JPH06309367A - Electronic reading system with bookmarker function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enter some intention of a user in a bookmarker when the bookmarker is inserted. CONSTITUTION:A memo 402 of the bookmarker, e.g. 'read again' is entered as data on the bookmarker as shown by (b) and reading data is specified as data on the bookmarker; and, for example, the number of the starting line of the specified reading data in the whole reading data is entered as its address data 403, time information 404 on the registration of the bookmarker data is entered, and reading data 405 is entered as the specified bookmarker data, so that the bookmarker data are registered. The user selects a bookmarker by looking at the memos of the bookmarkers displayed on a display device when making a read, so that the reading data registered as the bookmarker data can be displayed and read. In the figure, (a) shows the structure wherein the bookmarker data are chained by pointers.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic reading system with a bookmark function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional electronic reading machine can read text by storing text data in some storage medium and displaying the text on a display. However, when reading with this electronic reading machine several times, you cannot continue reading from where you left off last time, and you cannot mark something like you would read with a book. In order to solve this, there is an electronic reader with a bookmark function (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 02-89176). This electronic reading machine with bookmark function is equipped with a bookmark function on the electronic reading machine, and when the screen is switched or the power is turned off, the page displayed immediately before that is automatically bookmarked and the screen is displayed again. When it is returned to or the power switch is turned on, the page registered as the bookmark is displayed. When restarting reading again with this function, the place where the reading was completed last time is displayed, and the reading can be continued as it is. Further, this electronic reading machine with a bookmark function can register a desired portion such as an important portion as a bookmark by using a bookmark key or the like. Furthermore, by displaying the bookmark registration mark on the screen when the bookmarked part is read, or by displaying the bookmarked character in a state different from other characters by flashing or reversing, This indicates that the page is a bookmark registered page. Therefore, it is possible to add a mark as a bookmark so that the book can be read. Further, the time data and registration order at the time of bookmark registration are registered, the time data can be searched, and each page can be sequentially read in the order of registration.

[0003]

Although the above-mentioned prior art can insert a bookmark in a book, it does not take into consideration any intention of inserting a bookmark.
There was a problem that I could not write in a book or write in a bookmark. An object of the present invention is to enable a bookmark to have some intention when pinching a bookmark. In addition, the above-mentioned conventional technology has a problem in that the bookmark cannot be selected because the table of contents is not displayed in the bookmark selection. Another object of the present invention is to enable bookmark selection without displaying the table of contents. Moreover, since the above-mentioned conventional technique handles only text data, there is a problem that data other than text data (for example, image data, graphic data) cannot be handled. Another object of the present invention is to enable data other than text data to be handled, and further to enable data other than text data to be registered as bookmarks. Further, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, since a plurality of persons share the same bookmark data as the reading data, there is a problem that the user cannot hold the unique bookmark data. Another object of the present invention is to allow a user to retain unique bookmark data. Furthermore, the above-mentioned conventional technique has the problem that the bookmark data cannot be viewed without the reading data because the bookmark data corresponds to the reading data. Another object of the present invention is to make it possible to view the bookmark data without reading data, and further to make it possible to edit not only the reading data registered in the bookmark but also the reading data.

[0004]

As a main means for achieving the above object, in an electronic reading system with a bookmark function, a data display section for displaying reading data read from a storage device on a display device is provided. And a bookmark display unit for displaying the data of
Means for generating bookmark data based on a user's instruction from the input device and reading data; means for registering and storing the bookmark data generated according to the user's instruction from the input device in a storage device; and a user from the input device Means for reading the reading data registered as the bookmark data from the storage device in response to the instruction from the display device and displaying the generated bookmark data in response to the user's instruction from the input device. Means are provided for displaying the bookmark data on the bookmark display section of the device, reading the bookmark data from the storage device, and displaying the bookmark data on the bookmark display section of the display device. Further, the means for generating the bookmark data is configured to generate the bookmark data including the character data in response to the user's input of the character data from the input device. Further, as the content of the reading data of the bookmark data, any type of reading data such as document data, image data, and graphic data can be handled. Further, the processing device is provided with means for editing the reading data of the registered bookmark data in response to a user's instruction from the input means. Also, the bookmark data is registered in a separate file independently for each user.

[0005]

Since the user can input character data when registering the bookmark data and display the input character data in the bookmark, the intention when the bookmark data is registered can be seen. Since the bookmark display section is provided, the bookmark can be selected at any time based on the display on the bookmark display section. Furthermore, since image data can be handled, data other than text data can be handled as bookmark data. Further, since the bookmark data corresponding to the user is held, each user can hold the bookmark data unique to the user. Furthermore, since the reading data is registered and held as the bookmark data, the bookmark data can be viewed without the reading data. further,
Since the reading data registered as the bookmark data can be edited, the reading data as the bookmark data can be arbitrarily changed in addition to viewing.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a system configuration example of an electronic reading system with a bookmark function.

This system comprises a central processing unit, a main storage unit, an external storage unit, a display unit, an input unit and a mouse connected to the input unit, and these units are connected by a bus. The external storage device stores text data, image data, graphic data, and the like as reading data, and bookmark data is registered, and the bookmark data includes reading data as bookmark data. The data registered in the external storage device is called by the main storage device and becomes the processing target of the central processing unit. The input device and the mouse are for inputting a user's instruction, and the display device is for displaying each of the above data. A pointing device may be used instead of the mouse.

