stored in the temporary storage device 188 and determines whether or not the resource data can be registered in the specified table and whether or not there is an error. If there is an error, the data checking unit 190 gives a signal to that effect to the error processing unit 194, and if there is no error, gives a signal requesting registration of resource data to the data updating unit 192.

  The error processing unit 194 creates an HTML document for displaying a message that an error has occurred, and transmits the HTML document to the user's personal computer via the web server 72. In this case, in this embodiment, the process is repeated from the registration table classification unit 180.

  On the other hand, when the data update unit 192 receives a signal for requesting registration from the data inspection unit 190, the data update unit 192 transmits the signal to the table designated by the user among the background table 106, the object table 108, and the operation table 110. Register resource data with name, category and matching attributes specified by the user. In this case, an arbitrary value may be registered as the priority order. There may be an implementation in which the user inputs the priority order in the category / attribute input unit 184, for example.

  When the user has a predetermined authority, the same processing as described above can be executed for the ontology 104.

  As described above, according to the anime blog system 30 according to the present embodiment, when a text including a plurality of sentences is input to the blog, an animation suitable for the content of the text is almost automatically created based on the text. Is done. The user need only select each candidate from the presented list that seems to be particularly suitable for the content of the text. As a result, it is possible to provide an animated blog system that can provide animation suitable for the content of text including a plurality of sentences together with the text.

<Second Embodiment>
[Constitution]
In the first embodiment described above, animation is created from the blog text at once. However, the present invention is not limited to such an embodiment. For each sentence, a subject, a predicate, and an object can be designated to create a sentence and an animation corresponding to the sentence can be created. FIG. 11 shows an example of a screen for that purpose.

  Referring to FIG. 11, this screen 340 includes a field 350 for inputting a word for designating a scene, fields 352, 354 and 356 for inputting a subject, an object, and a predicate of a sentence, Instructed to search each candidate from the ontology 104, background table 106, object table 108 and action table 110 described above in relation to the first embodiment based on the words input to 352, 354 and 356 A search button 358 for performing the search, a tab display area 360 for displaying the searched background candidates, object candidates for the subject and object, and motion candidates in a thumbnail format, and allowing the user to select a desired candidate, and a tab display. Tabs 362, 364, and 3 for switching the display of the area 360 among background, subject, object, and predicate. And a 6 and 368.

  The screen 340 further displays an animation created by superimposing an animation obtained by combining the selected object data and motion data and a background image obtained from the selected background data. An animation display area 380, a text area 382 that sequentially displays sentences formed by the words input in the fields 352, 354, and 356, and when the creation of the text and animation is completed, the user can edit the text and animation. A registration button 384 used for instructing to register the URL to the blog, and an OK button 386 operated by the user when an animation corresponding to one sentence is completed.

  Morphological analysis, tagging, data record search, etc. for the input sentence are the same as in the first embodiment. Therefore, details thereof will not be repeated here.

  FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a control structure of a program for inputting a sentence using screen 340 shown in FIG. 11 and creating an animation. Referring to FIG. 12, this program receives a single sentence input from the field shown in FIG. 11, and determines whether or not a registration button 384 is operated instead of a single sentence in step 400. If the operation is performed, step 424 described later includes step 402 for branching the processing to step 404 described later otherwise.

  The program further performs a morphological analysis, a syntactic analysis, and a semantic analysis on the inputted sentence when it is determined in step 402 that the registration button 384 is not operated but a sentence is inputted. Step 406 for performing tagging processing similar to that of the first embodiment on the morpheme string obtained by the processing of step 404, and object data for the inputted subject, object, and modifier of one sentence 408, and a list of motion data candidates for predicates and modifiers is searched using a tag to create a list, and a list of background data candidates is searched based on background-related tags in a paragraph to create a list. Step 410 is included.

  As a result of the processing in step 408, thumbnail buttons representing the characteristics of each data are displayed in the tab display area 360 shown in FIG. 11 according to the selected tab. By pressing an arbitrary thumbnail button, the user can select desired background data, object data, and motion data.

  This program further displays candidate thumbnail buttons corresponding to the displayed tabs in the tab display area 360 according to the list obtained in steps 408 and 410, and selects the top data of the list as a default step 412. And a step 414 for combining the selected object data and motion data with the selected background data and displaying it in the animation display area 380, and an animation displayed in the animation display area 380. On the other hand, it is determined whether the button operated by the user is a thumbnail button of an arbitrary tab on the tab display area 360. If the determination result is YES, the process branches to step 414; otherwise, the next process is performed. And step 416.

