JP2009169833A - Conference minutes processing apparatus, method and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a conference minutes processing apparatus by which a participant can easily find an item that the participant wants to retrieve from the prepared conference minutes by improving operability by allowing the participant to share an input means during a meeting. <P>SOLUTION: In a step S302, additional information, handwritten character information, biological information, and the like are input, and in a step S304, the handwritten character information is associated with the input person, entries of conference minutes are further generated from the handwritten character information, prescribed materials and the biological information, and a plurality of entries of conference minutes are put together to prepare conference minutes. Thus, the participant can share the input means in a meeting to improve operability and can easily find an item that the participant wants to retrieve from the prepared conference minutes. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a minutes processing apparatus, method, and program.

  Conventionally, in information processing apparatuses equipped with handwriting input means such as a PC with a digitizer, a PDA, a large screen display, etc., a handwriting input means with a pen familiar to everyday use has been provided in addition to GUI operation using a keyboard and a mouse. A GUI is used.

  Recently, an application of this handwriting input means to an electronic blackboard used for a meeting has been proposed. For example, in Patent Document 1, when handwriting is input on the touch surface of an electronic blackboard, the input handwritten characters are recognized and converted to type. In addition, when recording agendas and minutes on electronic blackboards at meetings, etc., it is claimed that even if handwritten in a messy manner, the handwritten letters are converted to typefaces and orderly minutes can be obtained. is doing.

  Moreover, in patent document 2, when an input person is authenticated in advance, character recognition is performed based on an individual handwriting pattern, a character recognition rate is improved, and a new handwriting pattern is recognized. We aim to further improve the character recognition rate.

JP 2000-043485 A JP 2003-99184 A

  However, Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2 do not mention how to create the minutes after handwritten character information is input, and are not considered as an overall system.

  Further, in Patent Document 2, since an identifier is attached to the handwritten character input means, one handwritten character input means is required for each participant, and there is a problem that operability is lowered.

The minutes processing apparatus of the present invention is included in additional information input means for inputting additional information, handwritten character information input means for inputting handwritten character information, and said handwritten character information input means, and inputs biometric information. A biometric information input unit; and a biometric information authentication unit, wherein the biometric information authentication unit associates the handwritten character information with the input person, the handwritten character information, the predetermined document, and the biometric information. It is characterized by comprising means for generating a minutes entry based on the information and creation means for creating a minutes by collecting a plurality of minutes entries.
In addition, the minutes processing method of the present invention includes a step of inputting additional information, handwritten character information, and biometric information, a step of authenticating the biometric information by associating the handwritten character information with the input person, The method includes a step of generating a minutes entry from handwritten character information, a predetermined material, and the biometric information, and a minutes creation step of collecting a plurality of minutes entries to create a minutes.
Moreover, the program of this invention is a program for making a computer perform each process of the method as described above.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to improve the operability by allowing the participants to share the input means during the conference, and it is possible to easily find the item to be searched from the created minutes.

  Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the minutes creation apparatus of the present invention will be described. The following embodiments do not limit the invention according to the scope of claims, and all the combinations of features described in the present embodiment are not necessarily essential to the solution means of the invention. Absent.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a system block diagram showing a configuration according to the present embodiment. As shown in the figure, the in-house meeting room X17 and the outside meeting room Y18 are connected by a communication circuit via the meeting screen synchronization device 13.

  The two conference screen synchronization devices 13 are synchronized, and the same information is always displayed on each output device 11 via the conference reproduction device 12. In addition, electronic documents and handwritten information that are paper data and electronic data input from the input device 15 are displayed on the output device 11 via the conference reproduction device 12. In addition, the biometric information of the input person input from the input device 15 is collated with the registration information in the authentication device 14.

  Here, the biological information refers to the shape and behavior of a characteristic part of the body. Specifically, if biometric information is converted into data and registered in advance using fingerprints, veins, voices, signatures, etc., the biometric information is acquired and converted to data at the time of authentication and compared with the registered data. Thus, personal authentication can be performed. From this processing, information that can identify the input person and input person identification information are obtained.

  The input person identification information obtained from the handwritten character information and the biometric information is associated with the additional information and recorded as a minutes entry in the conference recording device 16 of the conference room X17. The additional information indicates time information, location information, and the like.

  The time information is an input operation time when an input operation of handwritten character information is performed from the handwritten character information input means, and the location information is the name of the conference room (conference room X17, conference In the room Y18), etc., the information indicates the location of the conference participant. The location information can be registered in advance. Additional information can be input using the input device 15.

  FIG. 2 is an example of a diagram illustrating a system image using the present embodiment. The system shown in FIG. 1 includes a display 21 and an electronic pen 24 with a biological information input device 25 for inputting to the display 21. On the display 21 screen, information input from the input device and character information 22 and 23 handwritten by the conference participant using the electronic pen 24 are displayed.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the minutes recording means in the present embodiment. The minutes recording means is realized by a CPU, RAM, ROM, etc. (not shown). Through the user authentication process in step S301 in the figure, the conference participant registers biometric information and performs user authentication. If registered, the biometric information input from the biometric information input device 25 and the biometric information registered in the authentication device 14 are collated to obtain information indicating who is the input person and input person identification information.

  In the subsequent handwriting input process in step S302, a handwriting input operation by the user is accepted. In the next handwritten character recognition process in step S303, the handwritten character recognition process is executed when it is determined that the handwritten character information is input. If the user is registered at that time, handwritten character recognition is performed using a personalized handwriting pattern dictionary. Here, the handwritten character recognition is processing for recognizing an input handwritten character, converting it into a character code, and displaying / outputting it.