FIG. 2 shows an example of display on the display device of the electronic reading system with a bookmark function. There are a data display section, a bookmark display section, and a user instruction section. The data display section displays the reading data and the title of the reading data. In the title display portion of the reading data, the titles such as chapters and sections of the reading data are displayed. Further, the title of the reading data may not be displayed. The bookmark display section displays bookmarks registered as bookmarks. In this bookmark, the character data input by the user is displayed as a memo of the bookmark. Also, the bookmark number is displayed on the bookmark. The bookmark may be selected using this number, but may not be displayed if the number is not selected. In the user instruction section, a “bookmark” used by the user to instruct bookmark registration
, And an “end” button used to instruct to terminate the electronic reading system with bookmark function. Further, a button for instructing to change the display of the reading data on the data display unit may be displayed on the user instruction unit. The user is instructed by selecting these buttons. The choice for this electronic reading system with bookmark function is
Select using a pointing device. However, if the input device has a key, the key may be used for selection.

FIG. 3 shows a display example on the display device of the electronic reading system with a bookmark function. The display method of the bookmark display unit is different from that of FIG. The bookmark display unit does not display the shape of the bookmark as shown in FIG. 2, but a column is provided for each bookmark, and a bookmark mark and a memo of the bookmark are displayed in each column. The width of each bookmark field may be the same, or the width of the field may be determined according to the amount of the memo of the bookmark. Also, when displaying many bookmarks, a scroll function may be added. Further, when there is no bookmark memo, the memo may be displayed without memo, or the title of the chapter or section when the bookmark is registered may be displayed. To select a bookmark, each column or bookmark mark may be selected, or a bookmark number may be selected. Also,
The character string that is the memo of the bookmark may be continuously displayed without providing a column for each bookmark. Further, when reading the reading data for the first time, the title of the chapter or section may be used as a bookmark memo in advance, and the reading data in an arbitrary range such as chapters or sections may be registered as the reading data as the bookmark data. By displaying bookmarks on which themes such as chapters and sections are written,
There is also an effect that the contents of the chapter or section can be grasped and the rough contents of the reading data can be understood. In the following description, when "bookmark data" is described, this means reading data as bookmark data. 2 and 3, the bookmark is displayed in the bookmark display area so that the bookmark can be selected immediately, and the displayed bookmark shows the intention with the bookmark in between, so it is difficult to decide which bookmark to select. Never.

First, as a first embodiment, FIG. 4 to FIG.
An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, which has bookmark registration, deletion, and selection functions, will be mainly described. Figure 4
The process of the electronic reading system with the bookmark function in FIG. 5 will be described using the bookmark data. Details of FIG. 5 will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 to 9. FIG. 4 shows an example of bookmark data. (A) is a structure for bookmark data of the electronic reading system with a bookmark function. 401 is a pointer to the data of the previous bookmark. Reference numeral 402 denotes a bookmark memo. The bookmark memo is entered by the user when the bookmark is registered. 403 is address information of the reading data registered in the bookmark (in the case of a sentence, the number of lines of a book, etc.,
For images, the file name or address in the image file). Only the start address of the reading data may be used, or the start and end addresses of the reading data may be used.
Reference numeral 404 is time data registered as a bookmark. 405
Is bookmark data. Bookmark data is reading data registered as a bookmark. Reference numeral 406 is a pointer to the next bookmark data. Although the bookmark data 405 holds the reading data registered as the bookmark, the reading data may be stored in a file having a temporary name, and the bookmark data 405 may hold the file name storing the reading data.
(B) is an example when the bookmark data is stored in a file. The items from 402 to 405 are stored with keywords. Each keyword may be changed arbitrarily. The keyword "% END" is stored as the end of one bookmark. Therefore, one bookmark is data between the keywords “% bookmark” and “% END”.

FIG. 5 is a processing flow chart of the electronic reading system with a bookmark function. In step 501, the bookmark data is read from the file storing the bookmark (usually by the file read from the external memory to the main storage device), and the structure of FIG. 4A is created. Also,
The bookmark is displayed on the bookmark display section. Details of step 501 will be described with reference to FIG. In step 502, the reading data is read and displayed on the data display unit. In step 503, step 504 is repeated until the user gives an end instruction. Step 504 determines the user's instruction. If the user's instruction is an instruction to change the data display unit, the procedure proceeds to step 505, and if it is an instruction relating to other bookmark functions, the procedure proceeds to step 506. Step 505 is
The display of the reading data is changed according to the user's instruction to change the reading data. In step 506, the bookmark function is processed. Details of step 506 will be described with reference to FIG. In step 507, since there is an instruction to end the electronic reading system with a bookmark function, the last displayed reading data is registered as a bookmark. The user may input the memo 402 of the reading data to be registered as a bookmark, or may be set by the system. If the last displayed reading data is already registered as a bookmark, it is not necessary to register the bookmark. Further, instead of the reading data lastly displayed on the data display unit this time, the reading data may be the rearmost reading data among the reading data displayed this time. Furthermore, when the last displayed reading data at the time of system startup is registered as a bookmark, the data 403 to 405 of the bookmark in FIG. 4 may be replaced with the last displayed reading data of this time. Further, when the system starts, if there is the last displayed reading data, the bookmark is not displayed in step 501, and the reading data displayed in step 502 may be the last displayed reading data. . The bookmark registration in step 507 will be described with reference to FIG. Step 508 stores the bookmark data in a file. Details of step 508 will be described with reference to FIG.

