JPH0981346A - Hypermedia presentation system - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Problem] To facilitate the creation and modification of a presentation story in a hypermedia presentation. SOLUTION: Media information managing means, a layout managing means for laying out a media object, which is a part of a combination of media information and information indicating its function, on a display screen of a display device to create a page, and a page A layout management means for managing the, a link management means for indicating a relationship between media objects, a story management means for creating story information indicating a display order of pages,
By providing a rule management means for managing the rules and a story changing means for dynamically changing the story according to the rules, the presentation story is created and changed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hypermedia presentation system for searching and providing necessary information from an information space composed of hypertext and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 37 is a system configuration shown in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-85087 "Hypermedia Presentation Story Automatic Creation System". According to this configuration example, when creating a story, the “story creating unit” applies the structure between materials to the tree structure based on the link information indicating the relationship between materials and creates a story. The logic for creating a story is predetermined in the "story creating section".

FIG. 38 shows a dynamic control system for video or audio presentation in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-13537.
2 is a system block diagram shown in FIG. In the program file of this system, the time intervals between successive stories in a story list for presentation, or sequences presenting stories in the list, are defined. Also, the time interval is dynamically changed by the user during the presentation via the system console. According to the changed time interval, when the interval is relatively long, the part centered on that part or the whole is indicated, and when the interval is relatively short, the short part is indicated.

Further, FIG. 39 shows MS "Power P".
It is explanatory drawing of the presentation creation software shown by "oint." According to this conventional technique, when the presentation is executed, the display order of the materials and the link relationship are set in advance, so that the presentation can be executed only in the order and the contents set here. Also, FIG.
Is a conventional technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-74769 "Multimedia Presentation System". When confirming the link relationship as a summary, pages consisting of text, graphics, images, etc. are reduced page by page, and a plurality of pages are simultaneously displayed and output.

Further, FIG. 41 shows Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1-129352.
This is the conventional technique shown in "Presentation Material Creation Device". When the material is created, the structure of the input document is automatically analyzed, and based on this, the format of the document in the material is decorated and displayed according to the document structure.

Further, FIG. 42 shows MS "Power Po".
In the prior art indicated by "int", when displaying a previously displayed drawing, a list of all screens is displayed in the list display mode, and a screen to be displayed is selected from the list.

FIG. 43 shows a conventional technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-67150 "Presentation device for accumulating and reusing user operation history in hypermedia system". According to this conventional example, the operator actually operates to record the display order and the display time interval of the material. By reusing this record, the display order and the display time interval are determined.

FIG. 44 shows "Transmission International".
This is a conventional technique indicated by "al". When setting the link, the file name is specified from all the files for which the link can be set.

[0009]

Since the conventional multimedia presentation system is configured as described above, the material display order is uniquely determined according to the preset logic of the story creating section. There was a problem that the story could not be created or changed from the link information each time.

In addition, when the operator changes the presentation content according to the length of the time interval during which the video is displayed, either the long course or the short course prepared in advance is automatically selected. However, there is a problem in that even if an important part is uniquely deleted, it is not considered.

Further, there is a problem in that the material contents can be displayed only in a preset order, and the materials cannot be rearranged as appropriate depending on the skipped display and the explanation contents. .

Further, there is a problem in that the material contents can be displayed only in a preset order, and therefore, another material can be newly read and referred to during the explanation.

Further, when displaying the relationship between all the materials, the display range is wide because the images of all the materials are displayed even if they are reduced in size. Therefore, when a certain material is displayed on the screen and explained, and at the same time the relationship of the entire material is displayed on the screen, there is a problem that the material being explained is hidden.

Further, when inputting all the documents of the whole material at once, the document structure could be analyzed at the time of inputting, but originally, the separately created materials are put together into one presentation. In the case of performing, there is a problem that the document structure cannot be analyzed and the document cannot be decorated according to the material structure.

Further, since the color of the button is determined by the attribute, there is a problem that the color once determined cannot be changed.

Further, when it is desired to return to the previously displayed screen, the list screen must be displayed at least once, which is troublesome.

Furthermore, in the case of accumulating and reusing the operation history of the user, it was possible to give a presentation again with the same contents as the user has operated so far, but another presentation is made by combining a plurality of presentation contents. When the same material is used between the two presentations when performing the presentation, it is not possible to prevent duplication of these materials, and it is not possible to change the explanation order according to the content, and the user operates again. However, there is a problem in that it is necessary to perform the operation and accumulate the history, which requires a troublesome operation.

In addition, even when a plurality of materials have a link relationship and the relationship of the materials has not changed, these link relationships must be specified again, and a file to be specified is searched for. There was a problem that it was difficult.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a presentation system capable of easily changing a story according to the situation at the time of presentation. To aim.

[0020]

A hypermedia presentation system according to a first aspect of the present invention adds a media identifier to media information including data, data size and color information, manages the data, and stores it in a storage means. And media information management means for reading and laying out on a page based on media information managed by the media information management means and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and information management regarding the laid out page Layout management means for performing the above, and link management means for retrieving or storing the structural link information by searching the own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the structure between the own page and the parent page,
Story management means for managing story data consisting of each page constituting a story and standard display time of the page and storing or reading the story data in a recording medium, a rule defining a story development method, and story development based on the rule. A rule management means for storing and managing a set of story creation programs to be executed, and a story development for executing story development by executing a story creation program corresponding to a rule, and performing storage management of the order in which the pages constituting the story are configured. And means.

The hypermedia presentation system according to the second aspect of the present invention is media information in which a media identifier is added to data and media information including data size and color information for management, and storage and reading to and from storage means are performed. Management means, and layout management means for performing layout on a page based on the media information managed by the media information management means and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and managing information about the laid out page. , Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with the own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the structure between the own page and the parent page, each page constituting the story and the page Manage story data consisting of standard display time of The story management means that stores or reads in the recording medium, the time recording means that measures the page display time up to that point at the time of page switching during the presentation and records the display time, and the display time of the page corresponding to the specified page Time to issue a story change command when searching, comparing the elapsed time from the start of the presentation and the total standard display time of the displayed pages, and determining that the standard display time of the story will be exceeded when continuing according to the planned story The management means and a plurality of shortened stories registered in advance in response to a story change command are read out, and a shortened story that finishes the story within the scheduled time is selected based on the standard display time defining each page and importance information. It is provided with a story changing means.

In the hypermedia presentation system according to the third aspect of the present invention, media information is added to the media information including data, data size and color information for management, and storage and reading to and from storage means is performed. Management means, and layout management means for performing layout on a page based on the media information managed by the media information management means and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and managing information about the laid out page. , Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with the own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the structure between the own page and the parent page, each page constituting the story and the page Manage story data consisting of standard display time of Story management means for storing or reading in a recording medium and display history information for storing the page information displayed so far on the story and searching the display history so far based on the information to retrieve the corresponding page The management means and the navigation means for receiving a story change instruction for advancing or returning the story and for changing the story based on the instruction request are provided.

In the hypermedia presentation system according to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the media information is added to the media information including the data, the data size and the color information for management, and the media information is stored in and read from the storage means. Management means, and layout management means for performing layout on a page based on the media information managed by the media information management means and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and managing information about the laid out page. , Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with the own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the structure between the own page and the parent page, each page constituting the story and the page Manage story data consisting of standard display time of A story managing means for storing or reading in a recording medium, a hierarchical keyword searching means for managing a keyword defining a parent-child relationship or a keyword consisting of a page identifier as one set of information and performing a search process based on the keyword. A page search means for repeatedly searching a page related to the keyword by issuing a search command to the hierarchical keyword search means based on the keyword, and a story for searching a story including a page ID related to the keyword from the story management means. And a changing means.

