JP2005269136A - Document editing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a working environment which can be summarized and edited into a new document without performing a complicated computer operation for summarizing and editing as a state of high list nature displaying and holding document electronic data on a form P or electronic paper EP. <P>SOLUTION: An image reading means 10 image reads a medium P to which a mark L for specifying document parts d1, d2 and d3 and identification information C of the document are attached, specifies the mark specified parts d1, d2 and d3 in each document image read by a partial specifying means 2. A data acquisition means 3 acquires the electronic data of the document corresponding to the mark designated part specified based on the document identification information C from a data holding means 6, and an editing means 4 generates an edited document ND in which a plurality of document parts d1, d2 and d3 are arranged in a predetermined layout based on the document part data. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a document editing technique that can edit electronic data constituting a document using a document in which electronic data constituting the document is displayed and held on various media such as paper and electronic paper. The present invention relates to a document editing technique for compiling and editing a document or document part into a new document.

  Documents are composed of various electronic media data such as documents and images created by a computer, images taken with a digital camera, and images acquired from a network. Such documents are displayed on the screen or printed out. In addition to being browsed by the user, it is also used for so-called electronic editing in which document electronic data is edited by editing and editing software of a computer to create a new document.

In electronic editing, a document is displayed as an image on a display screen of a computer, and a user can input various commands to the document (electronic data) by inputting a command from an operation means such as a mouse or a keyboard. In this editing work, a cut / paste operation is also performed in which a part of a document is cut and pasted to a new document. For example, only necessary parts of a plurality of documents are extracted and combined into one document. Cut and paste work is an indispensable editing work.
Conventionally, an editing operation for combining a plurality of documents and document components into a new document is performed by a user operating a computer to edit document electronic data.

However, in the editing operation of the electronic document data by the computer operation as described above, there is a problem that the workability is extremely poor due to restrictions of computer hardware.
Specifically, since the range of the document displayed on the display screen of the computer is limited by the size of the screen, when trying to edit a necessary part in the document, in order to display the part on the screen The scrolling operation must be repeated. In addition, when editing a plurality of documents, it is necessary to switch between the documents displayed on the screen, and even if a plurality of windows displaying different documents are displayed on the screen, they are displayed in an overlapping manner. An operation to switch the window to the front of the screen must be performed.

In order to reduce the operation burden in this way, conventionally, a document to be edited is printed out on a paper medium (paper) so that the contents of the document can be listed, and the user is viewing the printed document. Work such as editing document electronic data by operating a computer is performed.
However, in such editing work, the printed output document becomes garbage after the editing work and wastes paper resources, and a lot of printed materials overflow and the office work environment is cluttered. There was a problem. Even when such a printout is performed, the electronic data editing process is performed by the user operating the computer, so that complicated operations such as scrolling, cutting and pasting have to be performed. . Furthermore, when several users gather to perform editing work, only one user operates the computer. Therefore, the editing intention of each user can be smoothly communicated to the operator user for editing work. It was difficult to proceed.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described conventional circumstances, and allows documents to be displayed and held on these media by optical writing electronic writing processing on electronic paper, printing on paper media, and the like without performing complicated computer operations. The purpose of this is to realize the document editing process with a high listability.

In the present invention, in order to extract a part in a document displayed and held on a medium such as paper or electronic paper and edit it as a new document, the data holding means holds electronic data of the document displayed and held on the medium. Then, the image reading means performs image reading processing on a medium to which a mark for specifying a document part and identification information of the document is attached, and the part specifying means reads the mark from each of the plurality of media. A plurality of documents from which the document editing unit has acquired the electronic data of the document portion corresponding to the mark designation portion specified based on the document identification information whose image is read by the data acquisition unit. Multiple document parts based on partial data To generate the edited document which arranged the door.
Here, the document identification information may be attached in such a manner that an image can be read together with a mark for designating a document portion by a method such as displaying and recording a code symbol on the surface of the medium.

  In the present invention, particularly, display function means for displaying and holding an image of a document, memory for holding identification information of the displayed and held document, and wireless communication means for wirelessly transmitting the document identification information held in the memory When a document is displayed and held on the electronic paper, the document identification information can be received wirelessly. That is, the data holding means holds the electronic data of the document displayed and held on the electronic paper, the image reading means performs image reading processing on the electronic paper with a mark designating the document portion, and the wireless receiving means performs image reading. The identification information of the display document is received from the electronic paper to be read, the part specifying unit specifies the mark designation part from each document that has been read from a plurality of media, and is specified based on the document identification information received by the data acquisition unit An electronic document in which a plurality of document parts are arranged in a predetermined layout based on the electronic data of the plurality of parts obtained by the document editing means is acquired from the data holding means, and the electronic data of the document part corresponding to the designated mark designation part is obtained. Generate.

Therefore, according to the present invention described above, for example, in an operation of cutting out a part in a document and creating a scrapbook, a user places a surrounding line or an underline on a necessary part in the document displayed on the medium. Thus, the electronic document data can be edited by simply performing the operation of reading the image without performing complicated computer operations for batch editing. In addition, this editing work can be performed with the document to be edited having a high listability. Furthermore, even when several users perform editing work, the editing intention of each user can be reflected as it is. That is, according to the present invention, it is possible to realize a work environment in which the user edits the electronic document data by hand.
The document editing means can generate an edited document by arranging document parts in various layouts according to settings. For example, a plurality of document parts can be laid out and edited in the order according to the order of image reading. If the document is generated, the user can intuitively grasp the arrangement relationship in the edited document generated by the image reading operation.

