Patent ID: 6037941
Filing Date: 2000-03-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A tag display control system which displays pages of a document, in which tags are attached to arbitrary end sides of the pages in arbitrary sizes, in a state that adjacent pages are partly overlapped by arranging subsequent pages for a current page at positions sequentially shifted in a predetermined direction, said system comprising:document information storage means for storing page information including description content information for each page and size information for each page, and tag information including attachment position information for each of the tags attached to arbitrary end sides of the pages and size information for each of the tags attached to each of the pages;display data generating means for generating display data for displaying the tags attached to a current page and subsequent pages based on information indicating the current page, the page information and the tag information;display data storage means for storing the display data generated by said display data generating means;determination means for determining overlap of a tag of a page with respect to another page and a tag thereof based on the display data stored in said display data storage means;change means for changing the display data of the tag of the page based on a determination result of said determination means and writing the changed tag display data into said display data storage means; andoutput means for displaying the document and the tags based on the display data stored in said display data storage means.