INFORMATION BROWSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER TO READ, STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20130139045A1
• Filed: 11/27/2012
• Published: 05/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Inoue, Masayuki, Shibata, Tetsuhiro, Hyodo, Keiichiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,639,514 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/10 Character recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/1456 based on user interactions

Abstract

Provided is an information browsing apparatus provided with a display section on which display surface a touch panel to detect contact of an object is disposed. The information browsing apparatus is capable of displaying a document in a first display form where the entire display section is configured with a single region, and in a second display form where the display section is divided into a plurality of regions and provided with a data processing section. In case handwriting information is inputted straddling two or more than two regions in the second display form, the data processing section judges to which region the handwritten information belongs, thereafter when the display from is changed to the first display form, the data display section displays all of the handwritten information in the region which is judged that the hand written information belongs to the region thereof

Claims

1. A browsing apparatus enabling a first display form and a second display form, comprising:

a display section to display a document and handwritten information which shows a locus of an object on the display section;

a touch panel disposed on a display surface of the display section so as to detect contact with the object, and

a data processing section,

wherein in the first display form the document is displayed on the display section as a single region and in the second display form the display section is divided into a plurality of the regions so as to display the document, and in case the handwritten information is inputted straddling two or more than two regions in the second display form, the data processing section judges to which region the handwritten information belongs, thereafter when the second display form is changed to the first display from, the data processing section displays all of the handwritten information in the region which the handwritten information is judged to belong thereto.

2. The information browsing apparatus of claim 1, wherein in the first display form one page of the document is displayed all-over display section and in the second display form the display section is divided into the plurality of the regions so as to display a plurality of the pages of the document in the plurality of the regions, and in case the handwritten information is inputted straddling two or more than two regions in the second display form, the data processing section judges to which region the handwritten information belongs, then when displaying a page in the region which is judged that the handwritten information belongs thereto in the first display form, the data processing section displays all of the handwritten information in the page.

3. The information browsing apparatus of claim 1, wherein in the first display form, the document is displayed with a first magnification on the display section and in the second display form the display section is divided into the plurality of the regions and a predetermined region is magnified by a second magnification greater than the first magnification to be displayed, and in case the handwritten information is inputted straddling the predetermined region and another region than the predetermined region in the second display form, the data processing section judges to which region the hand written information belongs and when displaying the document in the first display form, the data processing section displays all of the handwritten information in the region which the handwritten information is judged to belong thereto.

4. The information browsing apparatus of claim 1, wherein in case the handwritten information is inputted straddling the plurality of the regions, the data processing section judges that the handwritten information belongs to a region to which a starting position of the handwritten information belongs.

5. The information browsing apparatus of claim 1, having a mode in which the region to which the handwriting information belongs is set in case the handwritten information is inputted straddling the plurality of the regions, and the data processing section judges the region to which the handwritten information belongs in accordance with setting in the mode.

6. The information browsing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data processing section moves or contracts and moves the handwritten information to the region which the handwritten information is judged to belong thereto.

7. The information browsing apparatus of claim 1, wherein in case subsequent handwritten information is inputted in a second region different from a first region within a predetermined time after precedent handwritten information is judged to belong to the first region, the data processing section judges that the subsequent handwritten information belongs to the first region.

8. An information browsing apparatus enabling a first display form and a second display form, comprising:

a display section to display a document and handwritten information which shows a locus of an object on the display section;

a touch panel disposed on a display surface of the display section so as to detect contact with the object, and

a data processing section,

wherein in the first display form the document is displayed with a first magnification on the display section and in the second display form the display section is divided into a plurality of regions and a predetermined region is magnified by a second magnification greater than the first magnification to be displayed, and in case the handwritten information is inputted straddling the predetermined region and another region than the predetermined region in the second display form, the data processing section judges that to which region the handwritten information belongs, then when displaying the document in the first display form, if the handwritten information. is judged to belong to the predetermined region, the data processing section contracts and displays all of the handwritten information in accordance with a change of magnification of the predetermined region.

9. A recording medium for a computer to read, storing a computer program to operate a browsing apparatus enabling a first display form and a second display form, which comprises:

a display section to display a document and handwritten information which shows a locus of an object on the display section;

a touch panel disposed on a display surface of the display section so as to detect contact with the object, and a data processing section, wherein in the first display form in the document is displayed on the display section as a single region and in the second display form the display section is divided into a plurality of the regions so as to display the document, and in case the handwritten information is inputted straddling two or more than two regions in the second display form, the data processing section judges to which region the handwritten information belongs, thereafter when the second display form is changed to the first display from, the data processing section displays all of the handwritten information in the region which the handwritten information is judged to belong thereto.

10. The recording medium for a computer to read, storing the computer program to operate the browsing apparatus of claim 9, wherein in the first display form one page of the document is displayed on the entire display section and in the second display form the display section is divided into the plurality of the regions so as to display a plurality of the pages of the document in the plurality of the regions, and in case the handwritten information is inputted straddling two or more than two regions in the second display form, the data processing section judges to which region the handwritten information belongs, then when displaying a page in the region which the handwritten information is judged to belong thereto in the first display form, the data processing section displays all the handwritten information in the page,

11. The recording medium for a computer to read, storing the computer program to operate the browsing apparatus of claim 9, wherein in the first display form, the document is displayed with a first magnification on the display section and in the second display form the display section is divided into the plurality of the regions and a predetermined region is magnified by a second magnification greater than the first magnification to be displayed, and in case the handwritten information is inputted straddling the predetermined region and another region than the predetermined region in the second display form, the data processing section judges to which region the hand written information belongs and when displaying the document in the first display form, the data processing section displays all of the handwritten information in the region Which the handwritten information is judged to belong thereto.

12. The recording medium for a computer to read, storing the computer program to operate the browsing apparatus of claim 9, wherein, in case the handwritten information is inputted straddling the plurality of the regions, the data processing section judges that the handwritten information belongs to a region to which a starting position of the handwritten information belongs.

13. The recording medium for a computer to read, storing a computer program to operate the browsing apparatus of claim 9, having a mode in which the region to which the handwriting information belongs is set, in case the handwritten information is inputted straddling the plurality of the regions, wherein the data processing section judges the region to which the handwritten information belongs in accordance with setting in the mode.

14. The recording medium for a computer to read, storing a computer program to operate the browsing apparatus of claim 9, wherein the data processing section moves or contracts and moves the handwritten information to the region which the handwritten information is judged to belong thereto.

15. The recording medium for a computer to read, storing the computer program to operate the browsing apparatus of claim 9, wherein in case subsequent handwritten information is inputted in a second region different from a first region within a predetermined time after precedent handwritten information is judged to belong to the first region, the data processing section judges that the subsequent handwritten information belongs to the first region.

16. A recording medium for a computer to read, storing a computer program to operate a browsing apparatus including a display section to display a document and handwritten information which shows a locus of an object on the display section, a touch panel disposed on a display surface of the display section so as to detect contact with the object and a data processing section, wherein in a first display form the document is displayed with a first magnification on the display section and in a second display form the display section is divided into a plurality of regions so as to display a predetermined region with a second magnification which is greater than the first magnification;

wherein the information browsing apparatus judges to which region the handwritten information belongs in case the hand written information is inputted straddling the predetermined region and another region than the predetermined region in the second display form, and contracts all of the handwritten information in accordance with a change of magnification of the predetermined region so as to display all of the handwritten information when the document is displayed in the first display form.