  In the present invention, in order to collectively edit a document displayed and held on a plurality of media such as paper and electronic paper into a new document, the data holding means holds the electronic data of the document displayed and held on the medium, and reads the image. The means performs image reading processing of the document displayed and held on the medium with a reading area for drawing the page of the document and the identification information of the document, and the position specifying means specifies the position of the image read document relative to the reading area, and acquires data. The means obtains the electronic data of the corresponding document from the data holding means based on the document identification information read from the image, and the document editing means reads the document read from the plurality of media based on the obtained plurality of document electronic data. Each identified To generate the edited document that was arranged according to location.

In the present invention, particularly, display function means for displaying and holding an image of a document, memory for holding identification information of the displayed and held document, and wireless communication means for wirelessly transmitting the document identification information held in the memory When a document is displayed and held on the electronic paper, the document identification information can be wirelessly received. That is, the data holding means holds the electronic data of the document displayed and held on the electronic paper, the image reading means reads the document displayed and held on the electronic paper with a reading area for drawing the page of the document, and the wireless receiving means sets the image The identification information of the display document is received from the electronic paper to be read, the position specifying unit specifies the position with respect to the reading area of the document whose image has been read, and the electronic data of the corresponding document based on the document identification information received by the data acquisition unit Is obtained from the data holding means, and based on the electronic data of the plurality of documents obtained by the document editing means, an edited document in which the documents read from the plurality of media are respectively arranged according to the specified positions is generated.
The reading area for drawing the page of the image reading means may be in any form that can be recognized by the user, for example, by setting a mark or a surrounding line on the platen of the scanner.

  Therefore, according to the above-described present invention, for example, in a task of creating a scrapbook by collecting a plurality of documents, the user simply reads an image of the document displayed on the medium at a desired arrangement position. A plurality of document electronic data can be collectively edited by designating arrangement positions in a new document without performing complicated computer operations for batch editing. In addition, this editing work can be performed with the document to be edited having a high listability. Furthermore, even when several users perform editing work, the editing intention of each user can be reflected as it is. That is, according to the present invention, it is possible to realize a work environment in which the user edits the electronic document data by hand.

  In the present invention, in order to extract a portion in a document displayed and held on a medium, specify a layout in the document, and collectively edit it into a new document, a data holding unit displays electronic data of the document displayed and held on the medium. A mark designation portion in a document that holds data, the image reading unit performs image reading processing on a medium with a mark for specifying a document portion and identification information of the document, and the portion specifying unit reads the image from the medium. The position specifying means specifies the position of the image portion of the document part read from the image, and the data acquisition means specifies the electronic position of the document part corresponding to the mark designation part specified based on the document identification information read from the image. The data is acquired from the data holding means, and the document editing means Based on the obtained plurality of document section data was to generate an edit documents arranged in accordance with each determined location a plurality of document portions.

  In the present invention, particularly, display function means for displaying and holding an image of a document, memory for holding identification information of the displayed and held document, and wireless communication means for wirelessly transmitting the document identification information held in the memory In the case where the document is displayed and held on the electronic paper, the data holding unit holds the electronic data of the document displayed and held on the electronic paper, and the image reading unit corresponds to the electronic paper on which the mark for designating the document part is attached. The image receiving process is performed, the identification data of the display document is received from the electronic paper whose image is read by the wireless receiving means, the mark specifying portion is specified from the document whose image is read from the medium, and the position specifying means is the image Specify the position of the scanned document part relative to the reading area. Then, the electronic data of the document part corresponding to the mark designation part specified based on the document identification information received by the data acquisition unit is acquired from the data holding unit, and the document editing unit is based on the acquired electronic data of the plurality of documents. Then, an edited document is generated in which document portions read from a plurality of media are arranged according to specified positions.

  Therefore, according to the present invention described above, for example, in an operation of creating a scrapbook by collecting a plurality of document parts, a user marks a desired part in a document displayed on a medium at a desired arrangement position. A plurality of document electronic data can be collectively edited by designating the arrangement position in a new document without performing a complicated computer operation for batch editing only by reading the image. In addition, this editing work can be performed with the document to be edited having a high listability. Furthermore, even when several users perform editing work, the editing intention of each user can be reflected as it is. That is, according to the present invention, it is possible to realize a work environment in which the user edits the electronic document data by hand.

Here, in the present invention, the document editing unit enlarges or reduces the document or the document part according to the page size of the generated edited document and arranges the document or the document part in the edited document in an orderly manner. It is preferable to make it possible.
Further, in the present invention, it is only necessary to specify a marked part in a document using a known image recognition processing technique and extract a document electronic data part corresponding to the specified range. In the case of structured data in which electronic data of a plurality of parts constituting a document are associated, the extraction process of the parts can be performed more easily.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to edit a plurality of document electronic data into a new document without setting a list of documents to be edited with high listability and without performing complicated computer operations for batch editing. It is possible to realize a work environment in which data is edited by the user's hand.

The present invention will be specifically described based on examples.
FIG. 1 shows a document editing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, documents D1 and D2 to be edited are printed and displayed on paper P as a medium, and the document is displayed. The inside part is extracted and edited into a new document ND.
In the present invention, various media can be used as long as they can display and hold a document and identification information of the document. Therefore, electronic paper EP described later can also be used.

In the editing operation, the documents D1 and D2 to be edited are printed on the paper P by a printer (not shown) based on the document electronic data, and the user selects desired portions d1, d2 and d3 in the documents D1 and D2. An encircling line L is written on the paper P for marking.
In the printing process by the printer, a barcode C including an ID code for identifying the document together with the documents D1 and D2 is printed on the paper P at a predetermined position on the paper P. As will be described later, Correspondence with electronic data of the document identified and held by the ID code is attached. The document identification information may be a two-dimensional code in another form such as a QR code, a code number, or the like. In short, information that associates a printed document with its electronic data is obtained by image recognition processing. Anything can be acquired.

