JP5901450B2 - Electronic manual creation device, electronic manual browsing device, and electronic manual creation browsing system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic manual creation device that creates an electronic manual for a GUI of a predetermined program, an electronic manual browsing device that browses the created electronic manual, and an electronic manual creation and browsing system that includes these devices.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an electronic manual creation apparatus that automatically creates an electronic manual (operation manual) for a GUI of a predetermined program is known (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In the electronic manual creation device disclosed in Patent Document 1, the content of the GUI operation and the GUI image that is the result of the operation are automatically obtained from the program having the GUI that created the electronic manual. An electronic manual is automatically created based on the content.

JP 2006-227730 A

  However, in the conventional electronic manual creation device disclosed in Patent Document 1, it is necessary to extract the screen name, input items, input button names, and the like, which are data related to GUI operations, from the screen image and convert them into text. is there. For this reason, there is a problem that conversion takes time and an electronic manual cannot be created quickly.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an electronic manual creation device capable of reducing the time required for creation of an electronic manual, and an electronic device for browsing an electronic manual created by the electronic manual creation device. It is an object of the present invention to provide a manual browsing device and an electronic manual creation browsing system including these devices.

  An electronic manual creation device according to the present invention includes: a first time measurement unit that creates a time signal at regular intervals; an operation control unit that creates an operation signal indicating an operation of a manual creator on a GUI screen image; The GUI image at the first time is temporarily stored together with the first time based on the time signal created by the time measuring means, and the GUI is updated based on the operation signal created by the operation control means. A memory for temporarily storing a second time when the GUI screen image is updated together with the screen image of the first time, a first time temporarily stored in the memory, and a GUI screen image at the first time, Video log acquisition means for acquiring a video log in association with the second time and the GUI screen image updated at the second time; An operation log acquisition unit that associates the operation signal created by the control unit with the second time and converts it into digital data and acquires it as an operation log, a video log acquired by the video log acquisition unit, and an operation log acquisition unit The electronic manual creation means for obtaining the operation log obtained by the above and creating an electronic manual based on the first time and the second time is provided.

  In the electronic manual browsing device according to the present invention, the operation signal is created based on the second time measuring means for creating a time signal at regular intervals and the time signal created by the second time measuring means. Electronic manual reproduction means for converting the acquired electronic manual into a screen image at time intervals is provided.

  According to the present invention, the operation signal indicating the operation of the manual creator for the GUI screen image and the second time when the GUI screen image is updated based on the operation signal are associated with each other and converted into digital data. Since it is acquired as a log, the time required for creating an electronic manual can be shortened.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the electronic manual creation browsing system which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the electronic manual preparation apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the internal process of the electronic manual creation apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the electronic manual browsing apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the internal process of the electronic manual browsing apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen image of the electronic manual in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the creation example of the screen image accompanying the time passage of the electronic manual in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the electronic manual creation apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the electronic manual browsing apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the electronic manual creation apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 3 of this invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an electronic manual creation / viewing system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, the electronic manual creation and browsing system includes an electronic manual creation device 1 that creates an electronic manual for a GUI of a predetermined program, and an electronic manual browsing device that browses an electronic manual created by the electronic manual creation device 1. 2. The electronic manual created by the electronic manual creation device 1 is recorded on the recording medium 3, and the electronic manual browsing device 2 acquires and browses the electronic manual from the recording medium 3.

First, the configuration of the electronic manual creation device 1 will be described with reference to FIG.
As shown in FIG. 2, the electronic manual creation apparatus 1 includes a time measurement means (first time measurement means) 101, a GUI creation means 102, a memory 103, an operation control means 104, a video log acquisition means 105, a video log recording means. 106, an operation log acquisition unit 107, an operation log recording unit 108, an electronic manual creation unit 109, an electronic manual recording unit 110, and an electronic manual output unit 111.
The electronic manual creation device 1 includes a display unit 4 that acquires a GUI screen image stored in the memory 103 and displays it on a manual creator, and a manual creator for the screen image displayed on the display unit 4. The operation means 5 for receiving the operation is connected.

