Publication editing system and method

• US 20020073121A1
• Filed: 07/17/2001
• Published: 06/13/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanno Consulting Corporation
• Original Assignee: Sanno Consulting Corporation
• Inventors: Iwasaki, Kazuhisa, Sano, Michio, Miyamoto, Toshimitsu
• Application Number:
  US09/905,960
• Publication Number:
  US 20020073121A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/517
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

The present invention provides a publication editing system, comprising: a template display means connected with a user terminal to display a template composed of a combined arrangement of a text area and a image area; a printing information forming means for forming printing information to allow the associated information with the input text and the combination of the image and the template to be output as the publication; and a printing/binding means for printing and binding based on the printing information to provide a finished book.

Claims

1. A publication editing system comprising:

a user terminal used by a user who provides information on a publication;

an editing computer connected with said user terminal and for editing the publication based on the information and instructions from said user;

an image information storage means for allowing said editing computer to store image information provided from said user;

a template data storage means for allowing said editing computer to store a data of a template to be displayed on a screen of said user terminal in combination with said image information;

a template display means for displaying the image and template in combination thereof on said screen of said user terminal, which are specified by the instructions from said user;

a text input means for inputting a text through said template combined with said image according to the instructions from said user terminal by said user; and

a printing information forming means for forming printing information to allow the associated information with said input text and the combination of said image and said template to be output as the publication.

2. A publication editing system as defined in claim 1, wherein said template display means is adapted to transmit the image information, which includes a less amount of information than that of the corresponding image information stored in said image information storage means, to said user terminal.

3. A publication editing system as defined in claim 1, wherein said template display means is adapted to allow a WWW browser operable on said user terminal to display said template.

4. A publication editing system as defined in claim 1, which further includes a template data holding means for holding the template data provided for said WWW browser by said template display means to allow said WWW browser to be applied in an editing operation through said template even in an off-line state of said user terminal.

5. A publication editing system as defined in claim 1, which further includes an image information editing means for editing the image information stored in said image information storage means, according to a parameter specified from said user terminal by said user.

6. A publication editing system as defined in claim 1 , which further includes a printing/binding means for printing and binding a required number of publications based on said printing information.

7. A publication editing system as defined in claim 6, wherein said printing/binding means is placed in the vicinity of a shop including a bookshop to allow said publication printed and bound by said printing/binding means to be appropriately collected at said shop.

8. A publication editing method of editing a publication based on information and instructions from a user who provides information on said publication, said publication editing method comprising the steps of:

storing image information provided from said user in an editing computer;

storing a data of a template to be displayed on a screen of a user terminal in combination with said image information, in said editing computer;

displaying the image and template in combination thereof on said screen of said user terminal, which are specified by instructions from said user;

inputting a text through said template combined with said image according to the instructions from said user terminal by said user; and

forming printing information to allow the associated information with said input text and the combination of said image and said template to be output as the publication.

9. A server for implementing a publication editing method of editing a publication based on information and instructions from a user who provides information on said publication, said publication editing method comprising the steps of:

storing image information provided from said user in an editing computer;

storing a data of a template to be displayed on a screen of a user terminal in combination with said image information, in said editing computer;

displaying the image and template in combination thereof on said screen of said user terminal, which are specified by instructions from said user;

inputting a text through said template combined with said image according to the instructions from said user terminal by said user; and

forming printing information to allow the associated information with said input text and the combination of said image and said template to be output as the publication.

10. A publication editing system comprising:

a user terminal used by a user who provides information on a publication;

an editing computer connected with said user terminal and for editing said publication based on the information and instructions from said user;

a template data storage means incorporated in said editing computer and for storing a template data representing a template to be displayed on a screen of said user terminal with an image and text arranged at a given position of said template;

a template display means incorporated in said editing computer and for transmitting said template data to said user terminal so as to display said template on said user terminal;

an image information path input means incorporated in said editing computer and for inputting a file path of image information in said user terminal, through said user terminal;

an image position input means incorporated in said editing computer and for inputting positional information in association with said image information through said user terminal, said positional information representing said position of the image on said template represented by said image information having said input path;

a text information input means incorporated in said editing computer and for inputting text information in association with said positional information representing said position on said template through said user terminal, said text information including a text to be displayed on said template;

a text information storage means incorporated in said editing computer and for storing said text information input by said text information input means, in association with said positional information of said input text information;

a constructed screen display means incorporated in said editing computer and for constructing a display data and transmitting said display data to said user terminal, said display data allowing the image represented by said image information having said input path and the text represented by said input text information to be displayed on said screen of said user terminal with them arranged at each corresponding position on said template represented by said positional information associated with each of said image information and said text information;

an image information input means incorporated in said editing computer and for inputting said image information having said input path through said user terminal;

an image information storage means incorporated in said editing computer and for storing said image information input by said image information input means, in association with said positional information of said image information; and

a printing information forming means incorporated in said editing computer and for forming printing information used for outputting a specific image as a publication, said specific image including said image represented by said stored image information and said text represented by said stored text information, which are arranged at each corresponding position on said template represented by said positional information associated with each of said image information and said text information.

12. A publication editing system as defined in claim 10 or 11, wherein said template display means is adapted to allow a WWW browser operable on said user terminal to display said template.

