Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
1995-05-25
2001-11-27
Feild, Joseph H. (Department: 2176)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000, C345S215000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06324554
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a document editing system which inputs, edits, produces, prints and outputs a document and, more particularly, to an advanced image processing system in which a beautiful style is aligned on the basis of a print type set-up rule and also edits different information such as figures, images, tables, graphs, etc.
The invention also relates to an image processing system which can synthesize document data (including images, graphs, etc.) and perform the type set-up process or the like and having a function to print and output the document data and, more particularly, to an image processing system which can display or print the number of lines for every predetermined lines.
The present invention also relates to an image processing system which can edit document data (including image data or the like) and print an output or display the document data and, more particularly, to an image processing system in which a working efficiency is improved by the cutting and pasting of the data.
Further, the invention relates to an image processing system which inputs and edits document images and, more particularly, to an advanced image processing system in which a beautiful style including headlines, page number, catchwords, etc. is aligned on the basis of a type set-up rule and also different information such as figures, images, tables, graphs, etc. is edited.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Recently, the use of word processors has become widespread and the document inputting works are being mechanized and rationalized; however, the rationalization is limited to the inputting works of the character train such as in the case of the Katakana-Chinese character conversion, Romaji-Chinese character conversion, or the like. Therefore, an output apparatus of a high resolution to print a high-grade document, namely, a document which is beautiful and easy to read is not presented yet. In addition, existing output apparatuses do not have performance of what is called a type of set-up rule in the print field, such as a device of arrangement of characters or the like. Therefore, it is difficult to make a document in excess of a constant print level.
On one hand, in the print field, a great amount of know-how of type set-up depends on the manual works such as arrangement of characters, style of column set-up, and the like which have been accumulated as knowledge of specialists. Complicated steps are required to make a high-grade document, resulting in high cost. Particularly, the produced document has a problem such that it can be proofread only after it has once been outputted as a form of a galley proof or the like and it is repeatedly corrected, so that a long step is repeated.
For example, when a two-sided output is now considered, the arrangement of body, catchwords, Nombre, and the like is not decided in consideration of symmetry with respect to the front side and back side of a print or recording paper or to the binding margins of both of right and left double spread pages when they are bound. On one hand, type set-up machines which are used in the print field do not automatically perform those processes; therefore, it is necessary to input complicated development (print) position parameters for every page.
In addition, hitherto, there has not been presented an apparatus which adds the line number of character train, namely, what is called a line counter to a document and outputs the document when a document is inputted, edited, and displayed or printed and outputted.
Although an apparatus having functions to cut and paste data has been conventionally presented, it is difficult to discriminate from which data the cut data was taken out because of an i-con of the constant style. With respect to data to be pasted as well, it is difficult to discriminate which data should be pasted to obtain a desired data.
For example, in the case where tables, photographs, figures, etc. are laid out in sentences with information processing apparatuses for making a document or the like, it is difficult to make the document since the explanatory sentences, comments, or the like to describe those image data are influenced when the sentences are reedited.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an information processing system in which addition information to be added to information which is inputted from input means is set and both of the input information and the addition information can be easily handled, in consideration of the above-mentioned points.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an image processing system in which methods of typesetting and its arrangement and print format based on the print type set-up rule such as definition of format parameters, table work, small work, etc. are displayed on a display, and a method of editing a document rapidly can also be realized using a keyboard and a pointing device with respect to an arbitrary area on the display screen or an area which is formed in that area by a frame spacing in consideration of the conventional technologies.
Another object of the invention is to provide an image processing system comprising: output means for printing at least a document or images on a page unit basis; control means for developing the document in accordance with a print type set-up rule by the use of format parameters such as a print format, a column set-up style, and the like which are preliminarily defined to constitute the document which is outputted by the output means; display means for displaying the document whose style was coordinated equivalently to the print output; and editing means for performing document edition such as character input, movement, copy, insertion, deletion, replacement, etc. with regard to the document displayed by the display means by the use of a keyboard and a pointing device, and thereby always reflecting the print state after conversion.
Still another object of the invention is to provide an image processing system having lay-out processing means for frame spacing, pasting, frame movement, frame deletion, cut, etc. in order to synthesize information such as figures, image tables, graphs, etc. which are different from characters and being capable of displaying and editing document data with a style which is equal to the print output with regard to those synthesized documents.
Still another object of the invention is to provide an image processing system in which the document edition such as character input, movement, copy, insertion, deletion, replacement, etc. with regard to the document on the display, and the command processes regarding the format and type set-up, and the like can be executed by any one of a keyboard and a Mouse.
Still another object of the invention is to provide an image processing system in which when a document is outputted, the line number is added to the document for every predetermined lines and then the document is outputted, in consideration of the above-mentioned points.
Still another object of the invention is to provide an image processing system in which when data which mixedly includes document data and image data is outputted, a line counter is accurately added for every predetermined number of lines without counting the area of the image data.
Still another object of the invention is to provide an image processing system in which a virtual window where the cut data is pasted is provided, and both information indicating from which data the cut data was taken out and information representative of the kind of the cut data are displayed in the virtual window so that this information can be discriminated, in consideration of the above-mentioned points.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a method of editing a document at a high response speed whereby methods of typesetting and its arrangement and its print format, etc. based on a type set-up rule such as definition of format parameters, headlines, page numbers, catchwords, etc. are displayed on a display an
Furukawa Fumio
Hamada Masaka
Hasegawa Taketo
Ina Kenzoh
Ishizawa Yasuhisa
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Feild Joseph H.
Fitzpatrick ,Cella, Harper & Scinto
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