  The time measuring means 101 creates a time signal indicating the time for every fixed period. The time signal created by the time measuring unit 101 is output to the memory 103 and the operation log obtaining unit 107.

  The GUI creation unit 102 creates a GUI screen image of a program for which an electronic manual is to be created. The GUI creation unit 102 obtains an operation signal from the operation control unit 104, and creates (updates) a GUI screen image in accordance with an instruction indicated by the operation signal. The GUI image created by the GUI creation unit 102 is output to the memory 103.

  The memory 103 temporarily stores the screen image of the GUI from the GUI creation unit 102 at the first time together with the first time based on the time signal from the time measurement unit 101, and further creates it by the operation control unit 104. The second time when the GUI screen image is updated is temporarily stored together with the GUI screen image updated by the GUI creation means 102 based on the operated signal. The GUI screen image stored in the memory 103 is extracted by the display unit 4, and the GUI screen image at the first time, the first time, the second time, and the second time are displayed. The updated GUI screen image is extracted by the video log acquisition means 105.

  The operation control unit 104 creates an operation signal for the screen image displayed on the display unit 4 based on the operation of the manual creator accepted by the operation unit 5. The operation signal generated by the operation control unit 104 is output to the GUI generation unit 102 and the operation log acquisition unit 107.

  The video log acquisition unit 105 includes a first time temporarily stored in the memory 103, a screen image of the GUI at the first time, and a GUI updated at the second time and the second time. The screen image is associated with the screen image and acquired as a video log including a moving image or a still image which is digital data. The video log acquired by the video log acquisition unit 105 is output to the video log recording unit 106.

  The video log recording unit 106 records the video log from the video log acquisition unit 105. The video log recorded in the video log recording means 106 is extracted by the electronic manual creation means 109.

  The operation log acquisition unit 107 acquires an operation signal from the operation control unit 104 at the time of creation, converts the operation signal into digital data (for example, text) such as a screen name, input item, and input button name. The generation time (second time) of the operation signal based on the time signal from the time measuring means 101 is converted into digital data (for example, text) and acquired as an operation log in association with it. The operation log acquired by the operation log acquisition unit 107 is output to the operation log recording unit 108.

  The operation log recording unit 108 records the operation log from the operation log acquisition unit 107. The operation log recorded in the operation log recording means 108 is extracted by the electronic manual creation means 109.

  The electronic manual creation unit 109 acquires the video log from the video log recording unit 106, acquires the operation log from the operation log recording unit 108, and stores the operation log in the video log based on the first time and the second time. This is an electronic manual that multiplexes. The electronic manual created by the electronic manual creation means 109 is output to the electronic manual recording means 110.

  The electronic manual recording means 110 records the electronic manual from the electronic manual creation means 109. The electronic manual recorded in the electronic manual recording means 110 is extracted by the electronic manual output means 111.

  The electronic manual output unit 111 acquires an electronic manual from the electronic manual recording unit 110 and outputs it to the recording medium 3.

Next, internal processing of the electronic manual creation apparatus 1 configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG.
In the internal processing of the electronic manual creation device 1, as shown in FIG. 3, first, the GUI creation means 102 creates a GUI screen image of a program for which an electronic manual is to be created and temporarily stores it in the memory 103 (step ST31). At this time, the memory 103 stores the screen image of the GUI together with the first time based on the time signal from the time measuring unit 101.

Next, the display unit 4 acquires a GUI screen image from the memory 103 and displays it on the manual creator (step ST32).
Next, the operation unit 5 receives an operation of the manual creator for the screen image displayed on the display unit 4. Then, the operation control means 104 creates an operation signal based on this operation (step ST33). Here, the operation signal includes data relating to an operation on the GUI, such as a name of a screen to be operated, an input item, and an input button name.