  Here, in the example shown in the figure, three parts d1, d2, and d3 are designated by the mark L from the two documents D1 and D2 to be edited. However, in the present invention, one or more documents to be edited are specified. The number may be any number, and the number of parts to be marked from the document may be any number of 1 or more. In the illustrated example, the extraction part is specified by surrounding the part in the document with a surrounding line L. However, in the present invention, the sentence of the extraction part is underlined, and the other part is filled in while leaving the extraction part. Various marking methods can be employed, such as covering the extracted portion or concealing the extracted portion by applying tape or concealing the tape. Any method can be used as long as the mark designation portion can be specified.

A scanner 10 as an image reading unit is connected to the layout editing apparatus 1 that forms the core of the system of this example, and after the user marks a desired portion, the document D1, printed on the paper P by the scanner 10, D2 is image-read.
The layout editing apparatus 1 includes a part specifying unit 2, a data acquiring unit 3, an editing unit 4, and an output unit 5 by causing a computer to execute a program for executing processing according to the present invention. Data holding means (database memory) 6 is provided for identifying and holding a plurality of document data used for printing by the printer by ID codes.

  The part specifying unit 2 analyzes the images of the documents D1 and D2 read by the scanner 10 and specifies the parts d1, d2, and d3 designated by the mark L. In the case of a special mark set in advance as a designation mark, this identification processing may be performed by identifying the special mark from the image and identifying the designated portion. In some cases, for example, an image of the barcode C read together with the documents D1 and D2 by the scanner 10 is recognized and converted into an ID code, and electronic document data corresponding to the ID code is acquired from the data holding unit 6, The mark designation portions d1, d2, and d3 may be specified by comparing the document image based on the document electronic data and the document image read by the scanner 10.

The data acquisition unit 3 acquires electronic data of the mark designation parts d1, d2, and d3 specified by the part specification unit 2. This acquisition process is performed by acquiring the corresponding document electronic data from the data holding means 6 using an ID code, and extracting the electronic data corresponding to the mark designation portions d1, d2, and d3. The document image based on the document electronic data may be compared with the document image read by the scanner 10, and the portion in the document electronic data corresponding to the mark designation portion may be specified and extracted.
Here, as shown in FIG. 7, when the document electronic data is structured in a structured data format such as HTML, the document electronic data is an entity of a plurality of parts (parts) constituting the document in a document form. Since it is a structure in which data is associated, it is possible to easily extract a portion in the document electronic data corresponding to the mark designation portion by extracting data of the mark designated portion (part).

The editing unit 4 generates an edited document ND in which the document parts d1, d2, and d3 are arranged in a predetermined layout based on the electronic data of the plurality of mark designation parts d1, d2, and d3 acquired by the data acquiring unit 3. To do. In the illustrated example, electronic data of a new document ND in which document portions d1, d2, and d3 are arranged in order in accordance with the order in accordance with the image reading in the order of D1 and D2 is created.
Then, the electronic data of the new document ND generated by the editing unit 4 is output by the output unit 5. In this output process, the electronic data of the new document ND is stored with the ID code attached to the data holding means 6, the new document ND is displayed and output on the screen of the display device, and the new document ND is printed out by the printer. It may be in any form such as.

Here, FIGS. 8 to 10 show specific layout arrangement examples of the mark designation portion according to the reading order of the images.
In the example shown in FIG. 8, when images of three documents D1, D2, and D3 to be edited are read in order, the edited document in which mark designation portions d1, d2, and d3 included in these documents are arranged in the reading order. ND is generated. Note that the scanning method for image reading can be performed by sequentially loading three document sheets onto the platen of the scanner 10 and reading the images one by one, or placing three document sheets on the platen of the scanner 10 simultaneously. The image may be read continuously.

In the example shown in FIG. 9, when there are documents D2 that do not include a mark designation portion among the three documents D1, D2, and D3 to be edited, when these three documents D1, D2, and D3 are sequentially read, The document D2 is ignored, and an edited document ND is generated in which the mark designation portions d1, d2, and d3 are arranged in the reading order.
In the example shown in FIG. 10, when the user performs layout setting on the editing unit 5, the mark designation portions d1, d2, and d3 arranged in the edited document ND can be changed between vertical alignment and horizontal alignment. In the present invention, it is needless to say that the layout can be arranged in various modes other than the above example by setting the arrangement processing by the editing unit 5, and further, the editing can be performed by setting the editing unit 5. If the document ND form (paper surface) has room, the mark designation part is enlarged and arranged, or if the number of mark designation parts is large and the edit document ND form has no room, the mark designation part is reduced. May be arranged.

  Therefore, according to the above-described document editing system, the user simply collects the necessary parts d1, d2, and d3 in the documents D1 and D2 displayed on the paper P by adding the enclosing lines L to read the images. The document electronic data can be edited to generate new document electronic data ND by an operation such that the user manually edits the document electronic data without performing complicated computer operations for editing.

FIG. 2 shows a document editing system according to a second embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, documents D1 and D2 to be edited are written and held on an electronic paper EP as a medium, and the document is edited. Are extracted and compiled into a new document ND. In the present embodiment, the layout editing apparatus 1 includes a wireless communication device 11 that performs wireless communication with the electronic paper EP.
In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the part similar to the example shown in FIG. 1, and the overlapping description is abbreviate | omitted.

First, electronic paper EP used in the present embodiment will be described with reference to examples shown in FIGS. 12 to 15 and examples shown in FIGS.
The electronic paper EP is roughly classified according to the display information recording method, and includes an optical writing type shown in FIGS. 12 to 15 and a self-rewriting type shown in FIGS. It is an information display holding device that is as thin as paper as it is called electronic paper.

