ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

• US 20130159823A1
• Filed: 12/14/2012
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Tetsuren Ri, Toyoshige Nounishi
• Inventors: RI, Tetsuren, Nounishi, Toyoshige, Ozawa, Masahiro, Matsunaga, Takahisa, Nogawa, Hiroshi, Aoyama, Yasufumi, Satou, Kunikazu
• Granted Patent: US 9,547,625 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

An electronic document display apparatus includes a display unit and an analysis-and-setting unit including a determination unit and a first correction unit. The display unit displays an electronic document in display layout set by the analysis-and-setting unit. If the determination unit determines that an image related to a display-range text of a display range to be displayed by the display unit is not included in the display range, the first correction unit adds an image display region where the image is displayed to the display range so as to correct the display layout in such a way that the image and at least a portion of an image text related to the image are included in the display range. The analysis-and-setting unit changes a display state of the image displayed in the image display region on the basis of a predetermined condition.

Claims

1. An electronic document display apparatus comprising:

an analysis-and-setting unit which analyzes content of an electronic document including a text and an image, and sets display layout for the electronic document in accordance with a predetermined display format; and

a display unit which displays the electronic document in the display layout set by the analysis-and-setting unit,

the analysis-and-setting unit including;

a determination unit which determines whether or not an image related to a display-range text of a display range to be displayed by the display unit is included in the display range; and

a first correction unit which, in response to the determination unit determining that the image related to the display-range text is not included in the display range, adds an image display region where the image is displayed to the display range so as to correct the display layout in such a way that the image and at least a portion of an image text related to the image are included in the display range, wherein

the analysis-and-setting unit changes a display state of the image displayed in the image display region on the basis of a predetermined condition.

2. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in response to the image to be displayed in the image display region added to the display range being already displayed in a previous display range of the electronic document, the analysis-and-setting unit reduces the image display region so that a display size of the image to be displayed in the display range is smaller than a display size of the image displayed in the previous display range.

3. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in response to a proportion of the image display region to a maximum image display region of the display unit being more than a predetermined proportion, the analysis-and-setting unit reduces the image display region so that the proportion is equal to or less than the predetermined proportion.

4. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

in response to a plurality of images and a plurality of image texts respectively related to the images being included in the display range, the analysis-and-setting unit sets the display layout by adding the image display region where at least one image of the images is displayed to the display range, and

the display unit displays the images in successive display in which the images are displayed by turns in the image display region of the display range.

5. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the analysis-and-setting unit includes a display selection unit which selects simultaneous display in which the images are displayed simultaneously in the image display region of the display range or the successive display on the basis of a predetermined condition, and

the analysis-and-setting unit sets the display layout on the basis of the selection.

6. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 5 further comprising an operation unit which receives an instruction from a user, wherein

the display selection unit selects the simultaneous display or the successive display on the basis of the instruction received by the operation unit.

7. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 4 further comprising a switch control unit which switches the images at predetermined time intervals when the display unit displays the images in the successive display.

8. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 4 further comprising:

an operation unit which receives an instruction from a user; and

a switch control unit which switches the images on the basis of the instruction received by the operation unit when the display unit displays the images in the successive display.

9. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the determination unit determines whether or not only one of (i) the image and (ii) at least a portion of the image text related to the image is included in the display range, and

the analysis-and-setting unit includes a second correction unit which, in response to the determination unit determining that only one of (i) the image and (ii) the at least a portion of the image text related to the image is included in the display range, excludes (a) the image display region where the image is displayed or (b) an image text related to an image not included in the display range from the display range on the basis of a predetermined condition so as to correct the display layout.

10. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the analysis-and-setting unit includes a display proportion calculation unit which, in response to at least a portion of each of image texts respectively related to images being included in the display range, calculates a proportion of the image text appearing last in the display range to the display-range text of the display range, and

in response to the proportion being equal to or less than a predetermined proportion, the second correction unit corrects the display layout.

11. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the analysis-and-setting unit determines whether or not to allow the display layout corrected by the first correction unit on the basis of the predetermined display format or the display layout corrected by the second correction unit on the basis of the predetermined display format to be reflected on the display range.

12. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 9 further comprising a display control unit which performs control to reduce, redisplay or temporarily remove the image display region on the basis of a predetermined condition, wherein

in response to the display control unit performing the control, the first correction unit or the second correction unit corrects a text display region where the display-range text is displayed of the display range and the display layout.

13. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the display control unit performs the control to temporarily remove the image display region after the image is displayed in the image display region for a predetermined period of time.

14. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 12 further comprising an operation unit which receives an instruction from a user, wherein

the display control unit performs the control on the basis of the instruction received by the operation unit.

15. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a storage unit which stores a display position and the display size of the image displayed on the display unit for the first time, the display position and the display size being correlated with identification information on the image, wherein

in response to the image being included in the display range, the first correction unit sets the display position and the display size of the image on the basis of the display position and the display size stored in the storage unit.

16. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in response to the electronic document being described in a structured language, the analysis-and-setting unit analyzes the content of the electronic document, and sets the display layout.

17. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image text related to the image is a text of a paragraph in which a display command for the image is included.

18. The electronic document display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image text related to the image is a text of a paragraph in which the image is clearly mentioned.

19. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an analysis-and-setting unit which analyzes content of an electronic document including a text and an image, and sets output layout for the electronic document in accordance with a predetermined display format; and

an output unit which outputs the electronic document in the output layout set by the analysis-and-setting unit on a predetermined output range basis,

the analysis-and-setting unit including;

a determination unit which determines whether or not an image related to an output-range text of the output range to be outputted by the output unit is included in the output range; and

a first correction unit which, in response to the determination unit determining that the image related to the output-range text is not included in the output range, adds an image display region where the image is displayed to the output range so as to correct the output layout in such a way that the image and at least a portion of an image text related to the image are included in the output range, wherein

the analysis-and-setting unit changes a display state of the image displayed in the image display region on the basis of a predetermined condition.

20. An image output method comprising:

an analysis-and-setting step of analyzing content of an electronic document including a text and an image, and setting output layout for the electronic document in accordance with a predetermined display format; and

an output step of outputting the electronic document in the output layout set in the analysis-and-setting step on a predetermined output range basis,

the analysis-and-setting step including;

a determination step of determining whether or not an image related to an output-range text of the output range to be outputted in the output step is included in the output range; and

a first correction step of, in response to determining that the image related to the output-range text is not included in the output range in the determination step, adding an image display region where the image is displayed to the output range so as to correct the output layout in such a way that the image and at least a portion of an image text related to the image are included in the output range, wherein

in the analysis-and-setting step, a display state of the image displayed in the image display region is changed on the basis of a predetermined condition.

21. A computer readable recording medium storing a program allowing a computer including a display unit which displays an electronic document including a text and an image to function as

an analysis-and-setting unit which analyzes content of the electronic document, and sets display layout for the electronic document in accordance with a predetermined display format;

and

a display output unit which displays the electronic document on the display unit in the display layout set by the analysis-and-setting unit,

the analysis-and-setting unit including;

a determination unit which determines whether or not an image related to a display-range text of a display range to be displayed by the display unit is included in the display range; and

a first correction unit which, in response to the determination unit determining that the image related to the display-range text is not included in the display range, adds an image display region where the image is displayed to the display range so as to correct the display layout in such a way that the image and at least a portion of an image text related to the image are included in the display range, wherein

the analysis-and-setting unit changes a display state of the image displayed in the image display region on the basis of a predetermined condition.