IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20120084637A1
• Filed: 03/18/2011
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: MIZUTANI, Kana
• Application Number:
  US13/051,158
• Publication Number:
  US 20120084637A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/587 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 21/001 Teaching or communicating with blind persons G09B21/02 - G09B21/06 take precedence

Abstract

An image processing apparatus including: a display portion which displays a web page based on web page data; a specifying section which specifies, as a specific area, an area in the displayed web page; an object obtaining section which obtains an object included in the specified specific area; a relevant-information obtaining section which obtains relevant information associated with the obtained object; a map-image-data obtaining section which obtains map image data for displaying a map image, on the basis of a specific position which is a position on the map image, which indicates a position of the object specified by the obtained relevant information; and an output section which outputs obtained the object, the obtained relevant information, and the map image to be displayed based on the obtained map image data, to the display screen such that a position mark indicating the object is marked on the specific position on the map image.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a display portion configured to display a web page on a display screen on the basis of web page data served from a server;

a specifying section configured to specify, as a specific area, an area in the web page displayed on the display screen;

an object obtaining section configured to obtain an object included in the specific area specified by the specifying section, the object at least partly constituting the web page;

a relevant-information obtaining section configured to obtain relevant information associated with the object obtained by the object obtaining section;

a map-image-data obtaining section configured to obtain map image data from a server on the basis of a specific position, wherein the map image data is data for displaying a map image including the specific position and wherein the specific position is a position on the map image, which position indicates a position of the object specified by the relevant information obtained by the relevant-information obtaining section; and

an output section configured to output the object obtained by the object obtaining section, the relevant information associated with the object and obtained by the relevant-information obtaining section, and the map image to be displayed on the basis of the map image data obtained by the map-image-data obtaining section, to the display screen such that a position mark indicating the object is marked on the specific position on the map image.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a storage portion storing the object obtained by the object obtaining section and the relevant information obtained by the relevant-information obtaining section in association with each other.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the map-image-data obtaining section is configured to obtain at least two sets of map image data where there are a plurality of the specific positions, and

wherein the map-image-data obtaining section is configured to obtain the at least two sets of map image data such that at least one of the plurality of the specific positions is included in a display area of each of map images respectively based on the at least two sets of map image data.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a scale judging section configured to judge whether a scale of the map image to be displayed on the basis of the map image data is larger than a specific scale or not,

wherein, where the scale judging section has not judged that a scale of a map image whose display area includes the plurality of the specific positions is larger than the specific scale, the map-image-data obtaining section newly obtains map image data such that at least one of the plurality of the specific positions is included in a display area of each of map images based on the map image data newly obtained and the at least two sets of map image data.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the storage portion is configured to stores the map image data obtained by the map-image-data obtaining section in association with the object obtained by the object obtaining section,

wherein the image processing apparatus further comprises:

a selecting section configured to select the plurality of the specific positions one by one; and

an inclusion judging section configured to judge whether the specific position selected by the selecting section is included in a display area of a map image of one of at least one set of the map image data stored in the storage portion, and

wherein the map-image-data obtaining section is configured to newly obtain map image data for displaying a map image whose display area includes the specific position, on condition that the inclusion judging section has judged that the specific position is not included in the display area of the map image of one of the at least one set of the map image data.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, where there are a plurality of the specific positions, the map-image-data obtaining section obtains one set of the map image data whose map-image scale has been adjusted such that the plurality of the specific positions are included in a display area of a map image based on the one set of the map image data.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a scale judging section configured to judge whether a scale of the map image to be displayed on the basis of the map image data is larger than a specific scale or not,

wherein, where the scale judging section has judged that a scale of a map image whose display area includes all the plurality of the specific positions is larger than the specific scale, the map-image-data obtaining section does not newly obtain map image data.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the relevant-information obtaining section is configured to identify a character string included in the object obtained by the object obtaining section and to obtain the identified character string as the relevant information.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an input receive section configured to receive an input of the relevant information by a user,

wherein the relevant-information obtaining section is configured to obtain, as the relevant information, the input received by the input receive section.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output section is configured to display the position mark and the object obtained by the object obtaining section in association with each other.