In the hypermedia presentation system according to the fifth aspect of the present invention, media information is added to the media information including the data, the data size and the color information for management, and the media information is stored in and read from the storage means. Management means, layout management means for performing layout on a page based on media information managed by the media information management means and media objects defining the dynamic function of the media information, and managing information on the laid out page , Link management means for retrieving or storing the structural link information based on structural link information defining the structure between the own page and the parent page, using the own page ID as a key, each page constituting the story and the page Manage story data consisting of standard display time of And story management means for performing storage or reading recording medium, a structure link information defining the page structure, and summary extraction means for extracting a story overall summary from the media objects in each page,
A summary display means is provided for displaying the extracted summary information in a layout on the display device based on the parent-child relationship.

In the hypermedia presentation system according to the sixth aspect of the present invention, the media information is added to the media information including the data, the data size and the color information for management, and the media information is stored in and read from the storage means. Management means, and layout management means for performing layout on a page based on the media information managed by the media information management means and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and managing information about the laid out page. , Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with the own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the structure between the own page and the parent page, each page constituting the story and the page Manage story data consisting of standard display time of A story management means that stores or reads in a recording medium, and a numbering information creation means that analyzes the configuration information of links between pages and determines the assigned numbering system for each page based on the link configuration between pages. , And decoration means for laying out or changing the format based on the numbering information.

In the hypermedia presentation system according to the seventh aspect of the present invention, media information is added to the media information including data, data size and color information for management, and the media information is stored in and read from the storage means. Management means, layout management means for performing layout on a page based on media information managed by the media information management means and media objects defining the dynamic function of the media information, and managing information on the laid out page , Link management means for retrieving or storing the structural link information based on structural link information defining the structure between the own page and the parent page, using the own page ID as a key, each page constituting the story and the page Manage story data consisting of standard display time of Associated with the story management means for storing or reading in the recording medium, the display history accumulating means for storing the pages displayed so far through the presentation as the display history information, and the media objects forming the page when the page is displayed. It is provided with an emphasis processing means for judging whether or not the page has already been displayed on the basis of the display history information and, if it has already been displayed, for emphasizing the media object.

In the hypermedia presentation system according to the eighth aspect of the present invention, media information is added to the media information including data, data size and color information for management, and storage and reading to / from storage means is performed. Management means, and layout management means for performing layout on a page based on the media information managed by the media information management means and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and managing information about the laid out page. , Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with the own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the structure between the own page and the parent page, each page constituting the story and the page Manage story data consisting of standard display time of A story managing means for storing or reading in a recording medium, and a bookmark managing means for recording and managing a page ID and a bookmark comment as one set in response to an instruction to insert a bookmark for a page being displayed during presentation. Includes bookmark list display means for displaying a list of bookmarks recorded during the presentation, and bookmark-corresponding display means for retrieving a specified bookmark record from the bookmark list and displaying the page in which the bookmark is sandwiched. It was done like this.

In the hypermedia presentation system according to the ninth aspect of the present invention, media information is added to the media information including data, data size and color information for management, and the media information is stored in and read from the storage means. Management means, and layout management means for performing layout on a page based on the media information managed by the media information management means and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and managing information about the laid out page. , Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with the own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the structure between the own page and the parent page, each page constituting the story and the page Manage story data consisting of standard display time of A story management unit that stores or reads in a recording medium, and a story that creates and displays a story composition plan by focusing on the pages common to each story in the pages that make up each story when multiple story compositions are specified. The present invention is provided with a combination plan creating / displaying unit and a story combining unit for storing and managing one story selected for the displayed story combination plan as a confirmed story.

In the hypermedia presentation system according to the tenth aspect of the invention, media information is added to the media information including the data, the data size and the color information for management, and the media information is stored in and read from the storage means. Management means, and layout management means for performing layout on a page based on the media information managed by the media information management means and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and managing information about the laid out page. , Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with the own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the structure between the own page and the parent page, each page constituting the story and the page The story data consisting of the standard display time of And a link for searching a page and a media object related to a page being displayed or a media object laid out on the page based on the previously created structural link information. Structural link information is created by searching means, link candidate display means for displaying a list of searched pages or media objects as link destination candidates, and selecting a link destination page or media object from the list of link destination candidates. And a candidate selection linking means.

[0030]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Before describing the embodiments of the present invention, various data commonly used in the embodiments will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 10. Figure 1 shows the structure of media information.
The media ID is attached to the media information including the image size, the number of colors used, and the data to be displayed. FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the media object, in which the media object ID is attached to the media information and its type, the application program name for display output, and other output parameters. FIG. 3 is a view showing page information. The ID of the media object displayed on the page and the display position information on the page are used as a pair of information, and the information of this pair is held by the number of media objects constituting the page. With a page ID. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the structural link information. The depth of the hierarchy when the relationship between pages is arranged in a hierarchical manner, with the start page at the beginning for each page, and the ID of the parent page referencing the own page or It is composed of a parent media object ID and its own page ID. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the structure of story information, which is composed of information that defines the page ID and its standard explanation time in the order of display, and the story ID is added to this. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing importance information. As shown, there are two types of defining methods. That is, one represents absolute importance and is composed of information that is a combination of a page ID and an importance variable from 1 to 1000. In this case, the higher the variable value, the higher the importance. The other defining method is to relatively define importance information, and describes two pages and defines which page is important. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing hierarchical keyword information, in which the relevance of any one of a keyword and a keyword, a keyword and a page ID, or a page ID and a keyword is described. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing display history information, in which page IDs are added in the order displayed by the operator,
A history ID is added to this. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing bookmark information. When the operator has a plurality of pages sandwiching the bookmark, a plurality of page ID information of the pages sandwiching the bookmark are recorded, and the bookmark ID is added to the page ID information. .
FIG. 10 is a diagram showing time information, in which the page ID of the page operated and displayed by the operator and the display time of the page are recorded, and at which time the operation is recorded can be identified. It has a time ID for it.

Here, a supplementary description will be given of the above-mentioned media object and page. The media object may be image data such as a bitmap, moving image data such as an AVI format file, or sequence data such as voice or machine control, as long as it can be converted into an electronic data. In this case, The expression means is slightly different depending on the media, and for example, in the case of voice data, a voice is generated. Also page data,
Any combination of media objects that can be electronically converted into data as described above may be used. Furthermore, the page data does not necessarily have to be a set of media objects, but may be the bitmap data itself. That is, in this case, as will be described later, the bitmap data created by the application program on the other system may be managed by the media information management means, and the layout means may be set so that the bitmap data directly constitutes a page.

Next, various management means commonly used throughout the embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the overall configuration diagram of FIG. First, the link management means 8 is shown in FIG.
The means for reading or writing the structural link information shown in (1) to or from the storage medium reads or writes the structural link information or its parent or child structural link information using the page ID of the user as a key. When searching for a parent of certain structural link information, the search is performed based on the parent page ID included in the structural link information. Also, when searching for a child of a certain structural link information, the page ID of oneself is set to the parent page I.
The structural link information held as D is retrieved and searched. Next, the layout management means 5 records the page information shown in FIG. 3 in the storage medium, using the page ID as a key, the media object ID in the page and the layout position,
Or it is a means of taking out. Next, the media information management means 3 sets the media information as shown in FIG.
Is used as a key to write or read the size of image data, which is the media information, the number of colors used, and the raster data to or from the storage medium. Further, at the same time, the media information management means 3 manages the media object as shown in FIG. 2 by using the media object ID as a key, the data identifier, the media ID of the media information, the application program name for display output, and the screen The process of writing or reading the display position of or the output parameter to or from the recording medium is performed. The story management means 10 is means for managing story data as shown in FIG. 5 using the story ID as a key, and records the order of page IDs included in the story and the standard display time of each page on a recording medium. , Or read.

