Device for recording and retrieving of manually inputted data with a timing signal in an optical storage medium

• US 5,493,557 A
• Filed: 03/30/1994
• Issued: 02/20/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Schering Corporation (Merck & Co., Inc.), Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Chatani, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Epps, Georgia Y.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHU, KIM KWOK
• Application Number:
  US08/220,817
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 369/124, 369/275.3, 382/187, 382/315, 382/313, 382/314
• US Class Current: 178/18.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0225 User interface arrangements, e.g. keyboard, display; Interfaces to other computer systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0283 for data storage and retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information processor comprising a tablet for inputting script data; a timer for outputting a time signal; a RAM as a temporary storage means; a CPU responsive to every input of the script data from the tablet and storing in the RAM both the input script data and the time signal being outputted at that instant from the timer; and a magneto-optical recorder/reproducer for writing, on a disc as a recording medium, the time signal and the script data stored in the RAM. The information processor is capable of reproducing the script data in any of various modes inclusive of real time reproduction of each stroke, 10-stroke batch reproduction and 10-second batch reproduction, and can be formed into a small-sized structure while being equipped with a RAM of a great storage capacity.

Claims

1. A device for information processing comprising:

an input means for inputting data including script data, the script data being input by one or more strokes of a writing implement;

a time signal generating means for outputting a time signal representing time data;

a temporary memory means;

a processing means responsive to every stroke of the script data fed from said input means for storing in said memory means both the script data and the time signal being simultaneously outputted at that instant from said time signal generating means; and

a recording/reproducing means for writing on a disc recording medium both the script data and the time signal stored in said temporary memory means.

2. The device for information processing according to claim 1, wherein said processing means perform batch reproduction of the script data of a predetermined number of strokes on the basis of the time signal and the script data read out from said disc recording medium by said recording/reproducing means.

3. The device for information processing according to claim 1, wherein said processing means reproduces the script data in a real time mode by sequentially reproducing one stroke of script data at a time at timed intervals on the basis of the time signal and the script data read out from said disc recording medium by said recording/reproducing means.

4. The device for information processing according to claim 1, wherein said processing means performs batch reproduction of the script data inputted during a predetermined time period on the basis of the time signal and the script data read out from said disc recording medium by said recording/reproducing means.

5. A device for information processing comprising:

tablet input means for inputting script data a stroke at a time by means of a pen implement;

a time signal generating means for outputting a time data signal;

a temporary memory means;

a processing means responsive to every input stroke of the script data fed from the input means for storing in the temporary memory means both the script data and the time data signal being simultaneously outputted from the time signal generating means.

6. A device according to claim 5, wherein the device comprises a recording/reproducing means for writing on a disc recording medium both the script data and the time data signal stored in the temporary memory means.

7. A device for information processing comprising:

an input means for inputting script data on a stroke by stroke basis;

a time signal generating means for outputting a time data signal representing sequential periods of time;

a temporary memory means;

a storage medium;

a recording/reproducing means for recording on the storage medium and reproducing therefrom; and

a processing means operatively connected to the temporary memory means, the input means, the recording/reproducing means and the time signal generating means and responsive to every input stroke of the script data fed from the input means for storing in the temporary memory means both the script data and time data signal being outputted from the time signal generating means at the beginning and ending of every input stroke and thereafter causing the recording/reproducing means to record on the storage medium both the script data and the time data signal stored in the temporary memory means.

8. A device for information processing according to claim 7, wherein the processing means performs batch reproduction of the script data of a predetermined number of strokes on the basis of the time data signal and the script data read out from the storage medium by the recording/reproducing means.

9. A device for information processing according to claim 7, wherein the processing means performs batch reproduction of the script data input during a predetermined time period on the basis of the time data signal and the script data read out from the storage medium by the recording/reproducing means.