FIGS. 6A and 6B are process flow diagrams for reading the bookmark data in step 501 shown in FIG. 5 from the file. Step 6 in the flow of (a)
01 reads the bookmark data and creates the structure shown in FIG. Details of step 601 are shown in the flow of (b). First, in step 602, a file storing bookmark data is opened. Step 603
Repeats steps 604 to 608 until the bookmark data ends. Step 604 creates a bookmark data area. At the time of the first bookmark data, NULL is set in the pointer 401 to the previous bookmark data. In the case after that, the pointer of the previous bookmark data is inserted, and the pointer of the created bookmark data is inserted into the pointer 406 to the data of the next bookmark of the previous bookmark data. In step 605, the bookmark memo 402 is registered. Step 606 is address information 4
Register 03. Step 607 is time data 404.
To register. Step 608 registers bookmark data. Upon completion of step 603, then step 609
Go to In step 609, the file storing the bookmark data is closed. This step 609 may be at the end of the system. When step 601 is completed, the procedure goes to step 610. Step 610 calculates the display location of each bookmark from the number of bookmarks. Step 611 displays the bookmark at the determined place.
When the user designates a file storing the bookmark, the file designated by the user is set as the file storing the bookmark data.

FIGS. 7A, 7B and 7C are processing flow charts of the bookmark function. In the flow of (a),
Step 701 determines an instruction from the user. If the user's instruction is bookmark registration, the process proceeds to step 702. If bookmark is selected, the process proceeds to step 703. If bookmark is deleted, the process proceeds to step 706. Step 702 is a function for registering a bookmark. In the case of the bookmark registration instruction, in the case of the screen display of FIG. 2, nothing may be registered and the bookmark may be always displayed, and the bookmark registration may be instructed when the bookmark is selected. In the case of not using each bookmark column in the memo column in the case of the screen display of FIG. 3, it may be determined that there is a bookmark registration instruction when the text data is input in the memo column. When inputting in the middle of one memo of a bookmark that has already been entered in the memo field, it may be determined that the memo content is changed and the content of the memo of the bookmark may be changed. Furthermore, when using each bookmark column in the memo column in the case of the screen display in FIG. 3, display the blank column without any entry,
When the character data is input to the bookmark, it may be determined that there is an instruction to register the bookmark, and when the character data is input to the already registered bookmark field, it may be determined that the content of the memo is changed. . For more information on step 702, see
This will be described with reference to FIG. Step 703 is a function of displaying bookmark data when the user selects a bookmark, and details are shown in the flow of (b). First, which bookmark has been selected in step 704 is shown. The display form of the selected bookmark on the bookmark display unit may be changed, or the title display on the data display unit may be changed. Then step 705
Displays the selected bookmark data 405 at the place where the reading data is displayed on the data display unit. Step 70
6 is a function for deleting the registered bookmark, and details are shown in the flow of (c). In step 707, the value of the pointer to the bookmark data to be deleted of the bookmark data before and after the designated bookmark data is changed, and the bookmark data before and after the deletion is connected to delete the bookmark data to be deleted. In step 708, since the number of bookmarks has been changed, the display location of each bookmark is determined from the number of bookmarks and the bookmark is displayed. The bookmarks will be displayed in the order of registration.
However, by causing the user to instruct the display order of the bookmarks and rearranging the data of each bookmark in FIG. 4A in the instructed order, the bookmarks can be displayed in the order instructed by the user. Further, since the bookmark data includes the time data 403 and the address information 404, the bookmark data may be arranged and displayed according to this information.

FIG. 8 shows details of step 702 and step 507 of FIG. 5, and is a process flow chart of the bookmark registration function. In step 801, a bookmark data area is secured, and the time data for instructing the bookmark registration is set to the time data 40.
Register in 4. In step 802, it is determined whether or not there is a range specification of the reading data to be registered as a bookmark. If the range is specified, go to step 803. If not, go to step 8
Go to 04. In step 803, the reading data to be registered as a bookmark is designated, and the range of the designated reading data is registered in the bookmark data 405. In step 804, the reading data for one screen which is being displayed is registered in the bookmark data 405. In step 805, the address information of the bookmark data 405 registered in the bookmark is registered in the address information 403. Step 806 determines whether or not there is a memo input. If a memo is input, the process goes to step 807, and if not, the process goes to step 808. Step 807
Registers the input character data in the bookmark memo 402. In step 808, it is determined whether there is an instruction to end. If there is an instruction to end, step 80
Go to 9. In step 809, a memo indicating the last read is registered in the bookmark memo 402. At this time, if the date and time are also registered, it is difficult to see when it was last seen.
Also, if this bookmark is the very first data of the bookmark data, the bookmark of the last reading data that you saw last time can be found immediately at the next startup (this can be done with the pointer. I'll do the last created data first.) Any of step 801, steps 802 and 805, and step 806 may be performed first.