  Next, when obtaining the operation signal from the operation control means, the GUI creation means 102 updates the GUI screen image according to the instruction indicated by the operation signal, and temporarily stores it in the memory 103 (step ST34). At this time, the memory 103 stores the GUI image together with the second time when the GUI screen image is updated. Thereafter, the operations on the GUI screen image are performed by repeating the operations of steps ST32 to ST34.

  On the other hand, the video log acquisition unit 105 is updated at the first time temporarily stored in the memory 103, the GUI screen image at the first time, the second time, and the second time. The GUI screen image is associated with the image and acquired as a video log composed of a moving image or a still image as digital data, and recorded in the video log recording means 106 (step ST35).

  Further, the operation log acquisition unit 107 acquires the operation signal from the operation control unit 104 at the time of creation, and converts the operation signal into digital data (for example, text) such as a screen name, an input item, and an input button name. At the same time, the generation time (second time) of the operation signal based on the time signal from the time measuring means 101 is converted into digital data (for example, text) and acquired as an operation log in association with it. Recording is performed (step ST36).

  Next, the electronic manual creation unit 109 acquires the video log from the video log recording unit 106, acquires the operation log from the operation log recording unit 108, and stores the operation log in the video log based on the first time and the second time. An electronic manual in which operation logs are multiplexed is created and recorded in the electronic manual recording means 110 (step ST37).

  Next, the electronic manual output unit 111 acquires the electronic manual from the electronic manual recording unit 110 and records it on the recording medium 3 (step ST38).

Next, the configuration of the electronic manual browsing device 2 will be described with reference to FIG.
As shown in FIG. 4, the electronic manual browsing device 2 includes time measuring means (second time measuring means) 201, electronic manual input means 202, and electronic manual reproduction means 203.
The electronic manual browsing device 2 is connected to display means 6 for displaying a screen image converted by the electronic manual reproducing means 203 to a manual viewer.

  The time measuring means 201 creates a time signal indicating the time for every fixed period. The time signal created by the time measuring unit 201 is output to the electronic manual reproducing unit 203.

  The electronic manual input unit 202 acquires an electronic manual from the recording medium 3. The electronic manual acquired by the electronic manual input means 202 is output to the electronic manual reproduction means 203.

  The electronic manual reproduction means 203 acquires the electronic manual from the electronic manual input means 202, and based on the time signal from the time measurement means 201, the time interval at which the operation log acquisition means 107 of the electronic manual creation apparatus 1 acquires the operation signal. The electronic manual is converted into a screen image. The screen image converted by the electronic manual reproduction means 203 is output to the display means 6.

Next, the internal processing of the electronic manual browsing device 2 configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG.
In the internal processing of the electronic manual browsing device 2, as shown in FIG. 5, first, the electronic manual input means 202 acquires an electronic manual from the recording medium 3 (step ST51).

  Next, the electronic manual reproduction unit 203 acquires the electronic manual from the electronic manual input unit 202, and the operation log acquisition unit 107 of the electronic manual creation device 1 acquires the operation signal based on the time signal from the time measurement unit 201. The electronic manual is converted into a screen image at time intervals (step ST52).

  Next, the display unit 4 displays the screen image of the electronic manual from the electronic manual reproduction unit 203 to the manual viewer (step ST53). Thereby, for example, a screen image as shown in FIG. 6 can be displayed. Here, in the screen image of the electronic manual shown in FIG. 6, a video log presentation area 11 for displaying a video log and an operation log presentation area 12 for displaying an operation log exist in the electronic manual display area 10 of the display means 6. ing.

FIG. 7 is an example of creating a screen image as time elapses in the first embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIGS. 7A to 7C, the contents displayed in the video log presentation area 11 and the operation log presentation area 12 are the time when the operation log acquisition means 107 of the electronic manual creation apparatus 1 acquires the operation signal. Updated automatically at intervals. The video log presentation area 11 may display either a moving image or a still image.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment, the operation signal indicating the operation of the manual creator with respect to the GUI screen image is associated with the second time when the GUI screen image is updated based on the operation signal. Since it is converted into digital data and acquired as an operation log, the time required for creating an electronic manual can be shortened compared to the conventional technology.