11. An image processing method comprising the steps of:

displaying a web page on a display screen on the basis of web page data served from a server;

specifying, as a specific area, an area in the web page displayed on the display screen;

obtaining an object included in the specified specific area, the object at least partly constituting the web page;

obtaining relevant information associated with the obtained object;

obtaining map image data from a server on the basis of a specific position, wherein the map image data is data for displaying a map image including the specific position and wherein the specific position is a position on the map image, which position indicates a position of the object specified by the relevant information; and

outputting the obtained object, the obtained relevant information associated with the object, and the map image to be displayed on the basis of the map image data associated with the object, to the display screen such that a position mark indicating the object is marked on the specific position on the map image.

12. A storage medium storing an image processing program, the image processing program comprising the steps of:

specifying, as a specific area, an area in a web page displayed on a display screen on the basis of web page data served from a server;

obtaining an object included in the specified specific area, the object at least partly constituting the web page;

obtaining relevant information associated with the obtained object;

obtaining map image data from a server on the basis of a specific position, wherein the map image data is data for displaying a map image including the specific position and wherein the specific position is a position on the map image, which position indicates a position of the object specified by the relevant information; and

outputting the obtained object, the obtained relevant information associated with the object, and the map image to be displayed on the basis of the map image data associated with the object, to the display screen such that a position mark indicating the object is marked on the specific position on the map image.

13. The storage medium according to claim 12, further comprising a step of storing the obtained object and the obtained relevant information in association with each other.

14. The storage medium according to claim 13,

wherein, in the step of obtaining the map image data, at least two sets of map image data are obtained where there are a plurality of the specific positions, and

wherein, in the step of obtaining the map image data, the at least two sets of map image data are obtained such that at least one of the plurality of the specific positions is included in a display area of each of map images respectively based on the at least two sets of map image data.

15. The storage medium according to claim 14, further comprising a step of judging whether a scale of the map image to be displayed on the basis of the map image data is larger than a specific scale or not,

wherein, where it has not been judged that a scale of a map image whose display area includes the plurality of the specific positions is larger than the specific scale, map image data is obtained in the step of obtaining the map image data, such that at least one of the plurality of the specific positions is included in a display area of each of map images based on the map image data newly obtained and the at least two sets of map image data.

16. The storage medium according to claim 14,

wherein, in the step of storing the obtained object and the obtained relevant information, the obtained map image data is stored in association with the obtained object,

wherein the storage medium further comprises the steps of:

selecting the plurality of the specific positions one by one; and

judging whether the selected specific position is included in a display area of a map image of one of at least one set of the stored map image data, and

wherein, in the step of obtaining the map image data, map image data for displaying a map image whose display area includes the specific position is newly obtained on condition that it has been judged that the specific position is not included in the display area of the map image of one of the at least one set of the map image data.

17. The storage medium according to claim 12, wherein, where there are a plurality of the specific positions, one set of the map image data whose map-image scale has been adjusted such that the plurality of the specific positions are included in a display area of a map image based on the one set of the map image data is obtained in the step of obtaining the map image data.

18. The storage medium according to claim 14, further comprising a step of judging whether a scale of the map image to be displayed on the basis of the map image data is larger than a specific scale or not,

wherein, where it has been judged that a scale of a map image whose display area includes all the plurality of the specific positions is larger than the specific scale, map image data is not newly obtained in the step of obtaining the map image data.

19. The storage medium according to claim 12, further comprising a step of receiving an input of the relevant information by a user,

wherein the received input is obtained as the relevant information in the step of obtaining the relevant information.

20. The storage medium according to claim 12, wherein the position mark and the obtained object are displayed in association with each other in the output step.