Next, a method of creating a screen layout page commonly used through the embodiments of the present invention by the layout means 4 will be described with reference to FIG. A blank page is displayed on the display device 1 by the page display unit. The operator gives a command and instruction by operating the mouse while looking at the screen using the mouse, keyboard or the like which is the input device 2. As a result, when a page size or color change command is input, the page size and color information is transmitted to the layout means 4, and the layout means 4 sends this information to the display device 1 to generate a new color and size. The page is displayed with. In addition, the media object ID is the keyboard 2
When the input is made from, and the placement position on the page is clicked with the mouse, the media object ID is sent to the media information management means 3. The media information management means 3 takes out data such as image data based on the media object ID and sends it to the display means 1. The display means 1 displays the data sent from the media information management means 3 at the location. When the operator finally gives an instruction to confirm the operation by operating the mouse, the layout position information (FIGS. 2 and 3) indicating the media object ID and the arrangement location is sent to the layout management means 5 and recorded as page information.

Next, the operation of the structural link in the structural link setting means 7 commonly used throughout the embodiments of the present invention will be described. Two pages I from input device 2
When D is input, the ID is transmitted to the layout management means 5. The layout management means 5 retrieves the ID and the location of the media object to be placed on each page, and sends it to the display device 1 and the media information management means 3. In the media information management means 3, the media object ID
The image data corresponding to is retrieved and sent to the display means 1. The display unit 1 displays the pages corresponding to the two page IDs and displays the image data at the layout position. In this state, one page is clicked by operating the mouse of the input means 2, then the other page is clicked, and then the key input indicating the link registration is performed.
Two page IDs, information as to which was pushed first, and information as link registration are sent to the link management means 8. The link management means 8 registers the page ID of the previously pressed page as a parent and the page ID pressed later as a child as structural link information.

Next, the story creation by the story creating means 9 commonly used in the respective embodiments of the present invention will be described. When the page ID and the display time of the page are input from the input means 2 via the keyboard,
Such information is sent to the story creating means 9. The story creating means 9 records the sent page ID and display time in the recording means in order.

Next, a basic presentation operation common to the embodiments of the present invention will be described.
There are two methods of giving a presentation, a method of using a story and a method of not using a story. First, the case of using a story will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 12, the story I of the story is input from the input device 2.
When D is designated, the story ID is sent to the story management means 10. The story management means 10 stores therein a variable indicating how many pages are currently displayed, and when the variable name is i, i is set to 1 and the ID of the page to be displayed first is read out and laid out. Send to the management means 5. The layout management means 5 uses the page ID to identify the I of the media object included in the corresponding page.
D and the layout position are taken out and sent to the media information management means 3. The media information management means 3 reads media information such as image data based on the ID of the media object and sends it to the page display section together with the layout position. The page display section displays the page. When the operator gives an instruction to turn the page through the input device 2 while the page is displayed, the content of the instruction is sent to the story management means 10. The story management means 10 adds 1 to the content of the variable i to search the ID of the i-th page in the story. Exit after displaying all pages.

Next, the procedure when the story is not used will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in the figure,
When the page ID is designated from the input device 2, the layout management means 5 extracts the ID and layout position of the media object included in the corresponding page based on the page ID and sends them to the media information management means 3. The media information management means 3 reads out media information such as image data based on the ID of the media object, and sends it to the page display section together with the layout position. The page display section displays the page. Next, when the operator designates the media object on the page through the input device 2 in the layout management means 5, the media object ID is sent to the link management means 8, and the link management means 8 displays it next by the structural link information. The page ID to be searched is searched and the ID is sent to the layout management means 5. Hereinafter, the same process is repeated.

Embodiment 1. A method of creating a presentation story will be described with reference to FIGS. 14 and 15 for the first embodiment of the present invention. Reference numeral 11 denotes a rule setting means, which sets the rule name input and the story creation program name corresponding to the rule name to 1
It is managed as a group. Reference numeral 12 is a rule management means, which writes or reads the rule name and the story creation program in the recording medium. Further, if all the rule names are taken out, or if an instruction to take out the story making program corresponding to the rule name is given, the story making program corresponding to the rule name is taken out. Thirteen
Is a rule-based story changing means, which executes a story creation program corresponding to the rule name and stores the resulting page creation order in a recording medium via the story management means.

Next, the operation will be described. Display means 1
When the operator selects the content of the rule displayed above, the name of the selected rule (for example, rule a) is transmitted from the rule setting means 11 to the rule management means 12. The rule management means 12 sends the story creating program corresponding to the selected rule to the rule-based story changing means 13. The rule-based story changing means 13 sequentially executes the story creation program corresponding to the selected rule to determine the story. And
The decided story is transmitted to the story management means 10, and the story management means 10 records this. Here, the operation of the story creating program will be described in the case where the rule selected for changing the story is the “one-stroke writing rule”. According to the one-stroke writing rule, as shown in the upper right of FIG. 15, there is a page named “B” under the page named “A”, and “C”, “D”, “G” under the page. There is a page, and there is a page called "E" under "D".
It is assumed that there is a link relation of pages composed of pages “F” under “E.” At this time, in the rule-based story changing means 13, the operation of the story creating program according to the “one-stroke writing rule” is started. Then, an instruction to search from the top page is transmitted to the link information management means 8. At the link information management means 8,
Data having no parent is taken out as the top data, and the page ID of the data is returned. In the rule-based story changing means 13, the page “A” is set as the value of the position variable which is an internal variable of the means, and the hierarchy variable is “1”.
, And the content of the confirmed child variable as “none”, and the first of the story is page “A”. next,
The following operation 1 is executed. (1) Operation 1 The link information management unit 8 is inquired about what is the child page of the page ID which is the position variable.
The link information management means 8 has already been described as an operation common to the respective embodiments of the present invention, and therefore will be omitted here. The rule-based story changing means 13 obtains the page ID from the link information managing means 8. From this, one of the page IDs not recorded in the confirmed child variables is taken out, set as the value of the position variable, and then set as the hierarchical variable.
1 ”is added, the page ID set as a position variable is added to the contents of the confirmed child variable, and this page I is added to the story.
D is added (the above is the end of operation 1). (2) When the above operation 1 is repeated up to the leaf of the tree,
The story becomes A → B → C, the position variable is “C”, the hierarchy variable is “3”, and the confirmed child variable is “B” “C”.
Here, if the operation 1 is to be repeated next time, the child ID of the page "C" cannot be acquired. If there is no child page of the position variable, or if the child page of the position variable is already registered in the confirmed child variable, the following operation (operation 2) is executed. (3) Operation 2 The link information management means 8 is queried to acquire the page ID of its own parent, and this is set in the position variable. Subtract 1 from the hierarchy variable. Add the position variable set in the story (end of operation 2). (4) As described above, first, the operation 1 is repeatedly executed, and when the operation is stopped, the operation 2 is executed. In this way, in the case of the link relationship as shown in the upper right of FIG. 15, each page can be traced with a single stroke "AB
Stories are created in the order of “CBDEFEDBG”.