FIG. 12A shows the optical writing electronic paper EP viewed from the front, and FIG. 12B shows the optical writing electronic paper EP viewed from the side. The electronic paper EP shown in the figure has a display unit 22 for displaying and holding an information image such as a document and a processing unit 23 for controlling processing of electronic data, and is incorporated in the processing unit 23 in FIG. The various functional parts are also shown.
The optically writable electronic paper EP is a flexible thin type such as an A4 size paper, for example, and a processing unit 23 is provided on one piece of the display unit 22 that occupies most of the area. In addition, the magnitude | size of the display part 22 is arbitrary and shall be a magnitude | size according to a use.

As will be described later, the processing unit 23 includes an electrode 24 for applying a voltage for driving the display unit 22, a wireless unit 25 for wireless communication with the outside, a memory 26 for holding electronic data in a readable and writable manner, and a wireless unit 25. And a battery 27 for supplying driving power for the memory 26 is provided.
The optical writing type electronic paper EP transmits / receives ID code data of a document to be displayed and held by wireless communication with an external wireless device such as the wireless communication device 11 provided in the layout editing apparatus 1 through the wireless unit 25, and The ID code data can be held in the memory 26.

For example, the optical writing type electronic paper EP displays a document image based on electronic data on the liquid crystal panel 20 as shown in FIG. 13, and the optical writing type electronic paper EP is applied to the electrode 44 while applying a voltage from an external power source. By irradiating light on the liquid crystal panel 20, the document image displayed on the liquid crystal panel 20 can be transferred to the display unit 22 and displayed and held.
Note that the written content image of the document paper is also transferred to the display unit 22 and displayed by irradiating the optical writing type electronic paper EP with light applied to the electrode 24 while applying voltage to the electrode 24. In short, the optical writable electronic paper EP transfers the image information projected by applying a voltage to the electrode 24 to the display unit 22, and the image is applied even after the voltage applied to the electrode 24 is removed. It has a function to keep information in a display state.

  As shown in FIG. 15 showing the cross-sectional structure of the display unit 22, the optical writing type electronic paper EP includes an organic photoconductive material layer (organic photoconductive layer) 30 and a liquid crystal display material layer used in a copying machine. (Microencapsulated cholesteric liquid crystal layer) 31 is combined, these layers are sandwiched between a pair of front and back transparent electrodes 32, and this laminate is sandwiched between a pair of front and back transparent substrate films 33. In this configuration, the cholesteric liquid crystal layer 31 reflects white light, and the light passes through the liquid crystal layer 31 and is absorbed by the black layer 34 provided between the cholesteric liquid crystal layer 31 and the organic photoconductive layer 30. Black display monochrome image display is possible. Furthermore, since cholesteric liquid crystal has a characteristic of interference-reflecting color light according to the helical pitch, color display can be realized with a simple structure by forming the cholesteric liquid crystal layer 31 by laminating liquid crystals having different helical pitches. It is also possible.

Then, as shown in FIG. 14 showing the operation principle of the display unit 22, the optical writing type electronic paper EP displays, for example, a document image to be transferred to a dimming element panel (light emitting panel) 35 for image writing, and displays the display unit. When a voltage is applied to the electrode 24 and a voltage is applied to the electrode 24, the intensity of light is instantaneously converted into a reflection density and the projection image is held. The image information held in the display unit 22 can be erased by applying an erasing voltage to the electrode 24, and the optical writing type electronic paper EP can be reused many times by repeating writing and erasing. Note that the optical writing type electronic paper EP does not perform such an erasing process, but applies the voltage to the electrode 24 and projects a new image as described above to thereby store the image information held in the display unit 22. Can be overwritten and can be reused again and again by such overwriting.
Therefore, the optical writing type electronic paper EP has the property of holding the image information transferred by the projection of the image without power supply in addition to the property of being thin and flexible like paper, so that it is used for a printer or a copying machine. It is a display recording medium that can be used like paper and can be reused repeatedly.

  Further, since the optical writing type electronic paper EP of this example includes a wireless communication function 25 and a memory function 26 in addition to a document image display holding function by the display unit 22, writing of a document image to the display unit 22 is possible. Accordingly, the ID code data of the document is received by the wireless unit 25 and held in the memory 26. When the document displayed and held on the display unit 22 is read by the scanner 10 in the editing process, the memory 26 is used. The ID code data of the document held in the wireless communication unit 25 can be transmitted by the wireless unit 25 and received by the wireless communication device 11.

FIG. 16A shows the self-writing electronic paper EP in front view, and FIG. 16B shows the self-writing electronic paper EP in side view. The illustrated electronic paper EP includes a display unit 42 that displays and holds document images and a processing unit 43 that controls processing of electronic data. FIG. Is also represented.
The self-writing type electronic paper EP, like the optical writing type electronic paper EP, is a flexible thin display recording apparatus having a size like, for example, A4 size paper, and a piece of the display unit 42 that occupies most of the area. A processing unit 43 is provided. As in the case of the optical writing type electronic paper, the size of the display unit 42 is set according to the application.

As will be described later, the processing unit 43 includes a driver 44 for driving the display unit 42, a wireless unit 45 for wireless communication with the outside, a memory 46 for holding electronic data in a readable and writable manner, a driver 44, a wireless unit 45, and a memory 46. An operation unit 48 such as a battery 47 for supplying the driving power and a button for receiving an operation input for displaying image information by the driver 44 is provided.
The self-rewritable electronic paper EP can transmit and receive electronic data by wirelessly communicating with an external wireless device such as the wireless communication device 11 by the wireless unit 45, and can hold the electronic data in the memory 46.

