Information processing apparatus, method of generating document, and computer-readable recording medium

• US 20090180126A1
• Filed: 01/06/2009
• Published: 07/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Matulic, Fabrice
• Application Number:
  US12/318,684
• Publication Number:
  US 20090180126A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.100
• 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 40/30 Semantic analysis

Abstract

In an information processing apparatus, when input of content information is received, a content extracting unit extracts a plurality of contents each including the content information from among the contents contained in the document stored in a storage unit. Then, a relation calculating unit calculates a degree of semantic relatedness between the extracted contents, and a layout generating unit determines positions of the extracted contents on a new document based on the degree of the semantic relatedness and arranges the extracted contents on the positions thereby generating the new document.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a storage unit that stores therein a document containing a plurality of contents;

an input receiving unit that receives content information;

a content extracting unit that extracts a plurality of contents each including the content information from among the contents contained in the document stored in the storage unit;

a relation calculating unit that calculates a degree of semantic relatedness between extracted contents extracted by the content extracting unit; and

a layout generating unit that determines positions of the extracted contents on a new document based on the degree of the semantic relatedness and arranges the extracted contents on the positions thereby generating the new document.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

each of the contents includes any of image data and text data, and the image data includes attribute information indicating whether the image data includes a text, and

the content extracting unit extracts the contents based on the content information received by the input receiving unit and any of the attribute information included in the image data and a text included in the text data.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the attribute information is a text arranged around the image data, and

the content extracting unit extracts the contents based on the content information received by the input receiving unit and any of the attribute information arranged around the image data and the text included in the text data.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the relation calculating unit generates a relation chart indicating similarity between the extracted contents by comparing the extracted contents, and calculates the degree of the semantic relatedness between the extracted contents based on the relation chart.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the relation calculating unit generates a table indicating similarity between the extracted contents by comparing the extracted contents, and calculates the degree of the semantic relatedness between the extracted contents based on the table.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the input receiving unit receives area information indicating a predetermined area in the document, and

the content extracting unit extracts the contents from the predetermined area.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the relation calculating unit converts the degree of the semantic relatedness into a position relation in a coordinate system on the new document with one of the extracted contents as a reference, and

the layout generating unit determines positions of the extracted contents on the new document based on the position relation.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reading unit that reads data including any of a text and an image included in the document and stores the data read by the reading unit in the storage unit; and

a print unit that prints out the new document.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the information processing apparatus is an image forming apparatus.

10. A method of generating a document, the method comprising:

storing a document containing a plurality of contents in a storage unit;

receiving content information;

extracting a plurality of contents each including the content information from among the contents contained in the document stored in the storage unit;

calculating a degree of semantic relatedness between extracted contents extracted at the extracting;

determining positions of the extracted contents on a new document based on the degree of the semantic relatedness; and

arranging the extracted contents on the positions determined at the determining thereby generating the new document.

11. A computer-readable recording medium that stores therein a computer program containing computer program codes which when executed on a computer causes the computer to execute:

storing a document containing a plurality of contents in a storage unit;

receiving content information;

extracting a plurality of contents each including the content information from among the contents contained in the document stored in the storage unit;

calculating a degree of semantic relatedness between extracted contents extracted at the extracting;

determining positions of the extracted contents on a new document based on the degree of the semantic relatedness; and

arranging the extracted contents on the positions determined at the determining thereby generating the new document.