  The program further determines whether a single sentence input using any of the fields 350, 352, 354, and 356 has been performed again when it is determined in step 416 that the thumbnail has not been manipulated; Step 418 is included that branches the process according to the determination result. In step 418, if one sentence is input, the process branches to step 404. Otherwise, the process proceeds to the next step 420.

  The program further determines whether or not the OK button 386 has been operated when it is determined in step 418 that a single sentence has been input. If the OK button 386 has been operated, the program proceeds to the next step 422. In step 414, in response to determining that the OK button 386 has been operated in step 420 for branching the processing in step 420, the input sentence is added to the text area 382 and input. And step 422 for returning control to step 400 after adding a sentence of text and an animation created based on the text to temporary storage.

  In response to determining that the registration button 384 has been pressed in step 402, the program registers the blog text that has been temporarily stored in the blog so far, and displays the animation that has been stored in the same manner. And a step 424 of registering in the animation DB in association with the blog and this article in the blog.

[Operation]
The blog system according to the second embodiment operates as follows. When the blog management user accesses the blog and selects to add an article, a screen 340 shown in FIG. 11 is displayed on the user's personal computer. An HTML document for displaying this screen is created by a web server and a blog system, and transmitted to the user's personal computer via the web server.

  When the user specifies the background, subject, object, and predicate of a sentence using the areas 350, 352, 354, and 356, a sentence composed of the subject, object, and predicate is analyzed (step 404), and animation is created. Is tagged (step 406). Based on this tag, as in the first embodiment, background data candidates, object data candidates constituting the subject, object data candidates constituting the object, and motion data candidates constituting the predicate are animated. A background table, an object table, an action table, and the like in the resource are searched, and a list of candidates for the background, subject, object, and predicate is created based on the candidates (steps 408 and 410).

  In the tab display area 360, thumbnail buttons including representative images of data included in the list corresponding to the tab selected at that time among the tabs 362 to 368 are arranged and displayed. The leading data is selected as default data (step 412).

  In this state, an animation is created by combining the selected candidates and displayed in the animation display area 380 (step 414).

  Subsequently, when the user presses one of the thumbnails (YES in step 416), an animation is again created and displayed on the assumption that a candidate corresponding to the thumbnail has been selected (step 414). Note that when an operation of pressing any of the tabs 362, 364, 366, and 368 is performed, the display contents of the tab display area 360 are simply changed.

  If the user does not press the tab and operates the fields 350, 352, 354, and 356 shown in FIG. 11, it is considered that one sentence has been input again, and the process returns to step 404. If it is determined that the OK button 386 has been pressed (YES in step 420), the input sentence is additionally displayed in the text area 382, and the sentence and the animation displayed in the animation display area 380 at that time are displayed. Are additionally stored in a temporary storage area (not shown). After this, the process returns to step 400 and waits for input of the next sentence.

  If the user presses the registration button 384 while waiting for the input of one sentence, the determination result in step 402 in FIG. 12 is YES, and the processing in step 424 is executed. In step 424, the text accumulated in the temporary storage area in the previous processing is registered in the blog as the text of the additional page of the blog, and the animation data accumulated in the temporary storage area is similarly registered in the animation DB. . On the page added to the blog, the identifier of the data record of the corresponding animation DB is recorded.

  As a result of this processing, as in the first embodiment, when a browsing request for this blog page is received, an HTML document for displaying the corresponding animation is created along with the text of the page, and the browsing request is transmitted. Sent to the PC that has been sent. As a result, as in the first embodiment, an animation suitable for the content of the text is displayed together with the text of the blog as shown in FIG. As described above, no special skill is required to create an animation, and anyone can easily create an animation suitable for the content of the text.

  In the second embodiment, as in the first embodiment, any of operation data, object data, and background data can be added by the user. The same system as that described in connection with the first embodiment may be used.

[Realization by computer]
As described above, both the first embodiment and the second embodiment can be realized by computer hardware and a program executed by the computer hardware. FIG. 13 shows an external appearance of a general computer system 450 for realizing the anime blog system according to the above-described embodiment, and FIG. 14 shows an internal configuration of the computer system 450 in a block diagram form.