Embodiment 2 Next, a method of changing the presentation story of the second embodiment of the present invention will be described based on FIGS. 16 and 17. Reference numeral 14 denotes an importance level setting means, which sets the input page ID and the importance level information as a set and sets the importance level for each page. Further, in response to an inquiry about which of the two input pages is more important, the result is stored in the recording medium via the importance managing means. Reference numeral 15 is an importance degree management means, which stores and retrieves importance degree information,
Further, the page ID is received to search the degree of importance, or which of the two received page IDs is important is searched and the result is returned. Reference numeral 16 is a time recording means for recording the time when a page is displayed, which receives a page ID at the time of page switching during a presentation, measures the display time until the next page switching is performed, and the page that has been displayed until then. Page ID and display time of 1
The sets are stored in the recording medium via the time management means.
Reference numeral 17 is a time management means, which stores the sent recording medium as a set of page ID and display time. In addition, when the display time of the page corresponding to the page ID is searched, or the total elapsed time from the start of the presentation and the standard display time of the already displayed page are compared to continue the presentation according to the predetermined story. When it is determined that the standard display time of the story will be exceeded, the story change means based on the importance and time is notified. Reference numeral 18 is a story changing means based on importance and time, which reads a plurality of pre-registered short stories from the story management means, and based on the standard display time and the importance of each page included therein, From the most important, select a shortened story that will end the story within the scheduled end time when displayed on the standard time.

Next, the operation will be described. The time management means 17 sends a time inquiry command to the story management means 10 at the start of the presentation. At this time, the story management unit 10 sends the time management unit 17 together with the page ID included in the story and its standard display time. The time management means 17 records the total standard display time of all pages included in the story as a total time variable. When the presentation is executed, the layout management unit 5 shown in FIG. 12 or 13 is used.
The page ID is sent from the layout managing means of FIG. 17 to the time recording means 16 at the timing of displaying the page. The time recording means 16 records the page ID and the previous actual display time based on this. Using this information, the time management means 17 obtains the elapsed time from the start of the presentation to the present time, compares the total of the standard display times of the already displayed pages, and compares the elapsed time with the standard display time of the already displayed pages. A predetermined rate (eg 1.
3 times), or when it exceeds a predetermined time (for example, 3 minutes), or when the operator issues an instruction to shorten the time via the input device 2, etc., based on the importance and time. The story changing means 18 is notified that there is no time. The content of the notification is the page ID currently displayed,
A variable i indicating which page in the story is displayed, a remaining time obtained by subtracting the elapsed time from the total time variable, and the like. If the operator's instruction is given, send the instruction as to how many minutes later it is desired to finish. The story changing unit 18 based on the importance and time sends the story ID of the currently displayed story and a code for wanting a reduced version to the story managing unit 10. The story management means 10 searches for a reduced version of the story ID. The reduced version of the story can be searched by processing the story ID in a predetermined way, such as adding a predetermined alphabetic character string to the rightmost side of the story ID character string of the story before being reduced. Keep it. In the story management means 10, after searching a plurality of reduced-sized stories, the importance management means 15 searches the importance of all the pages included in the story, and the story change means 1 based on the importance and time is searched for together.
Send to 8. Here, it is assumed that there are two reduced version stories and they are called S1 and S2. The story changing means 18 based on the importance and time reads the contents of S1 and S2 from the beginning, and if there is a page already displayed, deletes it. The reduced version stories consisting of the remaining pages are S1A and S2A. It is assumed that the total standard display time of pages included in S1A is T1, and the total standard display time of pages included in S2A is T2. Also, S1A
Let J1 be the total importance of the pages included in S2A and J2 be the total importance of the pages included in S2A. Where J
If 1> J2 and T1 is within the remaining time, S1
Let A be the continuation of the story. If J1> J2 and T1 exceeds the remaining time, S2A is set as the continuation of the story. When the continuation of the story is, for example, S1A, the story changing unit 18 based on the importance and time sends the code indicating the story change, the page ID included in S1A, and the standard display time to the story managing unit 10. The story management means 10 stores the received data in a storage medium, and thereafter continues the presentation in the procedure shown in FIG.

Embodiment 3. A story changing method according to the third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 18 and 19. Reference numeral 19 denotes a display history accumulating means, which stores the page ID of the page displayed so far in the recording medium via the display history managing means. Reference numeral 20 denotes a display history information management means, which writes the page ID in the recording medium, searches the past display history in response to a request from other means, and returns the corresponding page ID. Reference numeral 21 denotes a navigation means which gives an instruction to change the story to the story management means in response to an instruction such as advancing a story or returning N stories.

Next, the operation will be described. It is assumed that the presentation has already proceeded as described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 19, when displaying a page, the layout management unit 5 changes the display history storage unit 19
The page ID is sent to. Display history storage means 19
Then, the sent pages are sequentially stored in the recording medium. When an operator gives an instruction for navigation via the input means 2 while displaying a page, the layout management means 5 sends an instruction code of the content to the navigation means 21. Navigation instruction codes are "return history", "forward history", "skip history N sheets",
Contents such as "return story", "advance story", and "skip N stories" are indicated by alphabetic character strings. In the case of an instruction code for skipping N sheets of story or history, a numerical value indicating N sheets is added as a character string to the end of the character string of the instruction code. In the navigation means 21, "return history", "advance history", "skip history N sheets", "return story",
A page to be displayed next is determined according to an instruction such as “advance story” or “skip N stories”, and the page ID is transmitted to the layout management means 5. Then
The layout management means 5 displays the page by the method already shown in FIGS. Next, an example of a method of determining the display page corresponding to each of the instruction regarding the story and the instruction regarding the history in the navigation means 21 will be shown below. First, an example of a story will be described. When the navigation means 21 receives an instruction to "return story", it sends an instruction code "return story" to the story management means.
As shown in FIG. 12, in the story management means 10,
A variable indicating how many pages are displayed is stored inside, and the value is manipulated with the variable name being i. In this case, 1 is subtracted, and when the 5th page is initially displayed on the story, the value of i is changed from 5 to 4. After that, the story management means 10 reads the page ID of the i-th page from the story information and returns the page ID to the navigation means 21. Next, an example of history is shown. With the navigation means 21,
When receiving an instruction to "return N history", this instruction is sent to the display history management unit 20. Display history management unit 2
At 0, the page IDs are stored in the order of display, so the page ID displayed N sheets before is taken out and sent to the navigation means 21.

Fourth Embodiment Next, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. Two
Reference numeral 2 denotes a hierarchical keyword creating means, which stores two input free keywords as a set in a recording medium via the hierarchical keyword managing means. Reference numeral 23 denotes a hierarchical keyword management means, which stores two keywords, a keyword and a page ID, or a page ID and a page ID, in a recording medium, and receives a search request based on the keyword or the page ID. To retrieve related information and return results. Reference numeral 24 is a page search means, which sends a search command to the hierarchical keyword management means based on one keyword to search the page related to the keyword. At this time, the page ID of the related page is searched by performing a search using a fuzzy formula, such as a page searched based on the first keyword or a page searched based on the keyword included in the search result page. Reference numeral 25 is a story changing means based on a hierarchical keyword, and searches the story managing means 10 for a story including a page ID related to the keyword.

Next, the operation will be described. As shown in FIG. 21, when the operator inputs a keyword as a keyword search instruction while the page is displayed, the layout management unit 5
From, the keyword is sent to the page search means 24. The page search means 24 searches the hierarchical keyword management means 23 for a page ID based on the keyword. next,
A method of searching a page by keywords will be described. In the page search means 24, when the designated keyword is, for example, the character string "car", an inquiry is sent to the hierarchical keyword management means 23, and the parent keyword or , Search for a child keyword "car".
For example, assume that one item is found. At this time, it is assumed that the parent keyword is “car” and the child keyword is “tire”. In this case, next, a hierarchical keyword in which the parent keyword or the child keyword is "tire" is searched. By repeating this search execution by tracing the relevance, it is possible to search for one of the parent keyword and the child keyword that has the page ID, and this page ID becomes the final search result. The page ID searched by the page searching means 24 is sent to the story changing means 25 based on the hierarchical keyword. Here, the story ID of the story including the page ID from the story managing means 10.
Is searched. When the story ID is found, the story changing means 25 based on the hierarchical keyword sends the story ID to the page reading means 26. The page reading means 26 reads each page ID of the story indicated by the story ID and the standard display time from the story managing means 10, checks the stories in the display order, and the page ID searched by the page searching means 24 appears first. The story behind the part is sent to the layout management means 5 as a new story. The layout management means 5 gives a presentation from the continuation of the story as already shown in FIG.

