JP2003050970A - Information input device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information input device which reads writing information and speedily sends it to other equipment once the information is written. SOLUTION: The information input device 1 obtains the writing information by picking up an image by an image capturing part 12 once the writing information of characters, a figure, etc., are handwritten on an object of writing such as paper with a pen part 11 and sends the writing information that image capturing part 12 obtains to an operation port 14 and a previously specified opposite destination. The wiring information can be read and sent to the necessary transmission destination simultaneously and thus a handwritten document is speedily and easily transmitted, thereby improving its availability.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information input device, and more particularly, to an information input device which, when information is written, reads the written information and promptly transmits it to another device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the spread of computers, office work has become electronic, and, for example, in handling documents in a company, information is exchanged on an electronic document basis using a computer. Is coming.

However, there are still situations where paper-based documents are used, including meetings and meetings, and it is considered that the demand for paper-based documents will not disappear, but conversely,
In the situation where documents are digitized, it becomes very difficult to handle documents that exist only on a paper basis.

In order to digitize such a paper document, it is necessary to take in it with a scanner device, but since a conventional scanner is large and expensive, each person has a scanner device. Moreover, scanner devices are not as popular as printer devices and copier devices.

Further, conventionally, in order to send a paper document such as a handwritten document to a person or the like located at a remote place, after all handwritten sentences are written on a predetermined paper, the paper document is facsimiled. It is read and sent by facsimile to the destination facsimile machine.

[0006]

However, in such a conventional technique, since the handwritten document is read by the facsimile device and transmitted to the destination, the facsimile device is required to deliver the document to the destination. Let me read
There is a problem that it is necessary to perform a necessary transmission operation and perform a facsimile transmission, which is troublesome and takes time until the document reaches the destination.

Therefore, when the writing information such as characters and figures is written by handwriting on a writing object such as paper by handwriting, the invention according to claim 1 writes the written writing information by handwriting information acquisition means. By sending the writing information acquired by the writing information acquisition means to the designated destination by the sending means, the writing information is read at the same time as the writing and sent to the necessary destination. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an information input device with good usability by transmitting handwritten documents easily and easily.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a character recognizing means for recognizing the character information of the writing information acquired by the writing information acquiring means and converting it into a character code is provided, and the transmitting means recognizes the character recognizing means. By transmitting the character code, the character information in the writing information is transmitted as the character code to reduce the amount of information to be transmitted, and the handwritten document can be transmitted more quickly and easily, and the information with better usability can be transmitted. It is intended to provide an input device.

According to the third aspect of the invention, among the writing color identifying means for identifying the writing color of the writing information for each writing information acquired by the writing information acquiring means and the writing information acquired by the writing information acquiring means, Based on the writing color identification result of the writing color identification means, the writing information in the area where the pre-specified deletion color exists is deleted, and the writing information in the area surrounded by the pre-specified insertion color is pre-specified By providing an editing means for inserting the writing information at the insertion position of the writing information specified by the mark, the handwritten document can be freely edited without rewriting the written handwritten document once and the edited result is reflected. It is an object of the present invention to transmit writing information and to provide an information input device with better usability.

[0010]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information input device comprising: a writing means for writing handwritten information such as characters and figures on a writing object such as paper; and a writing means on the writing object. By including a writing information acquisition unit that captures and acquires the writing information that is written on, and a transmission unit that transmits the writing information acquired by the writing information acquisition unit to a predesignated destination. , Achieves the above purpose.

According to the above configuration, when the writing information such as characters and figures is handwritten on the writing object such as paper by the writing means, the written writing information is imaged by the writing information acquisition means. The writing information acquired by the writing information acquisition means is transmitted to the other party specified in advance by the transmitting means.
It is possible to read the handwritten information at the same time as the handwriting and send the handwritten information to a necessary destination, and to quickly and easily send the handwritten document, and to provide an information input device with good usability.

In this case, for example, as described in claim 2, the information input device character-recognizes character information in the writing information acquired by the writing-information acquiring means and converts it into a character code. The transmitting means may further include means, and the transmitting means may transmit the character code recognized by the character recognizing means.