Further, the self-writing electronic paper EP is different from the optical writing electronic paper in that the driver 44 displays image information on the display unit 42 based on the electronic data held in the memory 46, and The image information to be displayed can be switched and changed in accordance with an operation input, and the display unit 42 has a function to keep the image information in the display state even when the driving power of the driver 44 is removed.
As shown in FIG. 18 showing the cross-sectional structure of the display unit 42, the self-writing type electronic paper EP has fine colored particles (white particles 51 and black particles 52 in the illustrated example) used as toner in the copying machine. Is enclosed between a pair of front and back electrodes 53 whose surface side is transparent, and is sandwiched between a pair of front and back film substrates 54 whose surface side is transparent at least. An air layer is formed between the electrode layers 53 so that the colored particles 51 and 52 can freely move. In addition, the matrix-like electrode layer 53 is provided with an insulating layer 55 for preventing contact with the colored particles 51 and 52. It has been. Note that a color display can be realized with a simple structure by using a color filter.

Then, as shown in FIG. 17 showing the operation principle of the display unit 42, the self-writing type electronic paper EP is in a state in which no voltage is applied to the electrode 53 (however, the electrode 53 is charged to the polarity at the previous driving). The negatively charged white particles 51 accumulate on the back side, while the positively charged black particles 52 accumulate on the front side, and the display unit 42 is viewed from the front side. Becomes a black state. Then, when the electrode polarity of the required part of the matrix corresponding to the image information displayed by the operation of the driver 44 based on the electronic data is reversed, the positional relationship between the white particles 51 and the black particles 52 is switched, and the display unit 42 is switched. The image information based on the contrast between the white particles 51 and the black particles 52 is displayed. By operating the driver 44 based on different electronic data, the image information displayed on the display unit 42 can be switched depending on the contrast between the white particles 51 and the black particles 52 and can be reused many times. .
Therefore, the self-rewritable electronic paper EP has the property of holding the image information displayed and held on the display unit 42 without a power source in addition to the property of being thin and flexible like paper, so that it can be used like paper. It is a recording medium.

  Furthermore, since the self-writing electronic paper EP of this example includes a wireless communication function 45 and a memory function 46 in addition to the document image display holding function by the display unit 42, the electronic document EP to be displayed on the display unit 42 is displayed. When data is received from the wireless unit 45 and written to the memory 46, a document ID code corresponding to these documents is also received and written and held in the memory 46, and the document displayed and held on the display unit 42 in editing processing is stored. When the scanner 10 reads an image, the ID code data of the document held in the memory 46 can be transmitted by the wireless unit 45 and received by the wireless communication device 11.

Regardless of the optical writing type or self writing type, the wireless communication function such as the wireless unit 25 (45), the memory 26 (46), the battery 27 (47), etc. May be configured as another wireless IC tag, and the wireless IC tag may be attached to electronic paper to have the same configuration as described above. In the case of a wireless IC tag, the battery 27 (47) may be a capacitor that holds the electromotive force from the tag reader.
In addition, the present invention can be applied to electronic papers other than formats such as self-writing type electronic paper and optical writing type electronic paper. For example, the electronic paper can be loaded into an external rewriting device and the display unit can be self-writing type. A format in which content images are electronically written may be used. That is, the self-writing electronic paper is an example of an electronic paper that does not require an external image writing device, and the optical writing electronic paper is an example of an electronic paper that requires an external image writing device. .
In addition, as the display section 2 (12) of the electronic paper, a liquid crystal having a memory property typified by a ferroelectric liquid crystal, an electrophoretic method in which charged particles are moved to switch a display, and charged particles are rotated. Alternatively, a particle rotation method for switching the display, a magnetophoresis method for switching the display by moving particles by magnetism, a thin battery-driven thin liquid crystal or an EL element may be used.

In the second embodiment shown in FIG. 2, during editing, the documents D1 and D2 to be edited are displayed and held on the display unit (22, 42) of the electronic paper EP by a writing process corresponding to the format of the electronic paper EP to be used. And the ID code of the document displayed and held in the memory (26, 46).
Then, the user marks desired portions d1, d2, and d3 in the documents D1 and D2 by writing enclosing lines L on the electronic paper EP, and reads the image displayed and held on the electronic paper EP by the scanner 10. Let Here, writing of the mark L on the electronic paper EP can be performed in the same manner as on the paper.

In response to this image reading process, the wireless communication device 11 communicates with the electronic paper on the scanner 10 and receives the ID code of the display document held by the electronic paper EP from the electronic paper EP. For example, if the platen of the scanner 10 is set as the communication area, the document ID code can be received from the electronic paper EP from which the image is read.
Also in the second embodiment, the mark specifying portions d1, d2, and d3 are specified by the portion specifying means 2, the document electronic data corresponding to the mark specifying portions d1, d2, and d3 are extracted by the data acquiring means 3, and the editing means 4 The electronic data creation process of the new document ND with the document parts d1, d2, and d3 by the above is substantially the same as in the first embodiment, but in the second embodiment, the document ID code is directly received as data and an image is received. Since the electronic document data to be read is identified, an image recognition process such as a barcode can be omitted.

  Therefore, according to the document editing system of the second embodiment, the electronic paper EP is used in the same manner as the paper P, and the necessary parts d1, d2, d2 and d2 in the documents D1 and D2 displayed and held on the electronic paper EP by the user. The user edits the electronic document data by manually editing the electronic document data, which does not require complicated computer operations for batch editing, simply by adding an encircling line L to d3 and reading the image. Thus, new document electronic data ND can be generated.

FIG. 3 shows a document editing system according to a third embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, a plurality of documents to be edited are printed and displayed on a plurality of sheets P as media, respectively. A plurality of documents displayed and held on the paper P (in this example, the document D1 of the content image “A” and the document D2 of the content image “B”) are collectively edited according to the image reading positional relationship of each paper P Thus, a new document ND in which these document contents are collected is generated.
In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the part similar to the example shown in FIG. 1, and the overlapping description is abbreviate | omitted.