Embodiment 5 FIG. Next, a fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described based on FIGS. 22 to 24. Reference numeral 27 is a summary extracting means, and the page IDs of the pages included in the specified story are stored in the story managing means 1
Called from 0, the ID of the media object on the page is called from the layout management means 5 based on the page ID, then the media object on the page is taken out from the media information management means 3 based on the ID of the media object, and the layout position is changed. The title of the page is estimated and stored on the recording medium as a summary. Reference numeral 28 is a summary display means for displaying a summary of each page in a layout so that the parent-child relationship can be understood.

Next, the operation will be described. As shown in FIG. 23, when the operator gives an instruction to display a summary via the input means 2, the instruction is transmitted to the layout management means 5.
Since the layout management means 5 has the page ID being displayed, the layout management means 5 sends this ID and a code indicating a summary display instruction to the summary extraction means 27. Summary extraction means 2
In 7, the page ID used as the search key inside has already been searched I
It is recorded as D and the page ID is passed to the link management means 8 to request a link relation search. As shown in FIG. 24,
In the link management means 8, the page ID is selected from the link information.
Search for those containing "E" and assume that this hierarchy is 2. Also, the page ID of the page that is the parent of E is "
Page IDs "A" and child of "E" are "F" and "G"
Suppose At this time, "A", "E", "
The respective layers of F "and" G "are" 1 "," 2 ","
3 ”,“ 3 ”. Each page ID, hierarchy, and parent ID of the page ID are returned from the link management unit 8 to the summary extraction unit 27. The summary extraction unit 27 receives the page ID from the link management unit 8. , Hierarchy, parent page I
Record D as the search result. Next, a page ID that is not recorded in the searched ID is extracted from the page IDs included in the search results, and this page ID is passed to the link management means 8 to request a link-related search. This is repeated until all the page IDs included in the search result are included in the searched IDs. Next, the summary extraction means 27 extracts a summary for all page IDs included in the search result. The summary is extracted as follows. The summary extracting means 27 sends a page ID and a code indicating that the request is a media object search request to the layout managing means 5. The layout management means 5 extracts the ID of the media object laid out in the page ID and its layout position based on the page ID. Next, the contents of the media object are extracted from the media object information using each media object ID as a key, and the contents and layout position of the media object are returned to the summary extracting means 27. The summary extracting means 27 records the media object whose content is a character string, the layout position of which is at the upper left, together with the page ID already recorded as a summary by the search result of the page. By repeating this, the summary of all pages is extracted and recorded. Summary extraction means 2
The page ID as the search result, the summary of each page, the hierarchy, and the ID of the parent page of the page are sent from 7 to the summary display means 28. The summary display means 28 displays the summary of "A" on the top of the screen through the display means, if the page with the lowest hierarchy is "A". The horizontal position is displayed with the position shifted to the right by the number of characters that is obtained by subtracting 1 from the number of layers of "." Next, the pages that have that page as their parent are "B", "D", "E" Then, one of them, for example, a summary of B is displayed underneath in the same manner by adjusting the left and right positions. Next, if a page having "B" as a parent is "C", "B" is displayed. In the same way as
A summary of “C” is displayed below “B.” Repeating this, in the case of the page configuration shown in FIG. 24, “A”, “
I get stuck when I display "B", and when I display the summary of the leaf "C". Here, "C" is the leaf and there is no page whose parent is this, so "B" is the parent of "C". ”
Pay attention to, select the page that has the same parent as the parent of "B", and the summary is not displayed yet, and select the summary.
It is displayed below the summary of A ”,“ B ”, and“ C. ”By repeating this process, the link relation between pages is displayed as a tree structure using the summary of pages.

Embodiment 6 FIG. Next, a sixth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. Reference numeral 29 is a numbering information creating means, which takes out the page ID included in the story of the specified story ID from the story managing means, and searches the link relationship between pages via the link information managing means based on this page ID. . The numbering information of the page to be displayed first is 1, the child numbering information of the page is 1-1, 1-2, ..., And the numbering information of the child page of 1-1 is 1-1- 1, 1-1
-2, put numbering information on all pages,
The page ID and a set are stored in the recording medium. The decorating means 30 searches the numbering information based on the page ID, sends the search result to the layout managing means, and lays out the numbering information in the empty portion of the page.

Next, the operation will be described. FIG. 26 (a)
As described above, when the operator inputs the story ID and instructs the numbering while creating the story using the story creating means 9, the story ID and the code indicating the numbering instruction are
Notify the numbering information creating means 29. Numbering information creating means 29
Sends the story ID and a code indicating a page search request to the story management means 10. Story management means 1
In 0, all the page IDs included in the story are searched and the searched page ID is returned to the numbering information creating means 29. The numbering information creation means 29 sends to the link management means 8 a code indicating that all page IDs and links are to be searched. The link management means 8 searches the hierarchy of all pages and the IDs of the parent page from the structural link information using the page ID as a key, and uses this information as the numbering information creation means 29.
Return to. According to this, the numbering information creating means 29 creates the numbering information to be attached to the page. Here, the hierarchy is "1"
If the page ID of the page is "A", the page ID "
The numbering information of "1" is recorded in association with "A". Next, the page ID of the hierarchy having "A" as a parent and "2" is received from the link management means 8 and the parent page I.
Search from combination data of D and hierarchy. As a search result, for example, the layer is “2” and the page ID is “B”, ”
It is assumed that three pages D "and" E "can be searched. In the numbering information creating means 29," B "is 1.1 and" D "is 1.
2, "E" is assigned a number of 1.3, and those page IDs and numbering information are combined and recorded. next,"
B "," D ", and" E "are recorded under the name of child information unsearched page ID, and thereafter, the process shown in" operation A "is not recorded as the child information unsearched page ID. (Operation A) One page ID is extracted from the child information unsearched page IDs and deleted from the child information unsearched page IDs. It is assumed that this is “B.” Next, this “B” is selected. Since it is already numbered, the adoption number information of B is taken out. This is 1.1. Next, the page ID having "B" as a parent is searched. For example, if there is a page ID "C",
The numbering information 1.1 of B "and the number" 1 "added to 1.1.1 is the numbering information of" C ". However, 1.1.1 is already in the numbering information. If it exists, the number is increased by adding 2, 3, ... instead of adding "1" and the value 1.1.2, 1.1.3, ~ is used as the numbering information. The page ID “C” and numbering information are paired,
It is recorded and "C" is recorded as the child information unsearched page ID (the operation A is completed). By repeating the process of "operation A" as described above, the numbering information is added to all page IDs included in the specified story. Next, the numbering information creation means 29 sends all the page IDs and the numbering information corresponding thereto to the decoration means 30. Decoration means 30
Then, decoration processing is performed on all page IDs. The decoration process for the page ID “B” will be described below. The decorating means 30 requests the layout managing means 5 to retrieve the layout information of the page ID “B”. The layout management means 5 searches for the media object and its layout position based on the page ID “B” and returns it to the decoration means 30. As shown in FIG. 27, the decorating means 30 confirms the layout position of the media object of “B”, determines the portion with the closest layout in the upper left position as the numbering layout position, and determines the page ID and the page number. The number layout position information and the numbering information are sent together to the layout management means 5. In the layout management means 5, the media information management means 3 uses the numbering information as a media object in the form of a character string.
Send to The media information management means 3 records the numbering information as a media object in the form of a character string, and returns the media object ID to the layout management means 5. The layout management means 5 records the media object ID together with the numbering layout position. This process is configured to automatically send a numbering instruction to the numbering information creating means when the layout management means displays a page, in addition to the numbering instruction of the operator who is creating the story. By setting it, the number may be automatically assigned during the presentation.