Step 610 calculates the display location of each bookmark from the number of bookmarks. Step 611
Displays a bookmark at a designated place. Also, if there is an instruction to end, search the bookmark data that registered the reading data seen at the end of the previous time from the bookmark memo, and if there is, read the reading data last seen this time in the bookmark data. You may register. Further, if there is an end instruction, steps 610 and 611 may be skipped.

FIG. 9 is a detailed flowchart of step 508 shown in FIG. 5, and is a process flow diagram of storing bookmark data in a file. Step 901 opens a file that stores processing data. In step 902, steps 903 to 906 are repeated while there is bookmark data. In step 903, a bookmark memo 402 is stored following the keyword “% bookmark”. Step 904
Stores the bookmark address information 403 after the keyword "% address". In step 905, bookmark time data 404 is stored following the keyword “% time”. Step 906 is the keyword "% data".
After that, bookmark data 405 is stored. Step 9
07 stores the keyword “% END” indicating that the data of one bookmark has ended. When the storage of the bookmark data is completed, the file is closed in step 908.

Next, as a second embodiment, an electronic reading system with a bookmark function capable of handling data of a plurality of media will be described with reference to FIGS. 10 and 11. Using bookmark data that can handle data other than the document data shown in FIG. 10, step 703, which is the bookmark data display processing when the bookmark is selected in FIG. 7, is changed to the processing in FIG. FIG. 10 shows an example of bookmark data that handles data other than text data. FIG. 10A shows a bookmark structure and FIG. 10B shows bookmark data in a file. Here, in addition to the data shown in FIG. 4, each data type 1
001 is added. The bookmark data is set to 1002. Bookmark data 405 when stored in a file
Instead of the keyword "% data", bookmark data 1002 is stored as a keyword indicating the type of data. Since the type of data can be determined by the keyword indicating the type of data, it is possible to handle a plurality of types of data. In this example, text data and image data are shown, but other graphic data is also possible. Further, the data type may be stored after the keyword “% data type” of the data type. Regarding the image data, the location where the image data is displayed and the size information of the image data are stored, and the image data is stored after the delimiter “:”. As for the text data, the location and size information may be stored and the text data may be displayed at the designated location. The first bookmark data in FIG. 10A is text data, the second bookmark data is text data and image data, and the third bookmark data is image data. Like the second bookmark data, it is possible to have a plurality of bookmark data as one bookmark data, and the types of the bookmark data may be different. For example, the text data may be plural, and the text data and the image data may be included.

FIG. 11 is a process flow chart for displaying bookmark data when a bookmark is selected in the bookmark function.
Step 1101 displays the selected bookmark in a shape different from that of other bookmarks. For example, you can change the color,
It may be blinked or the display location may be changed to indicate that the bookmark is selected. If the data display section has a title display, a bookmark memo may be displayed at the display location of the title. In step 1102, step 1103 is repeated until the bookmark data ends. In step 1103, the type of bookmark data is determined. If the bookmark data type is text data, step 11
Go to 04 and display the text data. If the type of bookmark data is image data, step 1105
Go to and display the image data at the specified location. Further, when the type of bookmark data is graphic data, the procedure goes to step 1106 to display graphic data. Similarly, when the type of data other than these comes, the type of data may be determined in step 1103 and the process for displaying the data may be performed.

From the above, it can be seen that the electronic reading system with a bookmark function can handle data types other than text data, and bookmark data of a plurality of data types can be registered in one bookmark. It was In Fig. 3, the bookmark pattern displayed in the memo field
It makes it possible to determine what kind of data the data is. Even when this electronic reader with bookmark function is a part of another system, if the place to display the data of the system is known, by treating the data displayed at that place as the reading data, Bookmark function can be realized. Also, if there is address information that can uniquely determine what information is in that system, and if the system can change the data to the information of the specified address by giving the address information,
By selecting the bookmark, you can immediately access the data before and after selecting the bookmark.

Next, as a third embodiment, an electronic reading system with a bookmark function capable of connecting and registering reading data at a plurality of places in one bookmark will be described with reference to FIGS. 12 to 15. As shown in FIG. 12, using bookmark data in which a plurality of bookmarks are registered in one bookmark,
Step 506, which is processing of the bookmark function of FIG.
The processing will be changed and described. Details of FIG. 13 will be described with reference to FIGS. 14 and 15.

FIG. 12 shows an example of bookmark data in which a plurality of bookmarks are registered in one bookmark. (A) shows a bookmark structure, (b) shows bookmark data in a file, and Multiple bookmark data are registered as bookmarks. The same bookmark data is shown in (a) by an example of two structures. In this example, two bookmark data are held as one bookmark data. Data unique to each bookmark includes address information, time data, and bookmark data. The first bookmark data is 1201, 1
202 and 1203, and the data of the second bookmark is
1204, 1205, and 1206. In this example, the bookmark memo 402 is used as common data, but the bookmark memo 402 may be held as individual bookmark data. Further, in the bookmark display when the memo is stored as the data of each bookmark, all the memos may be displayed. First, the left side holds one bookmark data and two bookmark data in succession. On the right side, a new bookmark data structure is created for the second and subsequent bookmark data. The two structures hold a plurality of bookmark data as one bookmark data. In addition, since the data of each bookmark held as one bookmark data is not lost, each bookmark data can be made into a plurality of bookmark data again.
(B) is data when bookmark data is stored in a file. Since the data of one bookmark is up to the keyword “% END”, it can be seen that the data of two bookmarks are the data of one bookmark. Even when a plurality of memos are held as the data of each bookmark, a plurality of memos can be held because the keyword "% END" is judged as one bookmark data.