In this embodiment, unlike the first and second embodiments, instead of extracting and editing a document portion, the contents of each document are extracted and edited as they are for a plurality of documents. For this reason, the part specifying means 2 is omitted.
Also, in this embodiment, unlike the first and second embodiments, each document is arranged in an image reading area by the scanner 10 (in this example, an area drawn on the platen 10a of the scanner 10). Accordingly, in order to perform layout arrangement for batch editing, the layout editing apparatus 1 includes position specifying means 7 for specifying the positional relationship of each document in the image reading process.

In this embodiment, the user causes the scanner 10 to read an image of the documents D1 and D2 printed on the paper P.
The position specifying means 7 specifies the position of each document D1, D2 read by the scanner 10 in the image reading area. As indicated by a broken line in FIG. 3, this specifying process is performed by using the platen 10a of the scanner as a reading area and analyzing and specifying the position where the document is placed in the area. The document ID code (barcode) C attached to each document by this image reading is also read together with the document and subjected to image analysis, and each identified document is identified by the ID code.

Then, the data acquisition means 3 acquires the electronic data of each document D1, D2 specified by the position specification means 7 from the data holding means 6 based on the ID code C, and then the editing means 4 3 is generated based on the electronic data of the plurality of documents D1 and D2 acquired in step 3, and the documents D1 and D2 are laid out in the positional relationship at the time of image reading specified by the position specifying unit 7.
In the illustrated example, the document D1 is positioned at the upper left of the image reading area 10a to read the image, and the document D2 is positioned to the lower right of the image reading area 10a to read the image. ”) Is arranged at the upper left of the page which is the document form, and electronic data of a new document ND in which the document D2 (content“ B ”) is arranged at the lower right of the page is created.

  Therefore, according to the document editing system of the third embodiment, the user only needs to read the images of the documents D1 and D2 displayed on the paper P, and the documents D1 and D2 are collectively edited according to the arrangement relationship in which the images are read. The user can edit the document electronic data without performing a complicated computer operation by hand, but can edit the document electronic data by work to generate new document electronic data ND.

FIG. 4 shows a document editing system according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, a plurality of documents to be edited are recorded and displayed on a plurality of electronic paper EPs as media, respectively, Positional relationship of image reading of each electronic paper EP with a plurality of documents displayed and held in different electronic paper EP (in this example, the document D1 of the content image “A” and the document D2 of the content image “B”) The new document ND that summarizes the contents of the document is generated.
The same parts as those in the example shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 are denoted by the same reference numerals and redundant description is omitted, and the electronic paper EP is a display recording apparatus as described above.

In this embodiment, the same processing as in the third embodiment is performed to collectively edit a plurality of document electronic data and generate new document electronic data ND. In this embodiment, each electronic paper EP is stored in the memory (26, 46). Since the ID code of the display document held in (1) is received by the wireless communication device 11, image recognition processing such as barcode can be omitted.
Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the user can only edit the documents D1 and D2 displayed in the electronic paper EP according to the arrangement relation in which the images D1 and D2 are read by simply reading the images. However, it is possible to generate new document electronic data ND by editing the document electronic data without complicated computer operation by the user.

FIG. 5 shows a document editing system according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, a plurality of documents D1 and D2 to be edited are respectively printed and displayed on a plurality of sheets P as media. Then, the parts d1, d2, and d3 in the document displayed and held on each sheet P are collectively edited according to the positional relationship of image reading on each sheet P, and the new document parts d1, d2, and d3 are grouped. A document ND is generated.
In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the part similar to the example shown in FIGS. 1-4, and the overlapping description is abbreviate | omitted.

  In this embodiment, the system configuration is a combination of the first embodiment and the third embodiment, and the portions d1, d2, and d3 designated by the marks L in the documents D1 and D2 read by the scanner 10 are partially stored. While specifying and extracting by the specifying means 2, the arrangement of the documents D1 and D2 (that is, the document portions d1, d2, and d3) in the image reading area by the scanner 10 (in this example, the area drawn on the platen 10a) is determined. The layout specification for the collective editing of the specified mark designation portions d1, d2, and d3, which is specified by the position specifying means 7 and is extracted according to the arrangement relationship, is performed.

In this embodiment, the user designates desired portions d1, d2, and d3 by adding a mark L in the documents D1 and D2 printed on the paper P, and designates these documents D1 and D2 as document ID codes (bars). The image is read by the scanner 10 together with the code (C).
The part specifying unit 2 specifies the mark designation parts d1, d2, and d3 from the documents D1 and D2 from which the images have been read, and the position specifying unit 7 is the image reading area 10a of the specified mark designation parts d1, d2, and d3. Specify the position at.

Then, the data acquisition means 3 acquires the electronic data of each document part d1, d2, d3 specified by the position specification means 7 from the data holding means 6 based on the ID code C, and then the editing means 4 Based on the electronic data of the plurality of document parts d1, d2, and d3 acquired by the acquiring unit 3, the document parts d1, d2, and d3 are laid out in the positional relationship at the time of image reading specified by the position specifying unit 7. An edit document ND is generated.
In the example shown in FIG. 5, as indicated by a broken line in the figure, the document D1 is positioned on the right side of the image reading area 10a to read the image, and then the document D2 is positioned on the left side of the image reading area 10a to read the image. Based on the above, reflecting the reading order and the arrangement relationship, the mark designation part d1 included in the document D1 is arranged at the lower right of the page, and the mark designation parts d2 and d3 included in the document D2 are positioned at the respective positions. The electronic data of a new document ND arranged in order from the upper left reflecting the relationship is created.

