Paper Medium, Information Input Device, and Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium

• US 20150160733A1
• Filed: 09/17/2014
• Published: 06/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Inventors: Ito, Chitoshi
• Application Number:
  US14/489,049
• Publication Number:
  US 20150160733A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0383 Signal control means within the pointing device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/171 by use of digital ink
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging

Abstract

A paper medium includes an information writing area, a first command area, and a second command area. The information writing area is an area that allows a writing instrument to write one or more linear figures that express information. The first command area is an area that allows the writing instrument to write a linear figure for issuing a command to create a first linear figure file. The second command area is an area that allows the writing instrument to write a linear figure for issuing a command to create a second linear figure file.

Claims

1. A paper medium comprising:

an information writing area that is provided on a surface of the paper medium, the information writing area being an area that allows a writing instrument to write one or more linear figures that express information;

a first command area that is provided on the surface of the paper medium in a different position from the information writing area, the first command area being an area that allows the writing instrument to write a linear figure for issuing a command to create a first linear figure file, the first linear figure file being a file that describes at least one of the one or more linear figures that are written in the information writing area; and

a second command area that is provided on the surface of the paper medium in a different position from the information writing area and the first command area, the second command area being an area that allows the writing instrument to write a linear figure for issuing a command to create a second linear figure file, the second linear figure file being a file that describes all of the one or more linear figures that are written in the information writing area.

2. The paper medium according to claim 1, wherein:

the paper medium has a rectangular shape that extends vertically and horizontally, and

the second command area is provided in a corner portion of the surface of the paper medium.

3. The paper medium according to claim 2, wherein:

the second command area is provided in one of a lower right corner portion and lower left corner portion of the surface of the paper medium, and

the first command area is provided adjacent to the second command area.

4. The paper medium according to claim 2, wherein:

the information writing area has a substantially rectangular shape that extends vertically and horizontally and whose edges follow edges of the surface of the paper medium, and

the first command area has a narrow, substantially rectangular shape that extends vertically or horizontally along the information writing area.

5. The paper medium according to claim 1, wherein:

each of the first command area and the second command area is a check box.

6. An information input device comprising:

a placement portion that is configured to allow a paper medium to be placed thereon;

a detection portion that is configured to detect writing positions, the writing positions being positions of a writing instrument that writes one or more linear figures on a surface of the paper medium that is placed on the placement portion;

a processor; and

a memory storing computer-readable instructions, the instructions, when executed by the processor, perform processes comprising;

acquiring one or more linear figure data sets based on the writing positions that are detected by the detection portion, each of the one or more linear figure data sets describing a path of the writing instrument that writes corresponding one of the one or more linear figures;

determining, based on the one or more linear figure data sets that are acquired, in which one of an information writing area, a first command area, and a second command area is written each one of the one or more linear figures that are provided on the surface of the paper medium in different positions;

storing, in a storage portion, one or more linear figure data sets for each of which it is determined that the corresponding linear figure is written in the information writing area, from among the one or more linear figure data sets that are acquired;

creating the first linear figure file based on the one or more linear figure data sets that are stored in the storage portion, in a case where it is determined that one of the one or more linear figures is written in the first command area; and

creating the second linear figure file based on the one or more linear figure data sets that are stored in the storage portion, in a case where it is determined that one of the one or more linear figures is written in the second command area.

7. The information input device according to claim 6, wherein:

the creating of the first linear figure file creates the first linear figure file based on one or more first specific linear figures, the one or more first specific linear figures being one or more linear figures that, among all of the one or more linear figures that are written in the information writing area, are written in the information writing area after all of one or more first previous linear figures, each of the one or more first previous linear figures being described by one of the first linear figure file that was created in a preceding round of creating the first linear figure file and the second linear figure file that was created in a preceding round of creating the second linear figure file; and

the creating the second linear figure file creates the second linear figure file based on one or more second specific linear figures, the one or more second specific linear figures being one or more linear figures that, among all of the one or more linear figures that are written in the information writing area, are written in the information writing area after all of one or more second previous linear figures, each of the one or more second previous linear figures being described by the second linear figure file that was created in the preceding round of creating the second linear figure file.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions, the instructions, when executed by a processor of a computer, performing processes comprising:

specifying one or more information linear figure data sets from among the one or more linear figure data sets that are stored in a storage portion that is configured to be accessed by the computer, each of the one or more linear figure data sets describing a path of a writing instrument that writes corresponding one of the one or more linear figures on a surface of the paper medium, the surface of the paper medium including an information writing area, a first command area, and a second command area that are provided on the surface of the paper medium in different positions, each of the one or more information linear figure data sets describing one of the one or more linear figures that have been written in the information writing area;

specifying a first command data set from among the one or more linear figure data sets that are stored in the storage portion, the first command data set describing a linear figure that has been written in the first command area;

specifying a second command data set from among the one or more linear figure data sets that are stored in the storage portion, the second command data set describing a linear figure that has been written in the second command area;

creating the first linear figure file based on the specified one or more information linear figure data sets, in a case where the first command data set is specified; and

creating the second linear figure file based on the specified one or more information linear figure data sets, in a case where the second command data set is specified.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein:

the creating of the first linear figure file includes creating the first linear figure file based on the one or more information linear figure data sets that are created within a first period, the first period being a period that starts from a first creation date and time and ends with a second creation date and time, the first creation date and time being a creation date and time for a first target command data set, the second creation date and time being a creation date and time for a second target command data set, the first target command data set being one of the first command data set and the second command data set, the second target command data set being one of the first command data set and the second command data set that is created first after the first creation date and time; and

the creating of the second linear figure file includes creating the second linear figure file based on the one or more information linear figure data sets that are created within a second period, the second period being a period that starts from a third creation date and time and ends with a fourth creation date and time, the third creation date and time being a creation date and time for a third target command data set, the fourth creation date and time being a creation date and time for a fourth target command data set, the third target command data set being the second command data set, the fourth target command data set being the second command data set that is created first after the third creation date and time.