FIG. 13 is a processing flow chart of the bookmark function for holding a plurality of bookmark data as one bookmark data. In step 1301, in addition to the bookmark registration, bookmark selection, and bookmark deletion of FIG. 7, bookmark addition, bookmark deletion, and bookmark division are determined by the user. Bookmark addition is a function of registering an existing bookmark and a newly created bookmark into one bookmark, and performs a bookmark addition function 1302. Bookmark merge is a function of registering data of two or more existing bookmarks as one bookmark data, and performs bookmark merge function 1303. The bookmark dividing function is a function of dividing the bookmark data into a plurality of bookmark data when one bookmark has a plurality of bookmark data, and performs the bookmark dividing function 1304. 14
Then, bookmark addition function 1302 and bookmark merge function 1303
Will be described in detail. The bookmark division function will be described in detail with reference to FIG. Also, a function of copying the registered bookmark data may be added.

FIG. 14 is a processing flow chart of the bookmark addition function of (a) and the merge function of (b). First, the bookmark adding function 1302 will be described with reference to the flow of (a). Step 702 creates new bookmark data, as described above. In step 1401, the registered bookmark to which the created bookmark data is added is instructed. In step 1402, the order of registration of bookmark data is instructed. If there is no instruction, the bookmark data may be created in the order of the newly created bookmark data 702 to the registered bookmark data 1401. Here, it is assumed that an instruction is given to add the newly created bookmark data to the registered bookmark data. In step 1403, the bookmark memo 402 is created. If the memos are the same, it may be one memo. Also, step 7
02, the input of the memo is omitted, and step 140
It may be a memo of the bookmark data designated in 1. In step 1404, the bookmark data created in step 702 is added to the bookmark data structure designated in step 1401 to create the structure of FIG.
In addition, the bookmark data structure created in step 702 is deleted from the bookmark data. Or step 1
Two bookmark data may be created in another bookmark structure from the bookmark data designated in 401 and the bookmark data newly created in step 702, and the original bookmark data may be deleted. Further, step 1401, step 1402 and step 1403 may be processed before step 702, and step 702 may add newly created bookmark data to the bookmark data instructed in step 1401. Step 1405 calculates the number of bookmarks and displays the bookmarks. At this time, in order to indicate that there are two or more bookmark data as one bookmark, for example, a bookmark mark may be displayed in the memo field in the bookmark display of FIG. 3 by the number of bookmark data. In addition, when multiple bookmark marks are displayed in one bookmark field, if you select the bookmark mark, the bookmark data corresponding to the displayed bookmark mark among the multiple registered bookmarks will be displayed in the data display section. When a bookmark column other than the bookmark mark is selected, bookmark data registered as bookmarks may be connected in the order of bookmark registration and displayed on the data display unit.

Next, the bookmark merge function 1303 will be described with reference to the flow of FIG. Step 1406 is
Specify the bookmark data to be merged. The order of merging may be the order instructed, or after instructing, the order may be newly instructed. Step 1407
It is instructed whether to combine the bookmark memos to be merged into one, or to independently retain the bookmark memos as the data of each bookmark. When the bookmark memos are to be one data, the bookmark memo 402 is created. Alternatively, a bookmark memo that has already been created may be retained as data of each bookmark, a merged bookmark memo may be newly created, and the memo displayed as a bookmark may be the newly created memo 402. In step 1408, the bookmark data is created in the structure shown in FIG. 12A, and the merged bookmark data is deleted. Step 1409 calculates the number of bookmarks and displays the bookmarks.

FIG. 15 is a processing flow chart of the bookmark dividing function 1304 for dividing the bookmark data into a plurality of bookmark data when one bookmark has a plurality of bookmark data. Step 1501 instructs a bookmark to be bookmark-divided. Step 1502 creates a bookmark memo. As bookmark data, if a bookmark memo is held, the held memo may be used as a bookmark memo, and if there is only a common memo 402, a bookmark memo may be created. The common memo 402 may be a memo for each bookmark. In step 1503, a bookmark data structure is created for each bookmark data, and each bookmark data is registered. Further, the bookmark data designated in step 1501 is deleted. Step 1504
Calculates the number of bookmarks and displays the bookmarks. Above,
Multiple bookmarks can be registered as one bookmark. Since a plurality of bookmarks can be registered as one bookmark, it is possible to easily organize the bookmarks with a certain meaning. Further, the bookmark data registered as one bookmark data can be divided into a plurality of pieces.