  In the minutes saving process in the last step S304, the minutes entry is generated by associating the input person identification information acquired from the user authentication process S301 with the description character information obtained from the handwritten character recognition process S303.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating in detail step S301 (user authentication processing) of FIG. 3 in the present embodiment. In step S401 in the figure, it is determined whether or not the user's biometric information has been registered. If registered, the user authentication process S301 ends. On the other hand, if it is not registered, it is determined in step S402 whether or not an unregistered person can participate in the conference. This can be arbitrarily set by the meeting organizer. If the conference organizer does not permit, the unregistered person cannot participate in the conference by using the above-mentioned handwritten character information input means without performing user registration in step S405. If it is permitted without registration, it is processed by naming it as unknown N or the like in steps S403 and S404.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the minutes created in step S304 (minutes saving process) in FIG. The time 72 and place 73 when the input operation was performed from the input device 15, the name 74 of the input person, the theme 75 and the description content 76 of handwriting input are numbered and arranged in the order of the input operation time. The theme information is an item that can be arbitrarily set during the meeting and can be determined in association with the title of the meeting material (predetermined material) under discussion.

  The title is an item written in information that is paper or electronic data used during a meeting. If the title is always displayed at a fixed position on the screen, which part The title can be recognized or registered in advance. Then, the title part is cut out as an image, and the result of character recognition processing of the title image is set as the theme information, and the agenda is associated with the input operation time information, the location information, the input person identification information, and the description character information. Saved as a record entry.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example in which the minutes described above are rearranged for each input person information in the present embodiment. Thereby, it is possible to easily find out when the description content of a specific person is confirmed.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example in which the minutes described above in this embodiment are rearranged for each theme information. As a result, it is possible to easily find out the description contents of a specific theme.

  Thus, the following effects can be realized by the present invention shown in the present embodiment. That is, since the conference participants can share the handwritten character information input means, one handwritten character information input means can be used by a plurality of persons. Also, by creating the above minutes, it is easy to find out when and who wrote what, and easily find it when looking back at a later date.

(Second Embodiment)
FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the conference recording device 16 that is provided only with the conference room X17 in the first embodiment is also provided in the conference room Y18. As a result, even when the communication circuits of the conference rooms X17 and Y18 are shut off, data can be acquired at each base.

(Third embodiment)
FIG. 9 shows an example in which the authentication device 14 that is not connected by the communication circuit in the first embodiment is connected by the communication circuit. This makes it possible to manage the biometric information of the conference participants for each base. It should be noted that the present invention can be realized by a program of a multifunction machine or a computer.

  Moreover, in order to implement | achieve this invention, you may use the recording medium which recorded the program code (computer program) of the software which implement | achieves the function of embodiment mentioned above. In this case, the object of the present invention is achieved by supplying the recording medium to the system or apparatus and reading and executing the program code stored in the recording medium by the computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus.

  In this case, the program code itself read from the recording medium realizes the functions of the above-described embodiment, and the program code itself and the recording medium storing the program code constitute the present invention.

  As a recording medium for supplying the program code, for example, a flexible disk, a hard disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a CD-ROM, a CD-R, a magnetic tape, a nonvolatile memory card, a ROM, or the like can be used.

  Needless to say, the OS (basic system or operating system) running on the computer performs part or all of the actual processing based on the instruction of the program code.

  Furthermore, the program code read from the recording medium may be written in a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer. In this case, based on the instruction of the written program code, the CPU or the like provided in the function expansion board or function expansion unit may perform part or all of the actual processing.

It is a system block diagram which shows the structure which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is the figure which showed the image of the system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart explaining operation | movement of the minutes recording means in embodiment of this invention. It is the flowchart explaining in detail the user authentication process in the embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the minutes produced in the minutes preservation | save process in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example which rearranged the minutes produced in embodiment of this invention for every input person information. It is a figure which shows the example which rearranged the minutes produced in embodiment of this invention for every theme information. It is a system block diagram in the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a system block diagram in the 3rd Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

11 Output device 12 Conference playback device 13 Conference screen synchronization device 14 Authentication device 15 Input device 16 Conference recording device 21 Display 24 Electronic pen 25 Biometric information input device

Claims (4)

A minutes processing device,
Additional information input means for inputting additional information;
Handwritten character information input means for inputting handwritten character information; biometric information input means for inputting biological information, included in the handwritten character information input means;
An authentication means for the biometric information,
The biometric information authentication means includes:
Means for associating the handwritten character information with the input person;
Means for generating minutes entries based on the handwritten character information, the predetermined material and the biometric information;
A minutes processing apparatus, comprising: a creation means for creating a minutes by collecting a plurality of entries of the minutes.   The additional information input means, the handwritten character information input means, and the biometric information input means are configured as a multifunction device capable of inputting paper data and electronic data, and the electronic data includes the handwritten character information, the biometric information, and the like. The minutes processing device according to claim 1, wherein the minutes processing device is an electronic document. Additional information, handwriting information and biometric information input process,
Authenticating the biometric information by associating the handwritten character information with the input person;
Generating a minutes entry from the handwritten character information, the predetermined material and the biometric information;
A minutes processing method comprising: creating a minutes by collecting a plurality of minutes entries.   The program for making a computer perform each process of the method of Claim 3.

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