Information processing system
First Claim
1. An interactive information processing system responsive to human operator movement of physical objects comprising:
- a discriminator for discriminating physical objects and generating an electronic physical object image signal representative of physical attributes of a physical object; and
a menu driven physical object attribute definition system for accommodating operator storage of physical attributes of a plurality of physical objects utilizing the electronic physical object image signal from the discriminator.
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Abstract
An information processing system includes a desk with a planar display unit which also accommodates physical objects to be manipulated by the operator. The physical objects are representative of physical objects normally used in office environments when handling paper files. A camera is provided which continuously monitors the desk display surface and is coupled to an electronic computer which can be controlled by the operator by moving the physical objects and the operator hands to simulate paper processing tasks, such as mailing, faxing, filing, opening files, editing and the like. An operator driven menu is provided on the desk display surface for facilitating operator classification and storage of physical object shapes of those physical objects which are to be used.
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40 Claims
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1. An interactive information processing system responsive to human operator movement of physical objects comprising:
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a discriminator for discriminating physical objects and generating an electronic physical object image signal representative of physical attributes of a physical object; and
a menu driven physical object attribute definition system for accommodating operator storage of physical attributes of a plurality of physical objects utilizing the electronic physical object image signal from the discriminator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 40)
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17. An information processing apparatus comprising:
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a display unit;
a camera unit for photographing an image object displayed on said display unit, and a physical object and the hands of an operator placed on said display unit;
recognition means for recognizing the physical object from an image from said camera unit;
attribute definition means for defining an associated motion between the physical object recognized by said recognition means and said image object;
attribute association processing means for executing an associated motion defined by said attribute definition means for said image object when a comparison value between a characteristic point coordinate of the physical object recognized by said recognition means and another characteristic point coordinate of another physical object, or between characteristic point coordinates in said image object is within a predetermined value; and
means for automatically starting said attribute association processing means when said image object or said physical object is recognized to be a hold-state by gesture recognition means.
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18. An information processing apparatus provided with a display unit with a display surface on a horizontal arrangement in which data can be displayed in a document sheet format, and a camera unit for photographing the hands of an operator placed on the display surface of said display unit as well as the data displayed on said display surface of said display unit, comprising:
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definition file store means for storing various information processing motions each corresponding to each of various states of images representative of hand gestures; and
process execution means for executing a particular information processing operation for said data upon recognition that a distance between an image of the hand and said data is judged to be within a predetermined value according to images from said camera unit, and that an association for carrying out said particular information process operation intended by the operator is identified between the image of the hand and said definition file store means.
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23. An information processing apparatus provided with a flat panel display capable of displaying a document object including plural pages each being partially overlapped, comprising:
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layout coordinate designation means for designating a start point coordinate and an end point coordinate for layouting said document object;
page layout coordinate calculation means for obtaining respective coordinates for layouting respective pages of said document from said start and said end point coordinates; and
layout display means for displaying respective pages of said document on respective coordinates obtained by said page layout coordinate calculation means.
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27. A method of information processing using an electronic computing system and a plurality of operator manipulated physical objects corresponding to traditionally used objects for handling paper files in an office, comprising:
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selecting a plurality of physical objects;
electronically imaging a first one of the physical objects, and generating a first electronic image signal reflective of the first physical object, utilizing an object attribute definition system menu to manually classify the first physical object by object type and to store the first electronic image signal with its object type;
electronically imaging a second one of the physical objects and generating a second electronic image signal reflective of the second physical object, utilizing the object attribute definition system menu to manually classify the second physical object type and to store the second electronic image signal with its object type; and
subsequently processing information in a file storage unit of the electronic computing system by moving at least one of the physical objects with respect to an image display reflection of at least one other of the physical objects.
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29. An information processing system responsive to user movement of a physical object, comprising:
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a display unit, a physical object discriminator, a file storage unit containing electronically stored information, a link storage unit containing information reflective of a physical object discriminated by the discriminator and corresponding information in the file storage unit, and a file operator for processing information from the storage unit and link storage unit to accomplish interactive processing of information from the file storage unit in response to at least one characteristic of the physical object.
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34. An information processing system using a user manipulated object, comprising:
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a display device, file storage means for storing electronic information, discrimination means for discriminating an object indicated by a user, link storage means for storing link information which designates the correspondence between said object and the electronic information stored in said file storage means, and file operation means for reading the electronic information corresponding to the discrimination result of the object by said discrimination means from said file storage means on the basis of said link information and for displaying it on said display device.
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35. An information processing system using a user manipulated object, comprising:
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a display device, file storage means for storing electronic information, discrimination means for discriminating an object indicated by a user, link storage means for storing link information which designates the correspondence between said object and the electronic information stored in said file storage means, link definition means for generating link information for displaying the electronic information corresponding to the discrimination result of the object on said display device, means for displaying the discrimination result of the object by said discrimination means and the electronic information stored in said file storage means, and means for designating the correspondence between the selected electronic information among said displayed electronic information and said discrimination result.
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38. An information processing system using a user manipulated object, comprising:
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a display device, file storage means for storing electronic information, discrimination means for discriminating an object indicated by a user, link storage means for storing link information which designates the correspondence between said object and the electronic information stored in said file storage means, and link definition means for displaying the electronic information corresponding to the discrimination result of the object on said display device and displaying a dialogue screen for accepting a change in said stored link information on said display device.
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39. An information processing system using an object wherein said system comprises:
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a display device, file storage means for storing electronic information, discrimination means for discriminating an object indicated by a user, link storage means for storing link information which designates the correspondence between said object and the electronic information stored in said file storage means, attribute discrimination means for discriminating the attribute information added to said object, and file operation means for executing the operation on the basis of said discriminated attribute information for the electronic information having the correspondence with said discriminated object.
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Specification