According to the above construction, the character recognition means for recognizing the character information in the writing information acquired by the writing information acquisition means and converting it into the character code is provided, and the character code recognized by the character recognition means by the transmitting means. Since the text information is transmitted, the character information of the writing information can be transmitted as a character code to reduce the amount of information to be transmitted, and the handwritten document can be transmitted more quickly and easily, and the information with better usability can be transmitted. An input device can be provided.

Further, for example, as described in claim 3, the information input device includes a writing color identifying means for identifying a writing color of the writing information for each writing information acquired by the writing information acquiring means, Of the writing information acquired by the writing information acquisition means, based on the writing color identification result of the writing color identification means, the writing information in the area in which the deletion color specified in advance exists is deleted, and the insertion specified in advance is executed. Editing means for inserting the writing information in the area surrounded by the color into the insertion position of the writing information which is instructed to be inserted by a previously designated insertion mark,
May be provided.

According to the above configuration, the writing color identifying means for identifying the writing color of the writing information for each writing information acquired by the writing information acquiring means, and the writing color among the writing information acquired by the writing information acquiring means. Based on the writing color identification result of the identification means, the writing information in the area where the pre-specified deletion color exists is deleted, and the writing information in the area surrounded by the pre-specified insertion color is written with the pre-specified insertion mark. Since the editing means for inserting at the insertion position of the writing information instructed to be inserted is provided, it is possible to freely edit the handwritten document without rewriting the handwritten document once written out, and to write the writing result reflecting the edited result. Information can be transmitted, and an information input device with better usability can be provided.

[0016]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The embodiments described below are preferred embodiments of the present invention, and therefore have various technically preferable limitations. However, the scope of the present invention refers to the present invention particularly in the following description. Unless otherwise stated, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments.

1 to 5 are views showing an embodiment of the information input device of the present invention, and FIG. 1 shows an information input device 1 to which the embodiment of the information input device of the present invention is applied. FIG.

In FIG. 1, the information input device 1 is formed in a shape in which an information writing acquisition unit 2 and an operation display unit 3 are connected by a thin gripping unit 4, and as shown in FIG.
Is operated with the hand 5.

The information writing / acquisition unit 2 is provided with a pen unit 11, an image acquisition unit 12, a pen color change button 13, etc., and the pen unit (writing means) 11 is, as shown in FIG.
Writing information such as characters and figures can be handwritten on the writing target 6 such as paper.

The pen color change button 13 is a button for changing the writing color of the writing information such as characters and figures to be written by the pen unit 11 to each color such as black, red and green.
Writes the writing information such as characters and figures in the writing color changed and set by the pen color change button 13.

The image acquisition unit (writing information acquisition means) 12 is
For example, it is composed of a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) camera and the like, and the writing information such as characters and figures written on the pen unit 11 is continuously imaged at a preset cycle to acquire the writing information.

The operation display unit 3 includes an operation port unit 14, a display unit 15 and the like, and further includes a communication unit (see FIG. 3) for transmitting the acquired information.

The operation port section 14 is for inputting and operating various operation information necessary for operating the information input device 1.
The operation port unit 14 includes various keys such as a numeric keypad. For example, the operation port unit 14 inputs various information such as an address of a destination of writing information acquired by the image acquisition unit 12 and an input operation of destination information such as a telephone number. Is done.

As the display unit 15, for example, a liquid crystal display or the like is used, and various kinds of information are input to the operator from the information input device 1 such as input information input by the operation port unit 14 and writing information acquired by the image acquisition unit 12. Display and output information.

As shown in FIG. 3, the information input device 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing) in addition to the image acquisition unit 12.
Unit) 21, ROM (Read Only Memory) 22, RAM
A (Random Access Memory) 23, an image recognition section 24, an image color identification section 25, a pen color exchange mechanism section 26, a communication section 27 and the like are provided.

The ROM 22 stores various programs as the information input device 1 and necessary system data, and the RAM 23 is used as a work memory of the CPU 21 and stores various information.

The CPU 21 controls each part of the information input device 1 while utilizing the RAM 23 as a work memory based on the program in the ROM 22 to realize the function as the information input device 1.

Image recognition unit (character recognition means, editing means) 2
Under the control of the CPU 21, the CPU 4 recognizes the writing information acquired by the image acquisition unit 12. For example, the image recognition unit 24
Of the writing information acquired by the image acquisition unit 12 recognizes character information as a character and converts it into a character code.
Based on the writing color identified by the image color identification unit 25, the character to be deleted and the character to be inserted by replacing the deleted character are recognized, and the character information is edited.

