Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program

• US 10,067,921 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2014
• Issued: 09/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ishii, Satoru, Yasuda, Tatsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie Anne
• Application Number:
  US15/127,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20170147546A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,348 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/289 Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an extractor and a display unit. To make an actually selected target coincide with a target the user wants to select from a display document, the extractor extracts a document element included in a selected range in a document based on the attribute of the document element. The display unit selectably performs list display of extraction results of the extractor. This allows the user to select a desired document element from the list display, thereby making an actually selected target coincide with a target the user wants to select from the display document.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions; and

at least one processor configured to execute the stored instructions to implement;

an extractor that extracts document elements included in a selected range in a document based on attributes of the document elements;

a storage unit that stores the document elements extracted by the extractor, attributes of the document elements and selection flags;

a list generator that generates a list of the stored document elements in an order determined by as user;

a document element selector that selects a desired document element from the list based on the order determined by the user; and

an inserter that inserts the selected document element in the document;

wherein the selection flags are updated with the selection by the document element selector.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the document elements are document components having an attribute indicating at least one of a word, phrase, sentence, and paragraph included in the selected range.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the document elements are information elements having an attribute indicating at least one of a name, location, telephone number, and mail address included in the selected range.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the attributes of the document elements include at least one of a kanji character, hiragana character, katakana character, letter, numeral, and symbol.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, the information processing apparatus further comprises a display unit which performs a list display of the document elements extracted by the extractor in accordance with priority levels set by one of a user and an application.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to execute the stored instructions to implement:

a setting unit that sets the attributes, the bases of which are used by the extractor to extract the document elements included in the selected range.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said extractor extracts the document elements in accordance with a paste operation executed by the user, to a predetermined position within the selected range.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, the information processing apparatus further comprising a display unit which preferentially displays, in a prediction conversion list, the document elements extracted by the extractor in accordance with prediction conversion processing into a document input.

9. An information processing method comprising:

extracting document elements included in a selected range in a document based on attributes of the document elements;

storing the extracted document elements, attributes of the document elements, and selection flags;

generating a list of the stored document elements in an order determined by a user;

selecting a desired document element from the list based on the order determined by the user; and

inserting the selected document element in the document,

wherein the selection flags are updated based on the selected desired document element.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for causing at least one processor to execute instructions to:

extract document elements included in a selected range in a document based on attributes of the document elements;

store the extracted document elements, attributes of the document elements and selection flags;

generate a list of the stored document elements in a order determined by a user;

select a desired document element from the list based on the order determined by the user; and

insert the selected document element in the document;

wherein the selection flags are updated with the selection by the document element selector.