FIG. 11 shows a specific layout arrangement example of the mark designation portion according to the above-described image reading order and arrangement relationship.
In the illustrated example, when three document portions d1, d2, and d3 are read in order, the mark designation portions d1, d2, and d3 are arranged in the reading order from the left of the page, and further, the mark designation portions d1, d2, The editing document ND is generated by arranging d3 in a positional relationship reflecting the position on the platen 10a. The scanning method of image reading may be performed by sequentially loading a plurality of document sheets onto the platen 10a of the scanner 10 and reading the images one by one, or placing the plurality of document sheets on the platen of the scanner 10 at the same time. The image may be read continuously.

  Therefore, according to the document editing system of the fifth embodiment, the user simply adds the marks L of the required portions d1, d2, and d3 to the documents D1 and D2 displayed on the paper P and reads the image. These mark designation portions d1, d2, and d3 can be collectively edited based on the arrangement relationship in which the image is read, and the user edits the electronic document data without complicated computer operations. Document electronic data ND can be generated.

FIG. 6 shows a document editing system according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, a plurality of documents D1 and D2 to be edited are recorded and held in a plurality of electronic paper EPs as media. The parts d1, d2, and d3 designated with the mark L in the documents D1 and D2 are collectively edited in accordance with the reading order and positional relationship of the parts d1, d2, and d3, and the parts d1, d2 , D3 is generated as a new document ND.
In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the part similar to the example shown in FIGS. 1-5, and the overlapping description is abbreviate | omitted, and electronic paper EP is a display recording apparatus as mentioned above.

In this embodiment, the same processing as that of the fifth embodiment is performed to collectively edit electronic data of a plurality of document portions to generate new document electronic data ND. In this embodiment, each electronic paper EP is stored in a memory (26 46), since the ID code of the display document held in 46) is received by the wireless communication device 11, image recognition processing such as barcode can be omitted.
Therefore, also in this embodiment, the user simply adds the mark L to the desired portion and reads the image of the documents D1 and D2 displayed on the electronic paper EP, and the mark designation portions d1, d2, and d3 are changed. The electronic document can be edited collectively based on the arrangement relationship in which the image has been read, and the electronic document data that does not require complicated computer operations can be edited by the user. .

1 is a diagram showing a document editing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the document editing system which concerns on 2nd Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the document editing system which concerns on 3rd Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the document editing system which concerns on 4th Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the document editing system which concerns on 5th Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the document editing system which concerns on 6th Example of this invention. It is a figure explaining the structured data of the document based on the Example of this invention. It is a figure explaining the layout arrangement of the document part which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a figure explaining the layout arrangement of the document part which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a figure explaining the layout arrangement of the document part which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a figure explaining the layout arrangement of the document part which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows optical writing type electronic paper. It is a figure explaining the usage method of optical writable electronic paper. It is a figure explaining the principle of operation of optical writing type electronic paper. It is a figure explaining the structure of optical writing type electronic paper. It is a figure which shows self-rewritable electronic paper. It is a figure explaining the principle of operation of self-rewriting type electronic paper. It is a figure explaining the structure of self-rewritable electronic paper.

Explanation of symbols

1: layout editing device, 2: part specifying means,
3: data acquisition means, 4: editing means,
6: data holding means, 7: position specifying means,
10: Scanner (image reading means), 11: Wireless communication device,
25, 45: wireless communication unit, 26, 46: memory,
C: Document ID code (bar code), D1, D2: Document,
d1, d2, d3: document part, EP: electronic paper,
L: Mark, ND: Editing document,
P: paper,

Claims (13)