  Further, since the electronic manual output means 111 for outputting the electronic manual created by the electronic manual creation device 1 to the recording medium 3 is provided, the electronic manual is sent to a large number of electronic manual browsing devices 2 via the recording medium 3 unlike the prior art. Can be distributed.

  Further, since the screen image of the electronic manual displayed on the electronic manual browsing device 2 is automatically updated at the time interval when the operation log acquisition means 107 of the electronic manual creation device 1 acquires the operation signal, the program GUI You can understand the operating procedure while experiencing the actual passage of time.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a configuration of the electronic manual creation device 1 according to the second embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a configuration of the electronic manual browsing device 2. The electronic manual creation device 1 and the electronic manual browsing device 2 according to the second embodiment shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 use the electronic manual output means 111 of the electronic manual creation device 1 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG. (First communication control means) 112, and the electronic manual input means 202 of the electronic manual browsing device 2 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG. 4 is changed to the communication control means (second communication control means) 204. Is. Other configurations are the same, and the same reference numerals are given and description thereof is omitted.

The communication control unit 112 acquires an electronic manual from the electronic manual recording unit 110 and distributes it to the electronic manual browsing device 2 via the network 7.
The communication control unit 204 acquires the electronic manual distributed by the communication control unit 112 via the network 7. The electronic manual acquired by the communication control unit 204 is output to the electronic manual reproduction unit 203.
The electronic manual reproducing unit 203 acquires an electronic manual from the communication control unit 204 instead of the electronic manual input unit 202.

  As described above, according to the second embodiment, the communication control unit 112 is used in place of the electronic manual output unit 111 and is distributed to the electronic manual browsing device 2 via the network 7. In contrast to Form 1, it can be quickly distributed to the electronic manual browsing device 2 at a remote location.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a configuration of an electronic manual creation device 1 according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention. An electronic manual creation device 1 according to Embodiment 3 shown in FIG. 10 is obtained by adding electronic manual editing means 113 to the electronic manual creation device 1 according to Embodiment 1 shown in FIG. Other configurations are the same, and the same reference numerals are given and description thereof is omitted.

  The electronic manual editing unit 113 acquires and edits an electronic manual from the electronic manual recording unit 110. Here, the editing contents include changes in the size or quality of the video log in the electronic manual, deletion of data related to GUI operations in the operation log, screen names, input items, input button names, etc. And additional notes. Then, the electronic manual editing means 113 outputs the edited electronic manual to the electronic manual recording means 110 for recording.

  As described above, according to the third embodiment, since the electronic manual editing means 113 for editing the electronic manual is provided, the manual creator can edit the electronic manual once created by editing the electronic manual. Can be reused.

  In the third embodiment, the case where the electronic manual editing unit 113 is added to the configuration of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 2 is shown, but the same applies to the configuration of the second embodiment shown in FIG. Is possible.

  Further, within the scope of the present invention, the invention of the present application can be freely combined with each embodiment, modified with any component in each embodiment, or omitted with any component in each embodiment. .

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Electronic manual production apparatus, 2 Electronic manual browsing apparatus, 3 Recording medium, 4 Display means, 5 Operation means, 6 Display means, 7 Network, 10 Electronic manual display area, 11 Video log presentation area, 12 Operation log presentation area, 101 Time measurement means (first time measurement means), 102 GUI creation means, 103 memory, 104 operation control means, 105 video log acquisition means, 106 video log recording means, 107 operation log acquisition means, 108 operation log recording means, 109 Electronic manual creation means, 110 Electronic manual recording means, 111 Electronic manual output means, 112 Communication control means (first communication control means), 113 Electronic manual editing means, 201 Time measurement means (second time measurement means), 202 Electronic manual input means, 203 Electronic manual Al reproduction means, 204 communication control means (second communication control means).