Next, as a fourth embodiment, FIG. 16 to FIG.
An electronic reading system with a bookmark function that can edit registered bookmark reading data will be described with reference to FIG. Figure 1
Using the bookmark data shown in FIG. 6 indicating whether or not the bookmark has been edited, step 506, which is the processing of the bookmark function in FIG. 5, is changed to the processing in FIG. Also, FIG.
A plurality of bookmark data shown in FIG. 8 can be registered and edited as one bookmark data, and the bookmark data that can be edited is used to replace step 1702, which is the processing of the bookmark editing function of FIG. 17, with the processing of FIG. Change and explain.

16A and 16B are examples of bookmark data when bookmark data registered as bookmarks are edited. FIG. 16A shows a bookmark structure and FIG. 16B shows bookmark data in a file. This is the bookmark data 12 of the data in FIG.
This is bookmark data when 03 is edited. There are bookmark types 1601 and 1603 indicating whether or not they have been edited.
Since the bookmark data 1604 is not edited, the bookmark type 1603 is “unedited” indicating that it is not edited. “Unedited” may be “NULL”. When storing in the file of (b), the keyword "bookmark type" is followed by the bookmark type 1601, 1
603 is stored. The bookmark type 1603 need not be stored because it is not edited. Also, in this example,
Although the bookmark type is provided to indicate whether or not the bookmark data has been edited, the determination may be made by setting the address information to NULL.

FIG. 17 is a process flow diagram of the bookmark function, which is composed of the process flows of (a) and (b).
Bookmark editing function is added. In step (1701) of the flow (a), if the user's instruction is to edit a bookmark, the process proceeds to step 1702. This step is shown in the processing flow of (b). In step 1703, step 1704 is repeated until the editing is completed. Step 17
If it is determined in 04 that the user's instruction is to edit the memo, the process proceeds to step 1705, and if it is determined that the bookmark data is edited, the process proceeds to step 1706. In step 1705, the memo 402 of the bookmark is changed. In step 1706, the bookmark data 1602 is edited. In step 1707, the bookmark data 1602 edited in step 1706 is registered. In step 1708, the bookmark type 1601 is set to “edit”. Step 1709
Changes the bookmark time data 1202. In step 1709, the value of the time data 1202 was changed,
The time data for bookmark registration and the time data for changing the bookmark may be held separately.

FIG. 18 shows an example of bookmark data in which a plurality of bookmark data are registered as one bookmark data. In FIG. 12, it is treated as one bookmark data, but it can be treated as individual bookmark data. However, when editing the bookmark data in which the data of a plurality of bookmarks is registered, it is edited across the individual bookmark data. Therefore, the individual bookmark data is lost. So you can keep it as individual bookmark data,
At the time of editing, in order to determine whether to edit over the bookmark data, "connection" is added as the type of bookmark. If the bookmark type is "connecting", the bookmark data is edited across, otherwise, only one of the bookmark data registered in the bookmark is to be edited. In FIG. 16, two bookmark data are registered,
One of the bookmark data 1602 was edited.
The bookmark data 1604 is not a target for editing. Also, an example of edited bookmark data when the bookmark type is "connecting" is shown below. Since the bookmark data 1802 and 1804 have a bookmark type of “connection”, the bookmark data 1802 and 1804 become bookmark data 1806 after editing, and the bookmark type is “edit”. The type of bookmark may be "edit" immediately instead of "connecting". Although the bookmark memo 402 is common here, there may be a plurality of memos or a new common memo may be created.

FIG. 19 is a processing flow chart of the bookmark editing function. In step 1901, step 1902 is repeated until the editing is completed. Step 1902 determines the user's instruction. If the user's instruction is the connection of bookmarks, step 1903; if it is a copy of bookmarks, step 190.
4, Step 1905 if the order of connection is changed, Step 1906 if the bookmark is disassembled, Step 1907 if the bookmark is deleted, Step 1 if the memo is edited.
908, if the bookmark data is edited, step 1909
Go to In step 1903, the bookmark data to be connected is designated, and the bookmark data is created into the structure shown in the upper diagram of FIG. The bookmark data registered in one bookmark data may be connected or the independent bookmark data may be connected. When connecting independent bookmark data, the original bookmark data may be deleted or may be retained. Step 1904 is a copy of the bookmark data. Concatenate the data of one bookmark with the data of another bookmark. The data of linked bookmarks may be deleted or may be retained. In step 1905, the order of the linked bookmark data is changed. Step 1906
Divide the linked bookmark data into individual bookmark data. If it is the edited bookmark data, the bookmark data is divided. At this time, the bookmark data is different data, but other bookmark data may be the same or may be newly created. When newly creating, the user gives an instruction. Bookmark data may be duplicated. In step 1907, the linked bookmark data is deleted. The deleted bookmark data may be newly created as one bookmark data. In step 1908, the bookmark memo is edited. Step 1
909 edits the bookmark data. Step 1910
Edited the bookmark data in step 1909,
The bookmark type 1805 is set to “edit”, the bookmark time data 1205 is changed, and the bookmark data structure in the lower diagram of FIG. 18 is created. The bookmark data registered can be edited. Moreover, since a plurality of bookmark data can be made into one bookmark data, the reading data can be easily put together by editing the bookmark data.