The image color identification unit 25 acquires color information from the writing information acquired by the image acquisition unit 12, identifies the color of the writing information for each writing information, and outputs it to the CPU 21.

The pen color exchange mechanism section 26 exchanges the writing color by the pen section 11 with the color designated by the operator using the pen color change button 13.

The communication unit (transmitting means) 27 is wirelessly connected to a communication device 31 of a partner designated by the operation port unit 14 of the operation display unit 3 via a communication network 30, for example, the Internet network, such as a personal computer. Communicate
The writing information is transmitted to the communication device 31 of the other party.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. In the information input device 1, the destination address or telephone number is input in the operation port unit 14 of the operation display unit 3, the writing color is specified by the pen color change button 13, and as shown in FIG.
When the operator grips the gripping portion 4 by hand and writes a character or a figure on the writing target object 6 such as paper, the pen unit 11 writes the writing target object 6 on the writing target object 6 in the designated writing color. Write characters and figures according to the operation.

When the pen unit 11 writes on the writing object 6, the information input device 1 outputs the writing information to the image acquisition unit 1.
2 captures and acquires. At this time, the image acquisition unit 12
The writing information written on the writing object 6 is continuously acquired at a preset cycle and is output to the CPU 21.

The CPU 21 transfers the handwriting information acquired by the image acquisition unit 12 to the image recognition unit 24 and the image color identification unit 25,
The image color identification unit 25 acquires color information from the writing information acquired by the image acquisition unit 12, identifies the color of the writing information for each writing information, and outputs the color to the CPU 21.

The CPU 21 passes the writing information color information for each writing information identified by the image color identifying section 25 to the image recognizing section 24.

The image recognition section 24 recognizes the character information as a character in the writing information passed from the CPU 21, converts it into a character code, and based on the writing information color identified by the image color identification section 25, The character to be deleted and the character to be replaced and inserted with the deleted character are recognized, the character information is edited, and the recognition result is passed to the CPU 21.

For example, the image recognizing unit 24 displays the handwritten characters "ABCD" as shown on the left side of FIG.
When 2 is acquired and input from the CPU 21, the handwritten character is recognized and converted into a character code as shown on the right side of FIG.

Further, as shown on the left side of FIG. 5, "ABC
"GHDEF" is written by hand and "A
When "B" is deleted with the red double line as the deletion mark JM and "GH" is marked with the green insertion mark SM, the image color identification unit 25 determines the color of these writing information. The image recognition unit 24 recognizes a deleted character and a character to be replaced with the deleted character based on a preset rule. As the rule, for example, the writing information in the area where the red deletion mark JM as the deletion color is present is deleted, and the writing information in the area surrounded by the green insertion mark SM as the insertion color is inserted as the insertion mark SM. The rule is to insert at the insertion position specified by. In the case of FIG. 5, the red double line recognizes "AB" with the deletion mark JM as the deletion character, and the green color "GH" surrounded by the insertion mark SM is the deletion character. It is recognized as a character to be replaced (inserted character), and as shown on the right side of FIG. 5, the character is inserted at the insertion position designated by the insertion mark SM, "CGHDEF" is recognized as a regular handwritten character, and the CPU 21 recognizes it. Output.

The CPU 21 transmits the handwriting information recognized by the image recognition unit 24 as described above to the communication device 31 of the transmission destination specified by the operation port unit 14 of the operation display unit 3 via the communication unit 27.

As described above, the information input device 1 according to the present embodiment, when handwritten information such as characters and figures is written on the writing target 6 such as paper by the pen unit 11, the written writing is performed. Information is captured and acquired by the image acquisition unit 12, and the communication unit 27
Then, the handwriting information acquired by the image acquisition unit 12 is transmitted to the other party designated in advance.

Therefore, the handwriting information can be read at the same time as the handwriting and sent to the necessary destination, and the handwritten document can be quickly and easily sent to improve the usability.

Further, the information input device 1 of the present embodiment is
An image recognition unit 24 that recognizes character information in the writing information acquired by the image acquisition unit 12 and converts it into a character code is provided, and the communication unit 27 transmits the character code recognized by the image recognition unit 24.

