Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
1998-06-16
2001-09-04
Black, Thomas (Department: 2171)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06286014
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD OF INVENTION
This invention relates to an information processing apparatus, and method of acquiring a file to be linked.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In a communication network such as the Internet, a server can provide information for displaying a document in which text, an image and voice are mixed together (called hypertext hereafter) as a home page. A client can edit the hypertext for display in the form of a document. An application program or a device to display such hypertext is called a browser. Hypertext defines a character string to be displayed and a format thereof (including the size of a character) and describes an explanation of a file (text, image and voice, etc.) to be linked. Such hypertext is described in HTML (Hypertext MARKUP LANGUAGE) language, for example.
When a client browser receives hypertext, it displays a character string or a explanatory note written in the hypertext according to the format thereof. When a user selects the explanatory note, the browser links to a file based on the file name (called link file name) written in the hypertext in association with the explanatory note to display the file in the display screen. Also, when the file to be linked is voice, it is reproduced in the client side for output.
The browser is installed on a computer such as a general purpose personal computer for execution. Recently, improvements in voice recognition technology allow a user to input voice instead of keyboard characters.
Input by voice is effective for a stereotypical character string such as “forward” (proceeding to the next display screen), “backward” (proceeding to the previous display screen) and reload commands which can be input orally through the browser.
However, the user has to point to the explanatory note of the file to be linked with a mouse and can not orally instruct the display or the file to be linked.
It is, therefore, an object of the present invention to provide a browser which allows voice input without requiring prepared hypertext.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
To achieve the above objective, the present invention provides an information processing apparatus which takes in a document containing a file name of one or more files to be linked and one or more explanatory notes associated with the file name of the above one or more files to be linked, displays at least a part of the one or more explanatory notes in a display and acquires a file of the file name associated with a selected explanatory note when any of the one or more explanatory notes is selected. The apparatus comprises first means for specifying a word to be displayed with emphasis in each of the one or more explanatory notes, second means for applying an emphasized display conversion to the specified word, third means for acquiring inputted voice information, fourth means for selecting a word corresponding to the inputted voice information, and fifth means for acquiring a linked file name associated with the explanatory note containing the selected word.
As used herein, the emphasized display conversion is a concept which includes a method of converting a character attribute including a color, a font and a size, etc. of a character string, inserting a parenthesis or a double quotation, etc., preceding or following a character string, and displaying a phonetic reading or a pronunciation symbol, etc., of the character string near the character string or in another predetermined place.
The present invention further comprises an information processing apparatus in which the first means compares the numbers of a plurality of words included in the explanatory note to identify a word having the largest number of characters as the word to be displayed with emphasis. The second means displays the phonetic reading of the word identified by the first means in association with display of the word for emphasized display conversion. The display control means displays the word detected by the first word detecting means with emphasis in a different color.
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Fukushima Takashi
Murakami Saeko
Nakamichi Kazuto
Black Thomas
Carstens, Yee & Cahoon
Clay A. Bruce
Do Thuy
International Business Machines Corp.
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