Finally, as a fifth embodiment, an electronic reading system with a bookmark function for one or more reading data will be described with reference to FIGS. 20 and 21, and the bookmark data for each individual user will be described. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function to hold will be described. Further, an electronic reading system with a bookmark function, which can return to the reading data before displaying the bookmark, as an instruction to change the display content of the reading data display unit after selecting the bookmark will be described. Using the bookmark data for one or more reading data of FIG. 20, the processing of FIG. 21A is added to the step 703 which is the processing at the time of selecting the bookmark of FIG. 7, and the reading data of FIG. The process of FIG. 21B will be additionally described as step 505 which is a process of instructing to change the display content.

FIG. 20 shows an example of bookmark data, which is (a).
A bookmark structure, (b) shows the bookmark data in the file. In the left diagram of (a), data of two bookmarks is registered as one bookmark. The right figure is the edited data by concatenating the bookmark data in the left figure. Bookmark types 2001 and 2003 are bookmark types 2005
Has been changed to. Also, bookmark data 1203, 120
4 is bookmark data 2006. In the storage in the file of (b), the left figure holds the bookmark data in units of individual bookmark data, but the right figure shows the bookmark data 2006 for other bookmark data as one bookmark data. Holds as. Further, unlike FIG. 18, reading file names 2002 and 2004 for identifying reading data are added as bookmark data. By adding the reading file name, it is possible to determine which reading data is the bookmark data, so that the bookmark data of a plurality of reading data can be collectively stored in one bookmark data file. In addition, the bookmark data is stored in multiple files, the file name that stores the bookmark data is listed in the file that stores the bookmark data, and the bookmark data is stored when the electronic reading system with the bookmark function is started. You may read the bookmark data listed in the stored file. Further, the file storing the bookmark data may be changed or the reading data may be changed during execution of the electronic reading system with bookmark function. Further, each user may decide the file for storing the bookmark data.
Furthermore, a file of bookmark data may be instructed when the electronic reading system with a bookmark function is started. Since each user can instruct / hold the file storing the bookmark data, other users can view the reading data while one user is viewing the reading data.

FIG. 21 is a processing flow chart when there is an instruction to change the reading data after the selection of the bookmark, which is composed of the flows of (a) and (b). In the case of the instruction to change the display content when the bookmark data registered as a bookmark is displayed by selecting the bookmark, since the address information is held as the bookmark data, the instruction in the address information can be performed. However, in the electronic reading system with the bookmark function, the bookmark data can be edited and different reading data can be displayed. Therefore, when an instruction to change the display content when displaying different reading data or edited bookmark data, it is assumed that the instruction is made in the data displayed before the bookmark data is displayed.
In addition, a button "Return" is provided as an instruction to change the display content so that the bookmark data can be temporarily displayed. When this button is selected, it returns to the data before displaying the bookmark data. First, the additional processing when the bookmark is selected will be described with reference to the flow of (a). Step two
101 is changed to a title display indicating that the bookmark data is displayed by selecting the bookmark. Also, the display of the selected bookmark may be different from that of other bookmarks. Step 210
2 displays a "return" button on the reading data before the bookmark data is displayed on the user instruction unit.

Next, regarding the processing of the instruction to change the display content of the data display section when displaying the bookmark data, (b)
The flow will be described. In step 2103, it is determined whether it is a return instruction. Step 2 for return instructions
If not, go to step 2105. In step 2104, the data before displaying the bookmark data is used. In step 2105, it is determined whether or not the bookmark data is the edited bookmark data based on the type of the bookmark, which is the bookmark data.
If not edited, go to step 2107. In step 2106, an instruction is given at the address of the data before displaying the bookmark data. A step 2107 decides whether or not the reading file of the reading data and the reading file of the bookmark data match, and if they match, a step 2108.
If there is no match, go to step 2106. In step 2108, an instruction to change the address of the bookmark data is given. Since the bookmark-registered reading data is held as the bookmark data, the bookmark-registered reading data is displayed quickly when the bookmark is selected. Moreover, even if there is no reading data, the reading data registered in the bookmark can be viewed. Further, bookmark data of other reading data can be displayed. Furthermore, since a plurality of bookmark data can be registered as one bookmark data and the bookmark data can be edited, the contents can be summarized using the bookmark. Also, when displaying the bookmark data registered as a bookmark, it is also possible to change the bookmark data by the address before the bookmark data is displayed or in the data before that. It can be assumed that there is an instruction to change the content.

[0035]

According to the present invention, a bookmark display section is provided,
Since it is possible to display the intention of inserting the bookmark entered by the user in the bookmark, it is possible to know what kind of intention the bookmark is sandwiched when the bookmark is viewed. Also,
Since the image data can be handled, there is an effect that the reading data including the image can be viewed as the bookmark data without targeting only the text data as the reading data as the bookmark data. Moreover, since the bookmark data of each user is stored, there is an effect that the contents of the bookmark are not changed by other users. Further, since the bookmark-registered reading data can be held as the bookmark data, there is an effect that the bookmark-registered reading data can be viewed without the reading data. Further, since the reading data registered as the bookmark data can be edited, there is an effect that the reading data can be put together by using the bookmark.

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FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of an electronic reading system with a bookmark function.

FIG. 2 is a display example on a display device of an electronic reading system with a bookmark function.