13. A publication editing system as defined in claim 10 or 11, which further includes a template data holding means for holding the template data provided for said WWW browser by said template display means to allow said WWW browser to be applied in an editing operation through said template even in an off-line state of said user terminal.

14. A publication editing system as defined in claim 10 or 11, which further includes a printing/binding means for printing and binding a required number of publications based on said printing information.

11. A publication editing system comprising:

a user terminal used by a user who provides information on a publication;

an image providing WWW server connected with said user terminal and for providing image information to the WWW;

an editing computer connected with said user terminal and said image providing WWW server so as to edit said publication based on the information and instructions from said user;

a template data storage means incorporated in said editing computer and for storing a template data representing a template to be displayed on a screen of said user terminal with an image and text arranged at a given position of said template;

a template display means incorporated in said editing computer and for transmitting said template data to said user terminal so as to display said template on said user terminal;

an image information address input means incorporated in said editing computer and for inputting a file address of said image information in said image providing WWW server, through said user terminal;

a provided image receiving means incorporated in said user terminal and for receiving said image information having said input address from said image providing WWW server by requesting said image information to said image providing WWW server;

a provided image position input means incorporated in said editing computer and for inputting positional information in association with said image information through said user terminal, said positional information representing said position of the image on said template represented by said image information having said input address;

a text information input means incorporated in said editing computer and for inputting text information in association with said positional information representing said position on said template through said user terminal, said text information including a text to be displayed on said template;

a text information storage means incorporated in said editing computer and for storing said text information input by said text information input means, in association with said positional information of said input text information;

a constructed screen display means incorporated in said editing computer and for constructing a display data and transmitting said display data to said user terminal, said display data allowing the image represented by said image information having said input path and the text represented by said input text information to be displayed on said screen of said user terminal with them arranged at each corresponding position on said template represented by said positional information associated with each of said image information and said text information

an image information receive means incorporated in said editing computer and for receiving said image information having said input address from said image providing WWW server by requesting said image information to said image providing WWW server;

an image information storage means incorporated in said editing computer and for storing said image information received by said image information receive means, in association with said positional information of said image information; and

a printing information forming means incorporated in said editing computer and for forming printing information used for outputting a specific image as a publication, said specific image including said image represented by said stored image information and said text represented by said stored text information, which are arranged at each corresponding position on said template represented by said positional information associated with each of said image information and said text information.

15. A publication editing system as defined in claim 14, wherein said printing/binding means is placed in the vicinity of a shop including a bookshop to allow said publication printed and bound by said printing/binding means to be appropriately collected at said shop.

16. A publication editing method of editing a publication based on information and instructions from a user who provides information on said publication, said method comprising the steps of:

storing a template data representing a template to be displayed on a screen of a user terminal with an image and text arranged at a given position of said template;

transmitting said template data to said user terminal so as to display said template on said user terminal;

inputting a file path of the image information in said user terminal, through said user terminal;

inputting positional information in association with said image information through said user terminal, said positional information representing said position of the image on said template represented by said image information having said input path;

inputting text information in association with said positional information representing said position of the image on said template through said user terminal, said text information including a text to be displayed on said template;

storing said text information input in said step of inputting text information, in association with said positional information of said input text information;

constructing a display data, which allows the image represented by said image information having said input path and the text represented by said input text information to be displayed on said screen of said user terminal with them arranged at each corresponding position on said template represented by said positional information associated with each of said image information and said text information, and then transmitting said display data to said user terminal;

inputting said image information having said input path, through said user terminal;

storing said image information input in said step of inputting said image information, in association with said positional information of said image information; and

forming printing information for outputting a specific image as a publication, said specific image including said image represented by said stored image information and said text represented by said stored text information, which are arranged at each corresponding position on said template represented by said positional information associated with each of said image information and said text information.

17. A publication editing method of editing a publication by use of image information provided by an image providing WWW server, based on the information and instructions through a user terminal from a user who provides information on said publication, said publication editing method comprising the steps of:

storing a template data representing a template to be displayed on a screen of a user terminal with an image and text arranged at a given position of said template;

transmitting said template data to said user terminal so as to display said template on said user terminal;

inputting a file address of said image information in said image providing WWW server, through said user terminal;

receiving said image information having said input address from said image providing WWW server by requesting said image information to said image providing WWW server;

inputting positional information in association with said image information through said user terminal, said positional information representing said position of the image on said template represented by said image information having said input address;

inputting text information in association with said positional information representing said position of the image on said template through said user terminal, said text information including a text to be displayed on said template;

storing said text information input in said step of inputting text information, in association with said positional information of said input text information;

constructing a display data and transmitting said display data to said user terminal, said display data allowing the image represented by said image information having said input path and the text represented by said input text information to be displayed on said screen of said user terminal with them arranged at each corresponding position on said template represented by said positional information associated with each of said image information and said text information;

receiving said image information having said input address from said image providing WWW server by requesting said image information to said image providing WWW server;

storing said image information received in said step of receiving said image information, in association with said positional information of said image information; and

forming printing information for outputting a specific image as a publication, said specific image including said image represented by said stored image information and said text represented by said stored text information, which are arranged each at corresponding position on said template represented by said positional information associated with each of said image information and said text information.