Claims (10)

In an electronic manual creation device for creating an electronic manual for a predetermined program GUI,
A first time measuring means for creating a time signal at regular intervals;
Operation control means for creating an operation signal indicating an operation of a manual creator on the GUI screen image;
The screen image of the GUI at the first time is temporarily stored together with the first time based on the time signal created by the first time measuring means, and the operation signal created by the operation control means A memory for temporarily storing a second time when the GUI screen image is updated together with the GUI screen image updated based on
The first time temporarily stored in the memory, the screen image of the GUI at the first time, the second time, and the screen image of the GUI updated at the second time, Video log acquisition means for associating and acquiring as a video log,
An operation log acquisition means for associating the operation signal created by the operation control means with the second time and converting it into digital data and acquiring it as an operation log;
The creation and image logs acquired by the image log acquisition unit acquires the acquired operation log by the operation log acquisition unit, the first time and before Symbol electronic manual based on the second time An electronic manual creation device comprising an electronic manual creation means.   Electronic manual output means for outputting the electronic manual created by the electronic manual creation means to a recording medium
  The electronic manual creation device according to claim 1.   First communication control means for distributing the electronic manual created by the electronic manual creation means via a network is provided.
  The electronic manual creation device according to claim 1. The electronic manual creation device according to claim 1, further comprising electronic manual editing means for editing the electronic manual created by the electronic manual creation means. Before Symbol electronic manual electronic manual generation apparatus according to claim 4, comprising the electronic manual output means for outputting the recording medium the edited electronic manual by the editing means. Before Symbol electronic manual electronic manual generation apparatus according to claim 4, comprising the first communication control means for distributing through a network an edited electronic manual by the editing means. In an electronic manual browsing device that browses an electronic manual that is created for a GUI of a predetermined program and that records the time at which an operation signal indicating an operation on a screen image of the GUI is created,
A second time measuring means for generating a time signal at regular intervals;
Electronic manual playback means for converting the acquired electronic manual into a screen image at a time interval at which the operation signal is created based on the time signal created by the second time measurement means, Electronic manual browsing device to do. The electronic manual browsing device according to claim 7 , wherein the electronic manual reproducing unit acquires the electronic manual from a recording medium. Second communication control means for obtaining the electronic manual distributed via the network;
The electronic manual browsing device according to claim 7 , wherein the electronic manual reproduction unit acquires the electronic manual from the second communication control unit. In an electronic manual creation and browsing system composed of an electronic manual creation device and an electronic manual browsing device,
The electronic manual creation device includes:
In an electronic manual creation device for creating an electronic manual for a predetermined program GUI,
A first time measuring means for creating a time signal at regular intervals;
Operation control means for creating an operation signal indicating an operation of a manual creator on the GUI screen image;
The screen image of the GUI at the first time is temporarily stored together with the first time based on the time signal created by the first time measuring means, and the operation signal created by the operation control means A memory for temporarily storing a second time when the GUI screen image is updated together with the GUI screen image updated based on
The first time temporarily stored in the memory, the screen image of the GUI at the first time, the second time, and the screen image of the GUI updated at the second time, Video log acquisition means for associating and acquiring as a video log,
An operation log acquisition means for associating the operation signal created by the operation control means with the first time and converting it into digital data and acquiring it as an operation log;
The video log acquired by the video log acquisition unit and the operation log acquired by the operation log acquisition unit are acquired, and an electronic manual is created based on the first time and the second time. The electronic manual browsing device includes an electronic manual creation means.
A second time measuring means for generating a time signal at regular intervals;
Electronic manual playback means for converting the acquired electronic manual into a screen image at a time interval at which the operation signal is created based on the time signal created by the second time measurement means. Electronic manual creation browsing system.

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