FIG. 3 is another display example on the display device of the electronic reading system with the bookmark function.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of bookmark data.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a processing flow of an electronic reading system with a bookmark function.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a processing flow of reading bookmark data.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a processing flow of a bookmark function.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a processing flow of a bookmark registration function.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a processing flow of storing bookmark data in a file.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of bookmark data in the second embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a processing flow of displaying bookmark data when a bookmark is selected in the second embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of bookmark data in the third embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a processing flow of a bookmark function in the third embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a processing flow of a bookmark adding / merging function in the third embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a processing flow of bookmark division in the third embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an example of bookmark data in the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a processing flow of a bookmark function in the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of bookmark data in the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a processing flow of a bookmark editing function in the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an example of bookmark data in the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a processing flow of changing reading data after selecting a bookmark in the fifth embodiment.

Claims (19)

[Claims] 1. A storage device for storing text data and bookmark data, which are reading data, and a display device.
An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, comprising an input device and a processing device, reading reading data from a storage device, displaying the reading data on a display device, and changing the display of the reading data on the display device according to an instruction from the user's input device, In addition, a data display unit for displaying the reading data read from the storage device and a bookmark display unit for displaying the bookmark data, the processing device, the user instruction from the input device and reading data Means for generating bookmark data, means for registering and storing bookmark data generated in response to a user instruction from the input device in the storage device, and storing the bookmark data in response to a user instruction from the input device. Means for reading the reading data registered as bookmark data from the device and displaying the reading data on the data display unit of the display device; In response to a user's instruction from the input device, the data of the bookmark that the generated display on the bookmark display unit of the display device, also reads the data of bookmarks from the storage device,
An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, comprising means for displaying the bookmark data on a bookmark display section of the display device. 2. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein the means for generating the bookmark data generates location information of the reading data as the bookmark data in the reading data as bookmark data. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, which is characterized in that 3. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein the means for generating the bookmark data includes bookmark data containing the character data in response to the user's input of the character data from the input device. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, which is characterized by generating. 4. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein the processing device includes means for displaying a memo field in the bookmark display portion of the display device, in which character data can be input, and the bookmark data is stored. When the user inputs character data in the memo field using the input device, the means for generating is
Generates the input character data as bookmark data and the reading data displayed on the data display unit as bookmark data, and the bookmark data is read from the storage device and displayed on the bookmark display unit of the display device. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, wherein a bookmark can be selected by selecting the memo field when the electronic reading system is operated. 5. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein the means for generating the bookmark data is the last opened reading data and the last reading data at the end of the operation of the electronic reading system with a bookmark function. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, which is characterized by generating information as bookmark data. 6. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 5, wherein the means for generating the bookmark data has the reading data last seen at the last time when the operation of the electronic reading system with the bookmark function ends. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, characterized in that, when registered as data, the reading data last seen this time is generated as bookmark data instead of the reading data last seen last time. 7. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein the user can arbitrarily determine the order of the bookmarks to be displayed on the bookmark display section according to the user's instruction from the input device. Electronic reading system with bookmark feature. 8. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein the means for generating the bookmark data specifies a range of the reading data as the bookmark data in accordance with a user's instruction from the input device. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function that is characterized by: 9. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein the reading data of the bookmark data handles any kind of reading data such as document data, image data and graphic data. Electronic reading system with bookmark function. 10. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 9, wherein two or more types of reading data of document data, image data and graphic data are combined and handled as the contents of the reading data of one bookmark data. Electronic reading system with bookmark feature. 11. The electronic reading system with bookmark function according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the means for generating the bookmark data generates the type of the reading data as bookmark data. Electronic reading system with functions. 12. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein the processing device includes a unit that edits the reading data of the registered bookmark data in accordance with a user instruction from the input unit. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, which is characterized in that 13. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein the processing device responds to a user's instruction from the input unit to select a desired number of bookmark data from a plurality of registered bookmark data. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, comprising means for selecting one of the bookmark data and generating one bookmark data from the selected bookmark data. 14. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein the processing device converts one registered bookmark data into a plurality of bookmark data in accordance with a user instruction from the input unit. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, characterized by comprising a dividing means. 15. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein the bookmark data is registered in a separate file independently for each user. . 16. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein the means for registering and storing the generated bookmark data in the storage device is generated in response to a user's file instruction from the input device. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function characterized by registering and storing bookmark data in a specified file. 17. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein when the reading data as the data of the bookmark is displayed on the data display unit, a change instruction for returning the display content is instructed by the input means. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, comprising means for changing the data displayed on the data display unit to the reading data displayed before the reading data as the bookmark data is displayed. 18. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein when there is an instruction to change the reading data of the data display unit while the reading data as the data of the bookmark is being displayed on the data display unit. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, characterized in that a change instruction is given when the reading data as the bookmark data is displayed. 19. The electronic reading system with a bookmark function according to claim 1, wherein when there is an instruction to change the reading data of the data display unit while the reading data as the data of the bookmark is displayed on the data display unit. An electronic reading system with a bookmark function, characterized in that there is an instruction to change the reading data when the reading data before the reading data as the bookmark data is displayed.