  Referring to FIG. 13, a computer system 450 includes a computer 460, a monitor 462, a keyboard 466, a mouse 468, a microphone 490, and a pair of speakers 458 that are all connected to the computer 460. The computer 460 includes a DVD drive 470 capable of reproducing and recording a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc), and a memory port 472 into which a semiconductor memory storage device according to a predetermined standard can be mounted. The internal configuration of the computer 460 will be described later with reference to FIG.

  Referring to FIG. 14, in addition to DVD drive 470 and memory port 472 shown in FIG. 13, computer 460 has a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 476 and a bus 486 connected to CPU 476, both connected to bus 486. A ROM (Read Only Memory) 478, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 480, a hard disk 474, a network interface 496 for providing a data communication function with other communication devices on the network such as the Internet, and a sound board 488. Including.

  A DVD 482 is attached to the DVD drive 470. A semiconductor memory storage device 484 is attached to the memory port 472. CPU 476 can access DVD 482 and memory 484 via bus 486 and DVD drive 470 and memory port 472, respectively.

  The keyboard 466, mouse 468, and monitor 462 are all connected to the bus 486 of the computer 460 via an interface not shown. The speaker 458 and the microphone 490 are connected to the sound board 488.

  The resource group storage unit 68, the morpheme sequence storage unit 122, the tagged morpheme sequence storage unit 126, the paragraph-specific tag structure storage unit 132, etc. described in relation to the first embodiment are the RAM 480, the hard disk 474, the DVD Any of the disk 482 and the semiconductor memory storage device 484 can be realized. Actually, the most efficient storage device is selected to realize each storage unit depending on the capacity of data to be stored, the speed required for reading and writing, and the like.

  The computer program for realizing the anime blog system according to the first and second embodiments described above may be a single program or a combination of a plurality of programs. In particular, among the functions of each unit described above, for the web server 72 and the session management system 74, programs that have already been widely distributed can be used as they are. Of course, since these programs are created for general use, it is necessary to make appropriate adjustments, but for those who have ordinary knowledge in this technical field, they are within the range that can be easily realized according to the purpose. stay.

  The blog system 62 shown in FIG. 1 can use an existing blog system almost as it is. The necessary modification is that the animation creation system 66 is activated when the input of the text is completed, and when the browse request for the blog page is received, not only the text of the blog but also the corresponding animation is searched in the animation DB 64. The only point is that an HTML document set to be displayed is created.

  The embodiment disclosed herein is merely an example, and the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment. The scope of the present invention is indicated by each of the claims after taking into account the description of the detailed description of the invention, and all modifications within the meaning and scope equivalent to the wording described therein are intended. Including.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the animation blog system 30 which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an animation creation system 66 and a resource group storage unit 68 of the anime blog system 30. FIG. It is a figure which shows typically the structure of the tag structure 134 according to a paragraph. FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically showing a configuration of an ontology table 104. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of the data record 170,172 and 174 of the object table 108, the operation table 110, and the background table 106. FIG. It is a schematic diagram which shows the example of the priority of a tagging rule and background data. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an animation resource management system 70. FIG. It is a blow chart which shows the control structure of the computer program which implement | achieves the animation production system 66. It is a flowchart which shows the control structure of the program for implement | achieving the background search part 144. It is a flowchart of the program for implement | achieving the function of the object search part 146 and the operation | movement search part 148. It is a schematic diagram which shows the animation creation screen displayed by the animation blog system which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart of the computer program for implement | achieving the animation production system of the animation blog system which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. 1 is a front view of a general computer system for realizing an anime blog system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the internal structure of the computer system shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

30 Anime Blog System 32 Internet 40 PC 60 Blog DB
62 Blog System 64 Anime DB
66 Animation creation system 68 Resource group storage unit 70 Animation resource management system 72 Web server 74 Session management system 90 Blog text 92 Morphological analysis dictionary 94 Tag dictionary 96 Language resource DB
98 Resource DB
102 Thesaurus 104 Ontology 106 Background Table 108 Object Table 110 Operation Table 112 Usage Frequency Table 120 Morphological Analysis Processing Unit 124 Tagging Processing Unit 130 Paragraph Processing Unit 134 Paragraph Tag Structure 136 Environment Element 138 Single-Sentence Tag Processing Unit 144 Background Search Unit 146 Object search unit 148 Motion search unit 156 Selection processing unit 158 Animation creation unit 160 Animation storage / blog update unit 180 Registration table classification unit 182 Name input unit 184 Category / attribute input unit 186 Data reception unit 188 Temporary storage device 190 Data inspection unit 192 Data update unit 194 Error processing unit 200 Record search unit

