Methods and Systems for Document Manipulation

• US 20070146823A1
• Filed: 03/12/2007
• Published: 06/28/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Borchers, Gregory, Mathieson, Rono
• Granted Patent: US 8,171,404 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/496
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00464 using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00503 Customising to a particular machine or model, machine function or application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for manipulating documents.

Claims

1. A method for document manipulation, said method comprising:

a) receiving at least one input document at a computing device;

b) determining a document map associated with said at least one input document, wherein said document map comprises a first region-of-interest; and

c) generating a first combined document comprising the document content in said first region-of-interest from each of said at least one input documents.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein said determining a document map comprises requesting said document map from a remote resource.

3. A method as described in claim 1, wherein said at least one input document is an examination document.

4. A method as described in claim 3, wherein said first region-of-interest corresponds to a first answer region in said examination document.

5. A method as described in claim 1, wherein said receiving is from an imaging device.

6. A method as described in claim 1 further comprising:

a) sending said first combined document to an imaging device.

7. A method as described in claim 1 further comprising:

a) receiving a modified first combined document at said computing device, wherein said modified first combined document comprises a first marking region associated with each of said at least one input documents; and

b) generating a modified input document corresponding to each of said at least one input documents, wherein said modified input document corresponding to each of said at least one input documents comprises the content from said modified first combined document in said first marking region associated with each of said at least one input documents.

8. A method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

a) sending said modified input documents corresponding to each of said at least one input documents to an imaging device.

9. A method for imaging device remote document combination, said method comprising:

a) receiving a document-combination request from a first imaging device;

b) sending display content to said first imaging device, said display content comprising a list of available document combinations;

c) receiving a document-combination selection from said first imaging device;

d) receiving at least one input document from said first imaging device;

e) determining a document map associated with said document-combination selection, wherein said document map comprises a first region-of-interest; and

f) generating a first combined document comprising the document content in said first region-of-interest from each of said at least one input documents received from said first imaging device.

10. A method as described in claim 9, wherein said at least one input document is an examination document.

11. A method as described in claim 10, wherein said first region-of-interest corresponds to a first answer region in said examination document.

12. A method as described in claim 9, wherein said determining a document map associated with said document-combination selection comprises requesting said document map from a remote resource.

13. A method as described in claim 9, wherein said display content is formatted in a markup language.

14. A method as described in claim 9 further comprising:

a) generating a second combined document comprising the document content in a second region-of-interest from each of said at least one input documents received from said first imaging device, wherein said document map comprises said second region-of-interest.

15. A method as described in claim 9 further comprising:

a) sending said first combined document to a second imaging device.

16. A method as described in claim 15, wherein said first imaging device and said second imaging device are the same imaging device.

17. A method as described in claim 9 further comprising:

a) receiving a modified first combined document, wherein said modified first combined document comprises a first marking region associated with each of said at least one input documents; and

b) generating a modified input document corresponding to each of said at least one input documents, wherein said modified input document corresponding to each of said at least one input documents comprises the content from said modified first combined document in said first marking region associated with each of said at least one input documents.

18. A method as described in claim 17 further comprising:

a) sending said modified input documents corresponding to each of said at least one input documents to a third imaging device.

19. A method as described in claim 18, wherein said first imaging device and said third imaging device are the same imaging device.

20. A method for imaging device remote document combination, said method comprising:

a) receiving a document-combination request at an imaging device from a user interface on said imaging device;

b) sending said document-combination request from said imaging device to a remote computing device;

c) receiving said document-combination request from said imaging device at said remote computing device;

d) sending display content to said imaging device from said remote computing device, said display content comprising a list of available document combinations;

e) displaying said display content at said imaging device;

f) receiving a document-combination selection at said imaging device from said user interface on said imaging device;

g) sending said document-combination selection to said remote computing device from said imaging device;

h) receiving said document-combination selection at said remote computing device from said imaging device;

i) receiving at least one input document at said imaging device;

j) sending said at least one input document from said imaging device to said remote computing device;

k) receiving at least one input document from said imaging device;

l) determining, at said remote computing device, a document map associated with said document-combination selection, wherein said document map comprises a first region-of-interest; and

m) generating, at said remote computing device, a first combined document comprising the document content in said first region-of-interest from each of said at least one input documents received from said imaging device.