A document editing system that extracts a portion of a document displayed and held on a medium and edits it into a new document,
Data holding means for holding electronic data of a document displayed and held on the medium;
Image reading means for performing image reading processing on a medium with a mark for specifying a document portion and identification information of the document;
A part specifying means for specifying a mark designation part designated by the mark in each document read from a plurality of media;
Data acquisition means for acquiring electronic data of a document part corresponding to the mark designation part specified by the part specification means based on the identification information read out from the data holding means;
Document editing means for generating an edited document in which the plurality of document portions are arranged in a predetermined layout based on the acquired data of the document portions of the plurality of media;
A document editing system characterized by comprising: A document editing system that extracts a portion of a document displayed and held on a medium and edits it into a new document,
The medium includes display function means for displaying and holding an image of a document, memory for holding identification information of the displayed and held document, and wireless communication means for wirelessly transmitting the document identification information held in the memory. Electronic paper,
Data holding means for holding electronic data of a document displayed and held on the electronic paper;
Image reading means for performing image reading processing on the electronic paper with a mark for designating a document part;
Wireless receiving means for receiving display document identification information from the electronic paper to be image-read;
A part specifying means for specifying a mark designation part designated by the mark from each document read from a plurality of media;
Data acquisition means for acquiring electronic data of the document portion corresponding to the specified mark designation portion from the data holding means based on the received document identification information;
Document editing means for generating an edited document in which a plurality of the document portions are arranged in a predetermined layout based on the acquired electronic data of the plurality of portions;
A document editing system characterized by comprising: A document editing system for editing a document displayed and held on a plurality of media into a new document,
Data holding means for holding electronic data of a document displayed and held on the medium;
An image reading means for performing an image reading process on the document displayed and held on the medium and an identification information of the document having a reading area for drawing a page of the document;
Position specifying means for specifying the position of the image read with respect to the reading area;
Data acquisition means for acquiring electronic data of a corresponding document from the data holding means based on the document identification information read from the image;
Document editing means for generating an edited document in which documents read from a plurality of media are arranged in accordance with specified positions, based on the acquired electronic data of the plurality of documents;
A document editing system characterized by comprising: A document editing system for editing a document displayed and held on a plurality of media into a new document,
The medium has display function means for displaying and holding an image of the document, a memory for holding identification information of the displayed and held document, and a wireless communication means for wirelessly transmitting the document identification information held in the memory. Electronic paper,
Data holding means for holding electronic data of the document displayed and held on the electronic paper;
Image reading means for reading a document displayed and held on the electronic paper with a reading area for drawing a page of the document;
Wireless receiving means for receiving identification information of a display document of the electronic paper to be image-read;
Position specifying means for specifying the position of the image read document with respect to the reading area;
Data acquisition means for acquiring electronic data of the corresponding document from the data holding means based on the received document identification information;
Document editing means for generating an edited document in which documents read from a plurality of the media are arranged in accordance with specified positions, based on the acquired electronic data of the plurality of documents;
A document editing system characterized by comprising: A document editing system that extracts a portion of a document displayed and held on a medium and edits it into a new document,
Data holding means for holding electronic data of a document displayed and held on the medium;
Image reading means for performing image reading processing on a medium with a mark for specifying a document portion and identification information of the document;
A part specifying means for specifying a mark specifying part specified by the mark in a document read from an image of a medium;
A position specifying means for specifying the position of the document part read from the image relative to the reading area;
Data acquisition means for acquiring electronic data of a document portion corresponding to the specified mark designation portion from the data holding means based on the document identification information read from the image;
Document editing means for generating an edited document in which a plurality of document portions are arranged in accordance with specified positions based on the plurality of document portion data acquired,
A document editing system characterized by comprising: A document editing system that extracts a portion of a document displayed and held on a medium and edits it into a new document,
The medium includes display function means for displaying and holding an image of a document, a memory for holding identification information of the displayed and held document, and wireless communication means for wirelessly transmitting the document identification information held in the memory. Electronic paper,
Data holding means for holding electronic data of a document displayed and held on the electronic paper;
Image reading means for performing image reading processing on electronic paper with a mark for designating a document part;
Wireless receiving means for receiving identification data of a display document from electronic paper to be image-read;
A part specifying unit for specifying a mark designation part designated by the mark from a document image-read from a medium;
A position specifying means for specifying the position of the document part read from the image relative to the reading area;
Data acquisition means for acquiring electronic data of the document portion corresponding to the specified mark designation portion from the data holding means based on the received document identification information;
Document editing means for generating an edited document in which document portions read from a plurality of media are arranged in accordance with specified positions, based on the acquired electronic data of the plurality of documents;
A document editing system characterized by comprising: In the document editing system according to claim 1, claim 2, claim 5, or claim 6,
The document editing system characterized in that the electronic data of the document held by the data holding means is structured data in which electronic data of a plurality of parts constituting the document is associated. In the document editing system according to claim 1 or 2,
The document editing system is characterized in that an edited document is generated by laying out a plurality of document parts in an order according to the order of image reading. The document editing system according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
The document editing system, wherein the document editing means generates an edited document by enlarging or reducing a document or a document portion and arranging the document or document portion on a page. A document editing method for extracting a portion of a document displayed and held on a medium and editing it into a new document,
Data holding means holds electronic data of a document displayed and held on the medium;
An image reading means performs an image reading process on a medium to which a mark for designating a document portion and identification information of the document are attached,
A part specifying unit specifies a mark specifying part specified by the mark in each document read from a plurality of media;
Data acquisition means acquires electronic data of a document part corresponding to the specified mark designation part from the data holding means based on the document identification information read from the image,
The document editing method, wherein the document editing means generates an edited document in which a plurality of the document portions are arranged in a predetermined layout based on the acquired partial data of the plurality of documents. Displaying a document on an electronic paper having display function means for displaying and holding an image of the document, a memory for holding identification information of the displayed and held document, and a wireless communication means for wirelessly transmitting the document identification information held in the memory A document editing method for extracting and extracting a part of the displayed and held document and editing it into a new document,
Data holding means holds electronic data of a document displayed and held on the electronic paper,
The image reading means performs an image reading process on the electronic paper with a mark designating the document part,
Wireless receiving means receives identification data of a display document from the electronic paper from which an image is read;
A part specifying unit specifies a mark specifying part specified by the mark from each document image-read from a plurality of the media,
The data acquisition means acquires electronic data of a document part corresponding to the specified mark designation part from the data holding means based on the received document identification information,
A document editing method, wherein the document editing means generates an edited document in which a plurality of document portions are arranged in a predetermined layout based on the acquired electronic data of the plurality of portions. A document editing method for editing a document displayed and held on a plurality of media into a new document,
Data holding means holds electronic data of the document displayed and held on the medium;
The image reading means performs image reading processing on the document displayed and held on the medium with a reading area for drawing a page of the document and identification information of the document,
The position specifying means specifies the position of the document read from the image with respect to the reading area;
The data acquisition means acquires the electronic data of the corresponding document from the data holding means based on the identification information of the document read from the image,
A document editing unit generates an edited document in which documents read from a plurality of the media are arranged in accordance with specified positions based on the acquired electronic data of the plurality of documents. Editing method. Displaying a document on an electronic paper having display function means for displaying and holding an image of the document, a memory for holding identification information of the displayed and held document, and a wireless communication means for wirelessly transmitting the document identification information held in the memory A document editing method for holding and editing a plurality of documents displayed and held on the electronic paper into a new document,
Data holding means holds electronic data of a document displayed and held on the electronic paper,
An image reading means reads a document displayed and held on the electronic paper with a reading area for drawing a page of the document,
The wireless receiving means receives the identification information of the display document from the electronic paper for reading the image,
The position specifying means specifies the position of the image-read document with respect to the reading area,
The data acquisition means acquires electronic data of the corresponding document from the data holding means based on the received document identification information,
Document editing means for generating an edited document in which documents read from a plurality of media are arranged in accordance with specified positions based on the acquired electronic data of the plurality of documents. Method.

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