Therefore, the character information of the handwritten information can be transmitted as a character code to reduce the amount of information to be transmitted, and the handwritten document can be transmitted more quickly and easily to further improve the usability. You can

Furthermore, the information input device 1 of the present embodiment
Identifies the writing color of the writing information for each writing information acquired by the image acquiring unit 12 by the image color identifying unit 25, and among the writing information acquired by the image acquiring unit 12, the writing color of the image color identifying unit 25. Based on the identification result, the image recognition unit 24 deletes the writing information in the area in which the deletion color designated in advance exists, and writes the writing information in the area surrounded by the insertion color designated in advance in the insertion mark designated in advance. It is inserted at the insertion position of the writing information for which the insertion instruction is made in.

Therefore, it is possible to freely edit the handwritten document without transmitting the handwritten document once written out again and to transmit the handwritten information reflecting the edited result, thereby further improving the usability. .

Although the invention made by the present inventor has been specifically described based on the preferred embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. It goes without saying that it is possible.

For example, in the above description, the deletion color is red, the deletion mark is a double line, and the insertion color is green, and the arrow surrounds the insertion mark. However, the deletion color is not limited to these, and the deletion color is not limited to these. The operator who operates the information input device 1 may appropriately set the deletion mark, the insertion color, and the insertion mark.

[0048]

According to the information input device of the invention described in claim 1, when handwriting information such as characters and figures is handwritten on a writing object such as paper by a writing means, the handwritten writing is performed. The writing information is captured and acquired by the writing information acquisition means, and the writing information acquired by the writing information acquisition means is transmitted to the other party designated in advance by the transmission means. The handwriting document can be quickly and easily transmitted to provide an information input device with good usability.

According to the information input device of the invention described in claim 2, character recognizing means for recognizing character information of the writing information acquired by the writing information acquiring means and converting it into a character code is provided, and the transmitting means comprises: Since the character code recognized by the character recognition means is transmitted, the character information of the writing information can be transmitted as the character code to reduce the amount of transmitted information, and the handwritten document can be transmitted more quickly and easily. It is possible to provide an information input device with better usability.

According to the information input device of the invention described in claim 3, the writing color identifying means for identifying the writing color of the writing information and the acquisition of the writing information obtaining means for each writing information obtained by the writing information obtaining means. Among the written information, based on the writing color identification result of the writing color identification means, the writing information in the area in which the designated deletion color exists is deleted, and the writing information in the area surrounded by the designated insertion color The editing means that inserts at the insertion position of the writing information specified by the insertion mark specified in advance is provided, so you can freely edit the handwritten document without rewriting the handwritten document once written. As a result, the handwriting information reflecting the edited result can be transmitted, and an information input device with better usability can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of an information input device to which an embodiment of the information input device of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a state of writing with the information input device of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a circuit block diagram of a main part of the information input device of FIG.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a recognition process of a handwritten character in the image recognition unit of FIG.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a recognition process of handwritten characters with additional correction by color in the image recognition unit of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Information input device 2 Information writing part 3 Operation display section 4 grip 5 hands 6 Writing target 11 Pen section 12 Image acquisition section 13 Pen color change button 14 Operation Port 15 Display 21 CPU 22 ROM 23 RAM 24 Image recognition unit 25 Image color identification section 26 Pen color exchange mechanism 27 Communications Department 30 communication network 31 communication equipment

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A writing means for writing handwritten information such as characters and figures on a writing object such as paper, and a writing information acquisition for picking up and acquiring the writing information written on the writing object. Means, and a transmitting means for transmitting the writing information acquired by the writing information acquiring means to a predesignated destination.
An information input device comprising: 2. The information input device further comprises character recognition means for character-recognizing character information in the writing information acquired by the writing-information acquiring means and converting it into a character code, and the transmitting means includes the character. The information input device according to claim 1, wherein the character code recognized by the recognition means is transmitted. 3. The information input device, a writing color identifying means for identifying a writing color of the writing information for each writing information acquired by the writing information acquiring means, and the writing information acquired by the writing information acquiring means. Of these, based on the writing color identification result of the writing color identification means, delete the writing information of the area where the pre-designated deletion color exists, and pre-write the writing information of the area surrounded by the pre-designated insertion color. The information input device according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising: an editing unit that inserts the writing information at a position where the writing information is instructed to be inserted with a specified insertion mark.