JP5321868B2 - Copy form and manufacturing method thereof - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a copy form on which a dot pattern is formed and a method for manufacturing the same.

Conventionally, when submitting an application form or the like, an applicant fills in an application form on which a predetermined printing has been performed and fills in the necessary items with a writing instrument.
In recent years, convenient input systems have been provided for such fields.
This is an input system developed by "Anoto" in Sweden. An electronic pen called "Anotopen" and an electronic pen reading dot pattern (hereinafter also referred to as an electronic pen reading dot pattern or simply a dot pattern) Is a system that transmits information described on electronic pen writing-dedicated paper (hereinafter referred to as electronic pen description paper) printed on the communication terminal to the communication terminal as digitized information.
The electronic pen, when the reporter writes characters etc. on the electronic pen description paper, as the pen moves, the electronic pen imaging unit reads the dot pattern printed on the electronic pen description paper and writes the characters etc. Is stored as electronic information.
The input information stored in the electronic pen is transmitted from the electronic pen to a nearby communication terminal such as a personal computer or a mobile phone by a communication unit built in the electronic pen.
In the above-described input system using an electronic pen, the electronic pen functions as a keyboard. However, the reporter can make an application or the like with a conventional feeling.

In the above-mentioned “Anoto” input system, electronic pen-description paper on which a dot pattern is printed is used, and the above-described dot pattern is assigned and used for each field.
Further, in this system, since input information is input by reading a fine dot pattern with an electronic pen, the print quality of the dot pattern and the substrate to be printed are strictly selected.

When manufacturing a copy form for an electronic pen, a dot pattern is usually printed and collated for each sheet of a copy form. For this reason, it is necessary to check whether the dot pattern is printed as specified before collation, which takes time and effort. In order to reduce this effort,
By providing a barcode printing section and barcode processing section on a single electronic pen form, it is possible to efficiently process the data of the information entered in the electronic pen copy form composed of a plurality of electronic pen forms. An "electronic pen copy form" to be performed is provided (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2007-316795 A

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a copy form that eliminates the trouble of checking the dot pattern of each sheet when collating each sheet of the copy form, and a method for manufacturing the copy form.

The method for manufacturing a copy form of the present invention that solves the above problems includes a first step of printing each form having a different size of the copy form with ink that cannot be read by an electronic pen, a second step for binding the forms, and a binding. And a third step of printing a coded pattern with ink that can be read with an electronic pen on the exposed surface of each of the combined copy forms.
In the second step, each copy form is aligned at one end, and the lower form is superposed and bound in a stepped manner so that the lower form is longer than the upper form.
Further, in the third step, the coded pattern is printed by feeding the copy form from the binding part side to the printing machine.
In addition, the copy form of the present invention is formed by superimposing and binding each form having a different size, and coding with ink that can be read with an electronic pen on the display surface of each form in the bound state. A pattern is printed, but a coded pattern is not printed on a surface that is not exposed.
Furthermore, the copy form according to the present invention is characterized in that each form is aligned at one end, and the lower form is overlapped and bound in a staircase shape so as to be longer than the upper form.

  According to the method for producing a copy form of the present invention, the coding pattern is printed on the surface of each form of the bound copy form. Is no longer necessary. As a result, it is possible to manufacture a copy form according to the present invention in which a coded pattern is not printed on a surface that is not exposed.

It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the copy form for electronic pens of this Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the AA line cross section of FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the collection method of the description information using the electronic pen of this Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of an electronic pen. It is a figure for demonstrating the dot pattern only for an electronic pen reading.

Hereinafter, a description information collection method using the electronic pen of the present embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining an example of a copy form used in the present embodiment, FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining an example of a cross section taken along line AA of FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example of an electronic pen, and FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an electronic pen read-only dot pattern. Figure.

An example of a copy form used in the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
The example of the copy form shown in FIG. 1 is an example of a copy form composed of two sheets, but is not limited to two.
However, it is preferable that the copy form is composed of about 2 to 4 parts because the dot pattern formed on the form becomes unclear in the lower form due to the level difference of the stacked paper as the number of copies increases.
The electronic pen copy form 1 according to the present embodiment is an example of an application form, in which a first form 11 that is a “customer copy” and a second form 12 that is a “company copy” are illustrated. Are aligned at one end on the left side, and are bound together at the binding portion 3.

The second form 12 which is a lower form is a copy form arranged in a staircase longer than the first form 11 which is an upper form, and information is described in each form. A dot pattern (not shown) for reading with an electronic pen is formed only on the exposed surface on the side of the surface with a material that absorbs infrared rays, for example, printing ink or printer toner.
In addition to the dot pattern described above, information such as ruled lines, designs, characters, and the like is printed on the surface of the first form 11 and the second form 12. Although not shown in the figure, since the information described on the first sheet is displayed in a duplicated portion on the portion of the second sheet that is not represented, information such as ruled lines and characters similar to those on the first sheet is displayed. Is printed with a material that does not absorb infrared light, such as printing ink or toner.

