System for capturing multimedia information using a hand writing stylus pen which performs signal-to-data conversion inside the pen and stores data in the memory inside the pen

• US 5,581,783 A
• Filed: 09/08/1992
• Issued: 12/03/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Ohashi, Katsuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Thomas C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PERVEEN, REHANA
• Application Number:
  US07/941,539
• Time in Patent Office: 1,547 Days
• Field of Search: 345/179, 345/180, 345/181, 345/182, 345/183, 364/709.01, 364/709.11, 395/106, 395/112, 395/162, 395/825, 395/154, 395/375, 358/473, 348/376
• US Class Current: 710/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L

Abstract

A multimedia information capturing apparatus consisting of a hand writing stylus pen and a data processing unit including a write and display tablet operating with the stylus pen. By means of the stylus pen, image and voice data are captured, memorized and transmitted to the data processing unit through a wireless data transmission route, and in the data processing unit, the image and voice data are displayed and sounded on the tablet and from a speaker respectively and text data on the image and voice data is made by operating the stylus pen with the tablet. The data on the captured image and voice and the text data are stored in the data processing unit, and the data stored in the data processing unit can be transfer to the stylus pen through the wireless transmission route and stored in the stylus pen.

Claims

1. A multimedia information capturing apparatus for capturing multimedia information and storing the multimedia information with a message of the multimedia information, the apparatus comprising:

a hand writing stylus pen for selecting a process for storing the multimedia information and adding the message to the stored multimedia information; and

data processing means for performing processes selected by said hand writing stylus pen,

said hand writing stylus pen including;

information capture means including first means for optically capturing multimedia information on a visual image and second means for acoustically capturing multimedia information on aural voice and producing by said first and second means captured multimedia information signals indicative of the captured information on the visual image and the captured information on the aural voice, respectively;

signal-to-data conversion means for converting the captured multimedia information signals received from the information capture means into multimedia information data;

memory means, coupled to said signal-to-data conversion means, for temporarily memorizing the multimedia information data;

data transmission means, coupled to said memory means, for receiving and transmitting the multimedia information data memorized in said memory means to said data processing means positioned exteriorly of said hand writing stylus pen;

at least said information capture means, said signal-to-data conversion means, and said data transmission means being positioned inside said hand writing stylus pen;

a select switch provided on said hand writing stylus pen and being coupled to said information capture means, for selecting operation of said information capture means, by selecting either an operation of capturing the visual image or an operation of capturing the aural voice;

a shutter switch provided on said hand writing stylus pen and being connected to said information capture means for making said information capture means start and stop an operation thereof; and

a data transmitting switch provided on said hand writing stylus pen and being coupled to said data transmission means, for making said data transmission means operate.

2. A multimedia information capturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said hand writing stylus pen further comprises data reception means for receiving multimedia information data on a visual image and aural voice from the exterior of the hand writing stylus pen and being coupled to said memory means for temporarily memorizing the multimedia information data received from said exterior into said memory means.

3. A multimedia information capturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said data processing means comprises:

data reception means for receiving the multimedia information data transmitted from said data transmission means of said hand writing stylus pen;

data storage means, coupled to said data receiving means, for storing the multimedia information data received at said data reception means;

write and display means for displaying operation menus of processes to be performed in said data processing means and a visual image produced from the multimedia information data stored in said data storage means and for allowing said hand writing stylus pen to select the operation menus and to write and draw the message of the multimedia information by placing said hand writing stylus pen against said write and display means;

voice reproduction means for reproducing the aural voice from the multimedia information data stored in said data storage means; and

data control and process means, coupled between said data storage means and said write and display means, for effecting displaying the operation menus on said write and display means and performing the processes selected by said hand writing stylus pen placed against said write and display means.

4. A multimedia information capturing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said hand writing stylus pen includes an additional data reception means and said data processing means further comprises additional data transmission means for transmitting the multimedia information data stored in said data storage means to said additional data reception means of said hand writing stylus pen, said additional data transmission means being operated to transmit the multimedia information data by said data control and process means in accordance with a command selected from the operation menus by placing said stylus pen against said write and display means.

5. A multimedia information capturing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said data transmission means and data reception means of said hand writing stylus pen comprise wireless transfer means, respectively.

6. A multimedia information capturing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said data transmission means and data reception means of said hand writing stylus pen and said data transmission means and data reception means of said data processing means comprise wireless transfer means, respectively.

7. A multimedia information capturing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said data transmission means and data reception means of said hand writing stylus pen comprise infrared ray transfer means, respectively.

8. A multimedia information capturing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said data transmission means and data reception means of said hand writing stylus pen and said data transmission means and data reception means of said data processing means comprise infrared ray transfer means, respectively.

9. A multimedia information capturing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said data processing means further comprises external memory means for reserving the multimedia information data stored in said data storage means and the message added to the multimedia information data.