Embodiment 7 FIG. Next, a seventh embodiment of the present invention will be described based on FIGS. 28 and 29. 1
Reference numeral 9 denotes a display history accumulating means for storing the ID of the display page sent from the layout managing means at the time of switching the display, in the recording medium via the display history managing means. Reference numeral 31 is an emphasis processing means, which searches for a media object ID forming a page based on the ID of the display page passed from the layout management means 5. Then, the page ID of the page displayed so far is searched, and the media object related to the page ID is searched for via the link information management means 8 based on this page ID. If the same ID as this media object is on the newly displayed page, the media object ID is transformed and displayed.

Next, the operation will be described. First, Fig. 1
In the operation explanation of the presentation in the common basic operation No. 3, when the operator selects a media object represented by the shape of a button or the like on the page being displayed using the input means 2 such as a mouse, the page of the related page is displayed. It has been shown that the ID is retrieved from the link management means 8 and displayed. In the present embodiment, at the same time, when the operator gives an instruction to the display history accumulating means 19 from the layout managing means 5, the ID of the page being displayed and the ID of the media object instructed by the operator. Is sent to the display history information management means 20 and is recorded. The operation of the presentation not using the story is as already shown in FIG. 13, but when another page linked to a certain page is displayed according to the instruction of the operator, the page ID of the page to be displayed is determined by the layout management means 5. Reads. Using the ID of the displayed page as a key, the media object on the page and its layout position are extracted from the layout information. The layout management unit 5 transmits the page ID and the media object ID to the media information management unit 3, and the media information management unit 3 sends the page ID and the media object ID to the emphasis processing unit 31. The emphasis processing means 31 sends the page ID and the media object ID to the display history information management means 20. Since the display history information management unit 20 records the information displayed in the past as a combination of the page ID and the media object ID, if it has been displayed in the past, the information of the page ID and the media object is displayed. It returns to the emphasis processing means 31. The emphasis processing means 31 sends to the media information management means 3 the IDs of media objects that have been displayed in the past. The media information management means 3 extracts actual display data based on the ID of the media object and sends it to the emphasis processing means 31.
In the emphasis processing means 31, the actual display information sent from the media information management means 3 is processed so as to appear emphasized. Here, a processing example for highlighting will be described. In the case of a character string, it is converted into bold type, and in the case of bitmap data indicating a button, the color is darkened. The media object subjected to the emphasis process is sent to the media information management means 3. The media information management means arranges and displays a highlighted media object that has been selected in the past and a media object that has not been selected in the past and has not been processed in the layout position. Further, the emphasis processing unit 31 may emphasize not only the media object that has been instructed but the following media objects as the emphasis target. For example, when there is a history of displaying the page "A", if the operator designates a media object, a structural link is searched, and all the media objects for which the page "A" is displayed are targeted. Good.

Embodiment 8 FIG. Next, an eighth embodiment of the present invention will be described based on FIGS. 30 and 31.
Reference numeral 32 denotes a bookmark recording means, which receives a bookmark registration command during page display and a bookmark comment to display a page ID.
A bookmark comment is made into one set and stored in a recording medium via the bookmark management means. 33 is a bookmark management means,
A page ID and a comment of a bookmark are set as a set and stored in or taken out from the recording medium. Reference numeral 34 is a bookmark list display means for extracting and displaying the page ID registered as a bookmark and the corresponding comment from the recording medium. Reference numeral 35 is a bookmark-corresponding display means, which sends the page ID of the designated bookmark to the layout management means for display.

Next, the operation will be described. As shown in FIG. 31, when the operator designates to record a bookmark while displaying a page, the layout management unit 5 sends the page ID to the bookmark recording unit 32. The bookmark recording unit 32 records the page ID on the recording medium via the bookmark management unit 33. At this time, if the operator has input a character string as a comment other than the instruction for bookmark registration, this is also recorded. When the operator displays a page and wants to see the page with the bookmark in between during the presentation or after the presentation, the bookmark list display means 34 is provided by instructing the bookmark selection through the input means 2.
Instructions for displaying bookmarks are transmitted. Bookmark list display means 34
Then, the instruction indicating the search request is sent to the bookmark management unit 33. The bookmark management unit 33 takes out the page IDs recorded as bookmarks and their comments in the order in which the bookmarks are registered, and sends them to the bookmark list display unit 34. The bookmark list display means 34 displays bookmark IDs and comments in the order of registration on the display unit. When the operator inputs and selects the ID of the page to be viewed through the input means, the page ID is sent to the bookmark correspondence display means 35. The bookmark correspondence display means 35 displays the page as follows. Each page ID is sent from the bookmark correspondence display unit 35 to the layout management unit 5, and the layout management unit 5 searches for the ID of the media object on the page and its layout position based on the page ID. The ID of the media object is transmitted from the layout management means 5 to the media information management means 3, and the media object is taken out based on the media object ID and displayed. At the time of displaying the bookmark list, the actual page corresponding to the bookmark ID may be reduced and displayed simultaneously with the bookmark list. When displaying the reduced page, the bookmark list display means 34 sends the ID of the page list with bookmarks to the layout management means 5. The subsequent process is the same as the process of displaying a page.

Embodiment 9 FIG. Next, a ninth embodiment of the invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 32 to 34. 36 is when the composition of multiple stories is specified,
It is a story composition plan creation and display means for creating a story composition plan by paying attention to a page common to pages constituting each story. Reference numeral 37 is a story selection display means for displaying a story composition plan, and 38 is a story composition means for sending one story selected for the displayed story composition plan as a confirmed story to the story management means.

Next, the operation will be described. As shown in FIG. 33, the operator has story IDs “1” and “2”.
When an instruction to synthesize the two story IDs based on the story ID “1” is issued, these two story IDs are sent to the story synthesis plan creating means 36.
The story composition plan creating means 36 sends the story ID to the story managing means 10. The story management means reads the IDs of all the pages included in the story using the story ID as a key, and returns them to the story composition plan creating means 36 together with the display order. The story synthesizing means 36 sends the page ID to the link managing means 8. In the link management means 8, the page ID of the parent of the page ID,
The child page ID is retrieved and returned to the story synthesizing means 36. As an example, the page ID included in the story ID “1” is ABCDEFG as shown in the upper left of FIG. 34, and the children of “A” are “B” and “D” and the children of “B” are “A”.
The children of C "and" D "are" E "and the children of" E "are" F "and"
G ”, the page included in story ID“ 2 ”is abEcd, and its structure is that the child of“ a ”is“ b ”.
And "E" and "d", the child of "E" is assumed to be "c". In the story synthesizing means 36, the story ID "
The page IDs included in 1 ”and“ 2 ”are searched for the same page ID. In this example, the page ID“ E ”corresponds. The method for creating a story composition plan will be described below.
In the case of composition plan 1 in which layers equal to or lower than the common page are combined, in story ID “2”, “b” and “d” that have the same parent as “E” and the same parent as “E” are story IDs ”. It is attached under "D" which is the parent of "E" in 1 ". Next, in the case of the synthesis plan 2 in which the lower layer equivalent to the common page is synthesized, the child page of the page "E" having the story ID "2" is added below the page "E" having the story ID "1". The story plan is the story selection display means 37.
Sent to each and displayed. When the operator selects one of the composite plan 1 and the composite plan 2 stories, the selected story is sent to the story composition means 38, and the story composition means 38 assigns a story ID to the story management means 10. Stored. When the story selection display means 37 displays the story plan, the relationship of the structural links may be displayed in a tree structure, or the structure link relationship of the two stories before the combination may be displayed in a tree structure. In the story selection display means 37, the page
It may be displayed by displaying a character string such as a name assigned to D or a page ID, or an image of a page corresponding to the page ID or a reduced version thereof. Further, the story may be automatically synthesized without the operator making a selection by previously designating the link synthesizing method and the story creating method.