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A text input means for receiving text input by the user;
Animation generating means for generating an animation related to the content of the text based on the text input via the text input means;
Storage means for storing the animation generated by the animation generation means in association with the text input via the text input means;
A data communication means connected to the network and for performing data communication with other communication devices connected to the network;
In response to receiving a browsing request for any of the text stored in the storage unit from the network via the data communication unit, the text and the text are stored in the storage unit in association with the text. A text and animation service device, including a transmission means for transmitting animation via the data communication means to a communication device that has transmitted the browsing request. The animation generating means includes
Resource storage means for storing resources used to generate the animation;
Means for retrieving a resource associated with the content of the text from the resource storage means based on the text input via the text input means, and generating an animation by combining the retrieved resources;
The text and animation service device further includes resource addition means for receiving a resource used for generating an animation from a user on the network via the data communication means and adding it to the resource storage means. The text and animation service device according to claim 1, comprising: The resource includes background data for drawing the background of the animation, object data that defines the shape of an object that appears during the animation, and operation data indicating the operation of the model,
The text and animation service device according to claim 2, wherein the resource adding means includes means for distinguishing and adding the background data, the object data, and the motion data to the resource. The text input means includes means for receiving an input of an arbitrary number of sentences from the other communication devices on the network via the data communication means,
The animation generating means includes
Analysis means for performing morphological analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis on the text input via the text input means, and outputting a morpheme string with grammatical information, syntactic information, and semantic information When,
Based on the grammatical information, syntactic information and semantic information attached to each morpheme, the morpheme sequence output by the analysis means is related to the background of the animation, the object appearing in the animation, and the operation of each object. Tagging means for adding a plurality of types of tags to each morpheme,
Paragraph processing means for dividing the morpheme sequence tagged by the tagging means into a plurality of paragraphs by character codes indicating paragraph breaks;
For each paragraph divided by the paragraph processing means, background determining means for determining background data constituting the background of the animation based on a morpheme tagged with a background related by the tagging means;
For each sentence in the paragraph divided by the paragraph processing means, the tagging means determines object data constituting an object appearing in the animation based on a morpheme with a tag related to the appearing object. An object determination means for
For each sentence in the paragraph divided by the paragraph processing means, the tagging means defines the behavior of each object appearing in the animation based on a morpheme that is tagged with a tag related to the behavior of the appearing object. Action determining means for determining action data to be performed;
An animation of an object created by combining the object data determined by the object determining means and the action data determined by the action determining means for each sentence in the paragraph divided by the paragraph processing means. 4. The text and animation service device according to claim 3, further comprising: means for generating an animation by superimposing on a background generated based on the background data determined by the background determining means. The text input means includes means for receiving input of a background, subject, object and predicate of one sentence from another communication device on the network via the data communication means,
The animation generating means includes
Analysis means for performing morphological analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis on the text input via the text input means, and outputting a morpheme string with grammatical information, syntactic information, and semantic information When,
Based on the grammatical information, syntactic information and semantic information attached to each morpheme, the morpheme sequence output by the analysis means is related to the background of the animation, the object appearing in the animation, and the operation of each object. Tagging means for adding a plurality of types of tags to each morpheme,
Background determining means for determining background data constituting the background of the animation based on the morpheme tagged with the background by the tagging means;
Object determining means for determining object data constituting an object appearing in an animation based on a morpheme tagged with a tag related to the appearing object by the tagging means;
Motion determining means for determining motion data defining each motion of an object appearing in an animation based on a morpheme tagged with a tag related to the motion of the object appearing by the tagging device;
Generating an animation of an object created by combining the object data determined by the object determining means and the motion data determined by the motion determining means based on the background data determined by the background determining means 4. A text and animation service device according to claim 3, comprising means for generating an animation by overlaying a background to be rendered. When executed by a computer comprising a storage device and a data communication device connected to a network and performing data communication with another communication device connected to the network, the computer is
A text input means for receiving text input by the user;
Animation generating means for generating an animation related to the content of the text based on the text input via the text input means;
Storage means for storing the animation generated by the animation generation means in the storage device in association with the text input via the text input means;
In response to receiving a browsing request for any of the text stored in the storage device from the network via the data communication means, the text and the text are stored in the storage device in association with the text. A computer program that causes an animation and a communication device that has transmitted the viewing request to function as a transmission unit for transmitting the animation via the data communication device.

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