IMAGE PROCESSOR, RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER DATA SIGNAL

• US 20080180700A1
• Filed: 06/28/2007
• Published: 07/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyata, Shigeo
• Granted Patent: US 8,223,391 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.6
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking

Abstract

An image processor according to the present invention includes a reference information acquisition unit that acquires reference information for specifying a reference source and a reference target associated with the reference source from an electronic document having the reference information indicated therein, and a print instruction information production unit that produces print instruction information including an instruction for causing a printing device to print a reference source index for representing a reference source in a margin region located at a peripheral edge of a reference source page specified based on the reference information, and an instruction for causing the printing device to print a reference target index for representing a reference target in a region overlapping the region where the reference source index is printed in a margin region located at a peripheral edge of a reference target page specified based on the reference information.

Claims

1. An image processor, comprising:

a reference information acquisition unit that acquires reference information for specifying a reference source and a reference target associated with the reference source from an electronic document having the reference information indicated therein; and

a print instruction information production unit that produces print instruction information including an instruction for causing a printing device to print a reference source index for representing a reference source in a margin region located at a peripheral edge of a reference source page specified based on the reference information, and an instruction for causing the printing device to print a reference target index for representing a reference target in a region overlapping the region where the reference source index is printed in a margin region located at a peripheral edge of a reference target page specified based on the reference information.

2. The image processor according to claim 1, wherein

the print instruction information production unit produces the print instruction information so that the reference source indices of reference sources associated with the same reference target are printed in regions overlapping each other in the margin region located at the peripheral edge of the respective reference source pages.

3. The image processor according to claim 1, wherein

the reference source index indicates position information for specifying a position of the reference source on a sheet.

4. The image processor according to claim 1, wherein

the reference target index indicates position information for specifying a position of the reference target on a sheet.

5. The image processor according to claim 1, wherein

the print instruction information production unit produces the print instruction information, so that when a plurality of index pairs, each formed by a single reference target index and at least one reference source index corresponding to the single reference target index, are printed in overlapping regions in a margin region located at each peripheral edge of different pages, each index pair is printed to be visually distinguishable from other index pairs.

6. The image processor according to claim 1, wherein

a maximum number of reference target indices printable on a sheet is predetermined based on an area of the reference target index and an area of the margin region at the peripheral edge of a sheet, and

the reference information acquisition unit narrows down the reference information based on predetermined conditions so that the number of reference targets acquired from the electronic document does not exceed the maximum number.

7. The image processor according to claim 6, wherein

the reference information acquisition unit narrows down the reference information using as the predetermined conditions reception of designation of a range for which the reference information is acquired from the electronic document so that the reference information is acquired within the designated range.

8. The image processor according to claim 6, wherein

the reference information acquisition unit narrows down the reference information using as the predetermined conditions selection of the reference information in descending order starting with the one having the largest number of reference sources associated with the reference target.

9. The image processor according to claim 6, wherein

the reference information acquisition unit narrows down the reference information using as the predetermined conditions selection of the reference information in descending order starting with the one having the largest number of pages inserted between a page including the reference source and the page including the reference target.

10. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for producing print instruction information given to a printing device, the process comprising:

acquiring reference information for specifying a reference source and a reference target associated with the reference source from an electronic document having the reference information indicated therein; and

producing the print instruction information including an instruction for causing the printing device to print a reference source index for representing a reference source in a margin region located at a peripheral edge of a reference source page specified based on the reference information, and an instruction for causing the printing device to print a reference target index for representing a reference target in a region overlapping the region where the reference source index is printed in a margin region located at a peripheral edge of a reference target page specified based on the reference information.

11. A method of producing print instruction information given to a printing device, the method comprising:

acquiring reference information for specifying a reference source and a reference target associated with the reference source from an electronic document having the reference information indicated therein; and

producing the print instruction information including an instruction for causing the printing device to print a reference source index for representing a reference source in a margin region located at a peripheral edge of a reference source page specified based on the reference information, and an instruction for causing the printing device to print a reference target index for representing a reference target in a region overlapping the region where the reference source index is printed in a margin region located at a peripheral edge of a reference target page specified based on the reference information.

12. A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave for enabling a computer to perform a process for producing print instruction information given to a printing device, the process comprising:

acquiring reference information for specifying a reference source and a reference target associated with the reference source from an electronic document having the reference information indicated therein; and

producing the print instruction information including an instruction for causing the printing device to print a reference source index for representing a reference source in a margin region located at a peripheral edge of a reference source page specified based on the reference information, and an instruction for causing the printing device to print a reference target index for representing a reference target in a region overlapping the region where the reference source index is printed in a margin region located at a peripheral edge of a reference target page specified based on the reference information.