Embodiment 10 FIG. Next, a tenth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. Reference numeral 39 is a link search means, which is a media object ID that has been previously linked to this page based on the page ID to be linked from the link management means when creating link information between a certain page and another page. And page ID. Further, based on the media object ID, the page in which the media object existed is searched from the media information management means 3 to obtain the page ID. Reference numeral 40 denotes a link candidate display means, which is based on the page IDs linked in the past, from the layout management means 5 to the media object I on the page.
41 is a candidate selection linking unit that retrieves D, retrieves media information from the media information managing unit 3, and displays each page via the link information managing unit 8 with the page ID of the page to be linked with the page ID. And stores it as link information in the recording medium.

Next, the operation will be described. As shown in FIG. 36, when the operator issues an instruction to create a link for a page, the link setting means 7 causes the link search means 3 to operate.
The page ID arrives at 9, and the link search means 39 sends the page ID to the link management means 8, and I of the page which has been linked to another page from the page ID in the past.
Search for D. At this time, the link management means 8 creates in advance from the link management means 8 so that not only the structural link information of the page relating to the presentation currently being created but also the link information of the structural link information of the presentation created in the past can be read. The recorded content of the structure link information of the presentation is set so that it can be read from the link management means 8. The link search means 39 searches for a page ID of a page that has been linked to the page in the past, using the page ID as a key. The link search means 39 sends the link ID as the search result to the link candidate display means 40, and the link candidate display means 40 displays the page IDs of all the pages linked in the past. At this time, not only the page ID but also the screen image of the page and how many times the same page has been linked in the past may be displayed together. For the number of times of linking, it is sufficient to confirm that there are a plurality of page IDs sent from the link search means 39. To display the screen image of the page,
The processing is performed as follows. Each page ID is sent from the link candidate display means 40 to the layout management means 5. The layout management means 5 searches for the media object ID on each page and its layout position using each page ID as a key, and sends the media object ID to the media information management means 3. The media information management means 3 takes out substantive data such as image data based on the media object ID and returns it to the layout management means 5. The layout management means 5 lays out and displays the media object at the layout position. When the operator selects a page that has been linked in the past displayed in this way, or specifies a new page, the page ID of the specified page is sent to the candidate selection link means 41. The candidate selection link means 41 records the link information through the link management means 8.

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Since the present invention is constructed as described above, it has the following effects.

Since a plurality of stories are defined in advance as rules and the rules can be arbitrarily specified to automatically create a story, the labor for creating a story can be omitted.

When it is desired to change the story or the page used in the story during the presentation, the story and the page used in the story can be changed based on the time required for the presentation and the importance of the page. The presentation can be executed according to the situation.

When it is desired to change the story or the page used in the story during the presentation, it is possible to change the story or the page used in the story by the navigation instruction based on the display history so far, so that the flexible presentation can be performed.

When it is desired to change the story or the page used in the story during the presentation, it becomes possible to change the story or the page used in the story based on the input keyword, which facilitates the presentation according to the intention of the operator. realizable.

Since the summary of all pages is displayed according to the page structure during the presentation, the page summary can be displayed in a small display space without obscuring the page being displayed, and a smooth presentation can be realized. it can.

Based on the structural link information indicating the relationship between pages in creating the presentation story,
Since the chapters, sections, etc. of each page can be automatically assembled, changes in page editing can be easily handled with a little effort.

Since the operation history of the media object on the page is recorded during the presentation and the information as to whether the media object was previously selected or not is displayed based on the operation history, the same history is erroneously displayed during the presentation. No more displaying information,
You can give a presentation smoothly.

When the story is changed during the presentation, the story or the page used in the story can be changed based on the bookmark inserted between the pages, so that a flexible presentation story can be constructed according to the situation at the moment. Will be possible.

When a plurality of types of presentation stories are prepared prior to the execution of a presentation and one story is created by combining these, a story composition plan is automatically created so that the operator can arbitrarily select. Therefore, in the creation of a new story, the operator can save the troublesome work of creating structural links between pages and determining the display order of the pages one by one, and the labor can be reduced.

In the work of setting a structural link between pages in preparation for presentation, when creating a link between pages, it is possible to search the structural link information between pages that has been set before and select a candidate. As a result, page selection work becomes easy.

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FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a data format configuration example of media information.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a data format configuration example of a media object.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data format configuration example of page information.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a data format configuration example of structural link information.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a data format configuration showing a story.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a data format configuration showing importance information.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a data format configuration example of hierarchical keyword information.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a data format configuration example of display history information.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a data format configuration example of bookmark information.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a data format configuration example of time information.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a basic part in a hypermedia presentation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a presentation processing procedure when a story is used in the basic operation of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a presentation processing procedure when a story is not used in the basic operation of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a configuration diagram showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a processing procedure of story creation using rules in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a configuration diagram showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a processing procedure for story change based on importance and time according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a configuration diagram showing a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a navigation processing procedure according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 20 is a configuration diagram showing a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a processing procedure of page change by a hierarchical keyword according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 22 is a configuration diagram showing a fifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a processing sequence of summary extraction according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing an example of a summary display in the fifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 25 is a configuration diagram showing a sixth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 26 is a diagram showing a processing procedure of decoration processing according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 27 is a diagram for explaining a decoration layout according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 28 is a configuration diagram showing a seventh embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 29 is a diagram showing a processing sequence of emphasis processing according to the seventh embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 30 is a configuration diagram showing an eighth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 31 is a diagram showing a processing sequence of bookmark processing according to the eighth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 32 is a configuration diagram showing a ninth embodiment of the present invention.

[Fig. 33] Fig. 33 is a diagram showing a story combining processing order in the ninth embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 34 is a diagram showing an example of story composition in the ninth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 35 is a configuration diagram showing a tenth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 36 is a diagram showing a processing order of history use at the time of linking in the tenth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 37 is an explanatory diagram of JP-A-7-85087 which is a conventional technique.

FIG. 38 is an explanatory diagram of Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-13537, which is a conventional technique.

FIG. 39 is a related art presentation creation software “Power Point of Microsoft Corporation.
It is explanatory drawing of "t".

FIG. 40 is an explanatory diagram of JP-A-3-74769 which is a conventional technique.

FIG. 41 is an explanatory view of JP-A-1-129352 which is a conventional technique.

FIG. 42 is a related art presentation creating software “Power Point of Microsoft Corporation”.
It is explanatory drawing of "t".

FIG. 43 is an explanatory diagram of JP-A-5-67150, which is a conventional technique.

FIG. 44 is an explanatory diagram of presentation creation software “Den International” which is a conventional technique.

[Explanation of symbols]

3 media information management means, 4 layout means, 5
Layout management means, 7 structure link setting means, 8 link management means, 9 story creation means, 10 story management means, 11 rule setting means, 12 rule management means 13 rule-based story changing means, 14 importance setting means, 15 important Degree management means, 16-hour recording means, 17-hour management means, 18 story change means based on importance and time, 19 display history storage means, 20
Display history information management means, 21 navigation means, 2
2 hierarchical keyword creating means, 23 hierarchical keyword managing means, 24 page search means, 25 story changing means based on hierarchical keywords, 26 page reading means, 27 summary extracting means, 28 summary displaying means, 29 numbering information creating means, 30 decoration means, 31
Emphasis processing means, 32 Bookmark storage means, 33 Bookmark management means, 34 Bookmark list display means, 35 Bookmark correspondence display means, 36 Story composition plan creating means, 37
Story selection display means, 38 story synthesis means, 39 link search means, 40 link candidate display means, 41 candidate selection link means.

