Patent ID: 8044958

Claim:
A material creation support device which comprises: a graph creation section which creates a graph, in which one of axes as a time axis indicates time information as a parameter, based on numeric value information comprising a plurality of numeric values, and which displays the graph on a plot area; an operation section which supports selection of any position in the displayed plot area including a plotted position on the graph or an un-plotted position on the displayed plot area; a time information acquisition section which detects a coordinate of the time axis corresponding to the selected position on the plot area, and acquires the time information according to the detected coordinate; a character information acquisition section which acquires character information whose one of attribute information related to time matches the acquired time information, from an external character data storage device which stores a plurality of character information containing predetermined time information including year/month/day information as the one of attribute information related to time; and a character information insertion section which inserts the character information acquired from the external character data storage section to the plot area or a vicinity of the plot area and displays the inserted character information together with the graph.