With reference to FIG. 2, an example of the cross section along the AA line of FIG. 1 is demonstrated.
In the electronic pen copy form according to the present embodiment, the first form 11 and the second form 12 are aligned at one end on the left side of the drawing, and are bound by the binding unit 3.
The second form 12 which is the lower form is designed to be longer than the first form 11 which is the upper form. In each form, a dot pattern 2 for reading an electronic pen is formed only on the exposed surface on which information is written.
In addition to the dot pattern 2 described above, normal printing 4 such as ruled lines, designs, and characters is applied to the surface of the second form 12. Although not shown, normal printing such as ruled lines, designs, characters, etc. is applied to the surface of the first form 11 in addition to the dot pattern 2 described above.

The first form 11 is the top sheet of a copy form, and the top sheet is used if it is carbonless paper. The second form 12 is a lower sheet, and a bottom sheet is used if it is a non-carbon sheet.
The top surface of the top paper is the surface of plain paper so that information can be written with a writing instrument. Further, the lower surface (back surface) of the top paper is a color former forming surface 111, and the capsule is broken by the writing pressure of the written writing tool so that the color former oozes out.
The upper surface of the second form 12 is a color development surface, and is a developer forming surface 121 that develops color by the color developer that has been destroyed and exuded.

In addition to the method that uses carbonless paper, there is a copy method that uses copy paper and copies with print carbon, and can be copied by forming wax-based ink on the back of the first sheet of paper, As in the case of using the above-mentioned carbonless paper, a dot pattern for reading with an electronic pen and other printing are applied and used as a copy form for an electronic pen.
When selecting the above-mentioned carbonless paper and copy paper (as shown in the figure, the step becomes larger as the number of copies increases), a thin paper is selected to print the dot pattern clearly.

An example of a procedure for producing a copy form will be described with reference to FIG.
First, a printing pattern is separately printed and wound on the first and second sheets 11 and 12 of the copy form 1 shown in FIG.
When using carbonless paper for the form, copy paper is printed on the back side of the first sheet 11 to copy the first sheet 11 and the second sheet 12 although not shown when using copy paper. A binding copy form 1 is produced with a superposition adhesive or the like.
When forming a dot pattern by printing, the collated copy form is loaded on the feeder of the sheet-fed printing press so as to be fed from the binding unit side, and an electronic pen is read on the display surface of the information description surface of the copy form. A dot pattern for printing is printed with infrared absorbing ink.
In addition, when forming a dot pattern using a printer, the bound copy forms are stacked on the feeder of the sheet-fed printing press so as to be fed from the binding portion side, and the information display surface of the copy forms is displayed. Further, a dot pattern 2 for reading an electronic pen is formed with toner that absorbs infrared rays.

Here, a system of “Anoto” using an electronic pen and a dot pattern for reading only an electronic pen will be described.
The electronic pen includes a normal writing unit, an imaging unit for reading a dot pattern, a transmission / reception unit (hereinafter referred to as a communication unit) for transmitting / receiving dot pattern information, and the like.
For example, when a writer describes characters or the like in the information description column, an imaging unit built in the electronic pen reads the coordinate information displayed by the dot pattern as the pen moves, and the connected communication terminal (or The read coordinate information is transmitted directly from the communication unit to the information collection terminal.
The communication terminal transmits the received coordinate information to an electronic pen system management server connected to the network.
The electronic pen system management server converts the received coordinate information into text data and sends it back to the server on the user side or the communication terminal.
In the case of the information collecting terminal described above in which the electronic pen system management server function is built in the communication terminal, the coordinate information is converted into text data.

The electronic pen will be described with reference to FIG.
The electronic pen 5 includes a writing unit 56 with an ink cartridge 58, an imaging unit 55 by a digital camera that reads a dot pattern, a storage unit 53 that stores writing information (dot pattern coordinate information) read by the digital camera, and portable communication. A communication unit 52 that transmits coordinate information to the terminal, a control unit 54 that controls these functions, a pressure sensor 57 for an electronic pen, and a power supply unit (not shown) are arranged inside the casing 51 of the electronic pen 5. It is installed.
The electronic pen 5 reads the dot pattern printed on the electronic pen description sheet by the imaging unit 55 and stores it in the storage unit 53. Although not shown, the electronic pen 5 is connected to the communication unit 52 together with unique identification information of the electronic pen. Send to the terminal.
The communication unit 52 of the electronic pen can be adapted to both USB (Universal Serial Bus) and Bluetooth (registered trademark of The Bluetooth SIG, Inc.).
In addition, the writing unit 56 incorporated in the casing 51 of the electronic pen 5 can be used as a simple writing instrument.