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Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. A media information management unit for adding and managing a media identifier to data and media information including data size and color information, and storing and reading in and out of a storage unit; and management by the media information management unit. Layout management means for laying out on a page based on the media information that is defined and a media object that defines the dynamic function of the media information, and managing the information regarding the laid out page, and the structure between the own page and the parent page Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching for its own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the above, and managing the story data consisting of each page constituting the story and the standard display time of the page. And a story management means for storing or reading in a recording medium, Rule management means for storing and managing a rule that defines the development method of the Tory and a story creation program that executes a story development based on the rule, and a story creation program that executes the story development program corresponding to the above rule A hypermedia presentation system comprising: a story developing means for performing storage management of the order of composition of pages constituting the story. 2. A media information management unit for adding and managing a media identifier to data and media information including data size and color information, and storing and reading in and out of a storage unit, and management by the media information management unit. A layout management means for performing layout on a page based on the media information to be stored and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and managing information on the laid out page; and a structure between the own page and a parent page Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with its own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the above, and managing the story data consisting of each page constituting the story and the standard display time of the page. And a story management means for storing or reading in a recording medium, At the time of page switching during the presentation, the time recording means that measures the page display time until then and records the display time and the display time of the page corresponding to the specified page are searched, and the elapsed time from the presentation start and the already displayed Comparing the total standard display time of pages, if the story is continued as planned, it is determined that the standard display time of the story will be exceeded. A plurality of registered shortened stories are read out, and a standard display time that defines each page and story changing means that selects a shortened story that ends the story within the scheduled time based on importance information are provided. Hypermedia presentation system. 3. A media information management unit for adding and managing a media identifier to data and media information including data size and color information, and storing and reading in and out of a storage unit, and management by the media information management unit. Layout management means for laying out on a page based on the media information that is defined and a media object that defines the dynamic function of the media information, and managing the information regarding the laid out page, and the structure between the own page and the parent page Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching for its own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the above, and managing the story data consisting of each page constituting the story and the standard display time of the page. And a story management means for storing or reading in a recording medium, Display history information management means that stores the page information displayed so far on the Tory, searches the display history so far based on this information and searches for the corresponding page, and story change that advances and returns the story A hypermedia presentation system comprising: navigation means for receiving an instruction and changing a story based on the instruction request. 4. A media information management unit for adding and managing a media identifier to data and media information including data size and color information, and storing and reading in and out of a storage unit, and management by the media information management unit. Layout management means for laying out on a page based on the media information that is defined and a media object that defines the dynamic function of the media information, and managing information about the laid out page; Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with its own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the above, and managing the story data consisting of each page constituting the story and the standard display time of the page. And a story management means for storing or reading in a recording medium, A hierarchical keyword search means for managing a keyword defining a child relationship or a keyword consisting of a page identifier as one set of information and performing a search process based on the keyword, and a search command to the hierarchical keyword search means based on the keyword By providing a page search means for repeatedly searching for pages related to the keyword, and a story changing means for searching the story management means for a story including a page ID related to the keyword. Presentation system. 5. A media information management unit for adding and managing a media identifier to data and media information including data size and color information, and storing and reading in and out of a storage unit, and the media information management unit Layout management means for laying out on a page based on the media information that is defined and a media object that defines the dynamic function of the media information, and managing the information regarding the laid out page, and the structure between the own page and the parent page Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching for its own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the above, and managing the story data consisting of each page constituting the story and the standard display time of the page. And a story management means for storing or reading in a recording medium, Structure link information that defines the page structure, summary extraction means that extracts a summary of the entire story from the media objects on each page, and summary display means that lays out the extracted summary information on the display device based on the parent-child relationship. A hypermedia presentation system that features 6. A media information management unit for adding and managing a media identifier to data and media information including data size and color information, and storing and reading in and out of a storage unit, and management by the media information management unit. A layout management means for performing layout on a page based on the media information to be stored and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and managing information on the laid out page; and a structure between the own page and a parent page Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with its own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the above, and managing the story data consisting of each page constituting the story and the standard display time of the page. And a story management means for storing or reading in a recording medium, Numbering information creation means that analyzes the configuration information of links between pages and determines the numbering number system assigned to each page based on the link configuration between pages, and lays out based on the numbering information, or A hypermedia presentation system comprising a decoration means for changing the format. 7. A media information management unit for adding and managing a media identifier to data and media information including data size and color information, and storing and reading in a storage unit, and management by the media information management unit Layout management means for laying out on the page based on the media information that is defined and the media object that defines the dynamic function of the media information, and managing the information about the laid out page, and the structure between the own page and the parent page Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching for its own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the above, and managing the story data consisting of each page constituting the story and the standard display time of the page. And a story management means for storing or reading in a recording medium, Display history storage means for storing the pages displayed so far through the presentation as display history information, and whether or not the page associated with the media object forming the page has already been displayed when the page is displayed. A hypermedia presentation system comprising: a highlighting processing unit that performs a highlighting process on the media object when it is already displayed. 8. A media information management unit for adding and managing a media identifier to data and media information including data size and color information, and storing and reading in and out of a storage unit, and management by the media information management unit A layout management means for performing layout on a page based on the media information to be stored and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and managing information on the laid out page; and a structure between the own page and a parent page Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with its own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the above, and managing the story data consisting of each page constituting the story and the standard display time of the page. And a story management means for storing or reading in a recording medium, In response to an instruction to insert a bookmark for the page being displayed while the presentation is being performed, the page ID and bookmark comments are grouped as a set and managed as bookmark management means, and a list of bookmarks recorded during the presentation is displayed. Search the specified bookmark record from the bookmark list display means and the bookmark list,
A hypermedia presentation system comprising a bookmark-corresponding display means for displaying pages in which bookmarks are sandwiched. 9. A media information management unit for adding and managing a media identifier to data and media information including data size and color information, and storing and reading in and out of a storage unit, and management by the media information management unit A layout management means for performing layout on a page based on the media information to be stored and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and managing information on the laid out page; and a structure between the own page and a parent page Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with its own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the above, and managing the story data consisting of each page constituting the story and the standard display time of the page. And a story management means for storing or reading in a recording medium, When a number of story compositions are specified, a story composition plan creating / displaying means for creating and displaying a story composition plan by focusing on the pages common to the stories in the pages constituting each story, and the displayed story composition 1 selected for the plan
A hypermedia presentation system comprising a story synthesizing means for storing and managing one story as a definite story. 10. A media information management unit for adding and managing a media identifier to data and media information including data size and color information, and storing and reading in and out of a storage unit, and management by the media information management unit A layout management means for performing layout on a page based on the media information to be stored and a media object that defines a dynamic function of the media information, and managing information on the laid out page; and a structure between the own page and a parent page Link management means for searching or storing the structural link information by searching with its own page ID as a key based on the structural link information defining the above, and managing the story data consisting of each page constituting the story and the standard display time of the page. And a story management means for storing or reading in a recording medium, A link search means for searching a page or a media object related to a page being displayed or a media object laid out on the page based on previously created structural link information, and a link destination of the searched page or media object. A hyper characterized by including link candidate display means for displaying a list as candidates and candidate selection link means for creating structural link information by selecting a link destination page or media object from a list of link destination candidates. Media presentation system.