System for automatically processing a document including text and associated image information

• US 5,031,121 A
• Filed: 03/29/1990
• Issued: 07/09/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Doi, Miwako, Fukui, Mika, Iwai, Isamu
• Primary Examiner(s): Herndon, Heather R.
• Application Number:
  US07/501,961
• Time in Patent Office: 467 Days
• Field of Search: 364/518, 364/521, 364/522, 364/523, 340/723, 340/724, 382/41
• US Class Current: 715/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/289 Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A document processing system includes an input section, a memory section, a text analyzing section, an image identifying section, an image size identifying section, a layout processing section, and an output section. Document data is constituted by text data and image data. The test data includes key information corresponding to the image data, and the image data is laid out in the document data. The text data and image data input through the input section are stored in the memory section. The text analyzing section identifies a position in the document data at which the image data is to be laid out, based on a position of key information in the text data. The image identifying section identifies image data corresponding to the key information. The image size identifying section identifies an image size of the image data identified by the image identifying section. The layout processing section lays out the identified image data at the identified image layout position in accordance with a predetermined layout rule.

Claims

1. A document processing system comprising:

input means for entering document data including text data dn image data including image title data titling the image data, the text data selectively including the image title data;

memory means for storing the text data and the image data entered by means of said input means;

text analyzing means for recognizing a position of the image title data in the text data and identifying a position in the document data, at which the image data is to be assigned, from the position of the image title data in the text data;

image identifying means for identifying image data corresponding to the image title data with reference to the image data stored in said memory means;

image size identifying means for identifying an image size of the image data identified by said image identifying means;

layout processing means for laying out an image region o the identified image data, at the position of the image title data in the document data, in accordance with a predetermined layout rule determined by the image size; and

output means for outputting the document data including the image region laid out by said layout processing means.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein said image identifying means includes means for detecting that the image title data included in the image data coincides with the image title data included in the text data to identify image data to be inserted in the document data.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein the image title data is an image number inserted in the text data, said image data includes an image number and said image identifying means includes means for detecting that the image number included in the image data coincides with the image number included in the text data, to identify image data to be inserted in the document data.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein the image title data is a file name included in the text data s background data of the text, and said image identifying means comprises means for identifying image data written in a file designated by the file name as image data to be laid out.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein aid layout processing means comprises means for performing layout control in accordance with a layout rule for controlling a layout position such that an image region does not extend across two pages.

6. A system according to claim 1, wherein said layout processing means includes means for performing layout control in accordance with a layout rule for determining a layout position near the image title data in the text data.

7. A system according to claim 1, wherein said layout processing means includes means for varying the image size before an image region of the identified image data is laid out in the document data.

8. A system according to claim 1, wherein aid layout processing means includes means for altering the layout rule.

9. A document processing system comprising:

input means for entering document data including text data and image data including image title data, the text data selectively including the image title data;

memory means or storing the text data nd the image data entered by means of said input means;

text analyzing means for recognizing a position of the image title data in the text data an identifying a position in the document data, at which the image data is to be assigned, from the position of the image title data in the text data;

image identifying means for identifying image data corresponding to the image title data with reference to the image data stored in said memory means;

image size identifying means for identifying an image size of the image data identified by said image identifying means;

layout processing means for laying out an image region of the identified image data, at the position of the image title data in the document data, in accordance with the the position of the image title data dn the image size identified by said image size identifying means, with reference to a predetermined layout rule; and

output means for outputting the document data including the image region laid out by said layout processing means.

10. A system according to claim 9, wherein said image identifying means includes means or detecting that the image title data included in the image data coincides with the image title data included in the text data, to identify image data to be inserted in the document data.

11. A system according to claim 9, wherein the image title data is an image number inserted in the text data, said image data includes an image number , and said image identifying means includes means for detecting that the image number included in the image data coincides with the image number included in the text data, to identify image data to be insetted in the document data.

12. A system according to claim 9, wherein the image title data is a file name included in the text data as background data of the text, and said image identifying means comprises means for identifying image data written in a file designated by the file name as image data to be laid out.

13. A system according to claim 9, wherein said layout processing means comprises means for performing layout control in accordance with a layout rule for controlling a layout position such that an image region does not extend across two pages.

14. A system according to claim 9, wherein said layout processing means includes means for performing layout control in accordance with a layout rule for determining a layout position near the image title data in the text data.

15. A system according to claim 9, wherein said layout processing means includes means for varying the image size before an image region of the identified image data is laid out in the document data.

16. A system according to claim 9, wherein said layout processing means includes means for altering the layout rule.