The writing unit 56 plays a role of making the distance between the imaging unit 55 by the digital camera and the dot pattern printing surface constant in addition to the role of leaving the writing information in the description unit in a visible state.
When the writing unit 56 is mounted on the electronic pen housing 51, the tip on the ink cartridge 58 side comes into contact with the pressure sensor 57 for the electronic pen attached to the housing 51 of the electronic pen.
The pressure sensor 57 has a function of notifying the control unit 54 that the description of information is started and a function of recognizing the strength of writing pressure.
Further, when checking the remaining amount of the ink cartridge 58 or when filling ink, for example, the writing unit 56 is pulled out from the tip of the electronic pen housing 51 to check the remaining amount of ink, or to fill the ink. Do.

The electronic pen read-only dot pattern will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of a part 200 of the portion B shown in FIG.
The vertical and horizontal virtual lines shown in FIG. 5 are shown for ease of explanation, and are not actually printed.
Each dot of the electronic pen read-only dot pattern 2 is arranged and formed in any one of four different directions near the intersection of vertical and horizontal imaginary lines that intersect at right angles formed at intervals of 0.3 mm. In the system of “Anoto”, 36 dots (a group of dots printed on the inner side of about 4 mm ² ) are handled as one unit information.

When characters etc. are written on the electronic pen writing paper with an electronic pen, the position of the pen tip is traced, the coordinate information of the dot pattern printed in the vicinity is read, and the locus of unit information that the pen tip has moved Is stored in the storage unit of the electronic pen.
When a predetermined part of the electronic pen description sheet is marked with the electronic pen, the coordinate information described on the electronic pen description sheet is transmitted from the electronic pen to the communication terminal.
In the system of “Anote”, management is performed so that the same dot pattern is not used in one field of use.

Next, the above-described electronic pen system management server (not shown) will be described.
In many cases, the electronic pen system management server is divided into a PLS server and an ASH server.
The coordinate information transmitted from the communication terminal is first transmitted to an electronic pen system management server called PLS (Paper Look-up Service).
The PLS server determines the application in use from the received coordinate information of the dot pattern, and transmits the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and coordinate information of the ASH (Application Service Handler) server that supports the application to the communication terminal. The electronic pen system management server function may be used by being incorporated in a communication terminal.

Next, the above communication terminal (not shown) will be described.
The communication terminal includes, for example, a mobile phone, PDA (PDA) having input means such as a keyboard, transmission / reception means connected to the Internet to transmit / receive input information, display means such as a display, and storage means for storing input information and read information. (Personal Digital Assistance), such as a personal computer.
As described above, the communication terminal transmits information transmitted from the electronic pen to the electronic pen system management server, and receives and uses it as information converted into text data or the like.

  In some cases, the above-described information collection terminal is used instead of the communication terminal. Since the information collection terminal is equipped with the management server function described above, the dot pattern information read with the electronic pen is directly converted into text information.

With reference to FIG. 3, an example of a description information collecting method using the electronic pen according to the present embodiment will be described.
First, the first and second sheets of the copy form 1 are printed separately (S1), and the first and second sheets are bound together to produce the copy form 1.
A dot pattern is formed on the exposed surface of the copy form using a printer or printer (S2).

Using the electronic pen 5 on the copy form 1 created in S1 and S2, copy information is described (S3).
The described copy information is collected by the information collection terminal 6 (S4).
Additional information is described (S5). The written additional information is collected by the information collection terminal 6 (S6).
The information collection terminal 6 edits the copy information and supplementary information collected in S4 and S6 (S7).
The information collection terminal 6 uses the editing function to collect the collected information because S3 and S5 are associated with the dot pattern formed on the copy form even if the writer, the written time, and the written place are the same or different. Can be unified.

1 Copy form 2 Dot pattern 3 Binding section 4 Printing section (Infrared non-absorbing ink)
5 Electronic Pen 11 First Form 12 Second Form 51 Case 52 Communication Unit 53 Storage Unit 54 Control Unit 55 Imaging Unit 56 Writing Unit 57 Pressure Sensor 58 Ink Cartridge 111 Coloring Agent Forming Surface 121 Developer Forming Surface 200 B part enlarged view of 1

Claims (5)

A first step of printing each form of a different copy form with ink that cannot be read with an electronic pen;
A second step of binding each form,
And a third step of printing a coded pattern with ink that can be read with an electronic pen on the surface of each of the bound copy forms.   2. The copy form according to claim 1, wherein in the second step, each form of the copy form is aligned at one end, and the lower form is overlapped and bound in a stepped manner so that the lower form is longer than the upper form. Production method.   3. The method for producing a copy form according to claim 1, wherein in the third step, the coded pattern is printed by feeding the copy form from the binding part side of the copy form to the printing machine. Each form with different sizes is overlapped and bound,
A coded pattern is printed with ink that can be read with an electronic pen on the exposed surface of each form in the bound state, but the coded pattern is not printed on the non-exposed surface. A copy form characterized by 5. The copy form according to claim 4, wherein each form is aligned at one end, and the lower form is overlapped and bound in a staircase shape so as to be longer than the upper form.