Image analysis – Pattern recognition – Feature extraction
Reexamination Certificate
1999-03-24
2001-12-18
Boudreau, Leo (Department: 2621)
Image analysis
Pattern recognition
Feature extraction
C382S181000, C382S190000, C382S305000, C382S306000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06332039
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FILED
The present invention relates to a structured document creating apparatus for creating a structured document to handle an original, that is, paper information, as an electronic document, and to a structured document creating method. Also, the present invention relates to a document creating apparatus with voice data for creating a document to which voice data is appended, and to a document creating method with voice data.
BACKGROUND ART
With recent developments in networks, typified by the Internet, information can be easily extracted from the network. In particular, by the structurization of information based on a HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) description used in the Internet, excellent browsers (application software for retrieving information) in the operability have become widespread. Due to this, in personal computers, there have been used various systems in which not only document information but also a voice and a moving video picture are structured and stored in an input apparatus. In this case, the structurization means to form a link structure or a hierarchical structure.
However, there exists information such as image data, which is difficult to be structured. In many cases, such information is handled as one batch file. A large amount of time must be required to structure the internal of the image.
Conventionally, for structuring the existing document described on paper, the document must be converted to characters by, for example, an optical character recognition (OCR) apparatus, or must be input from a keyboard. This requires the manpower in the operation. The existing document can be imaged by a scanner. However, there is a difficulty in dividing the image into some portions to be structured.
In recent years, there have become widespread information terminals e.g., personal computers, having a function of creating a document to which voice data is appended to link voice data to the document (hereinafter referred to as document with voice data).
The flow of the conventional procedure for creating the document with voice data will be explained with reference to FIG.
1
.
FIG. 1
is a flowchart showing the flow of the conventional procedure for creating the document with voice data.
First of all, a document to which voice data should be appended is created by the input operation of the keyboard or the document is scanned by a scanning apparatus such as the scanner. Then, the document is displayed on a screen (S
101
).
Next, the display on the screen is changed to a voice symbol table, and a voice symbol linking to voice data is selected by a mouse clicking operation (S
102
).
Voice data, which is entered in the system in advance, can be used. Or, voice data newly input by a microphone can be used.
Next, the display on the screen is changed to the object image again, and the voice symbol is pasted to the document on the screen by dragging an icon of the displayed voice symbol using the mouse (S
103
).
If there are other voice symbols to be added, the operations in S
102
to
103
are repeated (S
104
).
When the paste of all voice symbols to the object image is ended, the document with voice data is completed, and the document creating operation is ended.
In the conventional the apparatus for creating the document with voice data, however, an operator must repeat the operations in S
102
to S
103
by the number of times corresponding to the number of voice symbols to be added. Therefore, if a large number of voice symbols are present, it takes considerable time to complete the document with voice data.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
In consideration of the above-mentioned problem, the present has been made, and a first object of the present invention is to easily structure a document as image data
A second object of the present invention is to easily create a document with voice data for a short period of time even if a large number of voice symbols are present.
The present invention provides a structured document creating apparatus comprising:
an input section for inputting image data obtained by scanning an original including at least one symbol;
a symbol recognizing section for recognizing the symbol included in the image data;
a table creating section for creating a table in which specific data is made to correspond to the symbol; and
a document creating section for creating a structured document described in an HTML in which the symbol is linked to the specific data based on the table.
In the present invention, the table creating section makes the symbol included in image data of a certain original correspond to image data of the other original including at least one symbol having an element common to the symbol included in image data of the certain original in connection with a plurality of originals.
Also, the structured document creating apparatus of the present invention may further comprises:
a symbol deleting section for deleting at least one symbol included in image data so as to be output; and
a printing section for printing an output of the symbol deleting section.
Also, the structured document creating apparatus of the present invention may further comprises:
a symbol replacing section for replacing the symbol recognized by the symbol recognizing section with the other symbol stored in advance to correspond to the symbol recognized by the symbol recognizing section.
Also, in the structured document creating apparatus of the present invention, the document creating section may create the structured document in which the symbol having a specific meaning and a processing of the specific meaning are linked to each other, and an access to specific data linked to the symbol is obtained after the processing is performed when the symbol is activated.
Also, in the present invention, the symbol recognizing section recognizes the symbol in a predetermined area of an image file.
By the above-structured invention, the symbol recognizing section recognizes the symbol from the image obtained by scanning the original including the symbol. The table creating section creates the table in which specific data is made to correspond to the symbol. The document creating section creates the structured document described in the HTML in which the symbol is linked to the specific data based on the table. In the structured document, when the symbol is clicked, an access to the linked specific data can be obtained. The specific data includes, for example, image data of the original. In this case, when the symbol of a certain original is clicked, an access (jump) to image data of the other original is obtained, and the image data can be displayed. This can easily convert the existing document having the symbol formed by the stamp to the structured document.
Also, the present invention a structured document creating apparatus comprising:
an input section for inputting image data obtained by scanning an original;
a symbol adding section for adding at least one symbol to the image data:
a table creating section for creating a table in which specific data is made to correspond to the symbol; and
a document creating section for creating a structured document described in an HTML in which the symbol is linked to the specific data based on the table.
By the above-structured invention, the symbol adding section adds the symbol to the image data obtained by scanning the original. The table creating section creates the table in which the specific data is made to correspond to the symbol. The document creates the structured document described in the HTML in which the symbol is linked to the specific data based on the table. This can easily convert the existing document to the structured document.
The structured document creating apparatus of the present invention may comprise a display section for displaying input image data. By this structure, the symbol can be added as confirming the content of the image data by use of the display section.
Also, the present invention provides a communication apparatus comprising:
an input section for inputting image data obtained by scanning an
Bando Tatsuo
Kato Shitashi
Okutomi Hiroshi
Toyoda Kiyoshi
Boudreau Leo
Greenblum & Bernstein P.L.C
Mariam Daniel G.
Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems Inc.
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