Information processor having two-dimensional bar code processing function

• US 5,802,179 A
• Filed: 03/22/1996
• Issued: 09/01/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Hudspeth, David R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Opsasnick, Michael N.
• Application Number:
  US08/620,173
• Time in Patent Office: 893 Days
• Field of Search: 395/2.44, 395/2.79, 395/2.84-2.86
• US Class Current: 380/51
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/14 using light without selection of wavelength, e.g. sensing reflected white light G06K7/10831 - G06K7/1097 take precedence

Abstract

An information processor capable of scanning and printing two-dimensional bar codes representing sounds and moving images. The processor prints text and graphics, the two-dimensional bar codes, and relational information that correlates the bar codes of sounds and moving images to the associated text and graphics printed by the processor. In addition, the processor (or another processor) scans the printed information, bar codes and relational information. Having scanned the printed information, the processor displays the printed text and graphics in a manner that allows a person viewing the display to mark the displayed text and graphics, and hear the bar-coded sounds and images associated with the marked text and graphics.

Claims

1. An information processor having two-dimensional bar code processing function, comprising:

a visual information input portion inputting a visual information including document information, image information and graphic information;

a display portion displaying on a screen the visual information input by the visual information input portion;

a sound information input portion inputting sound information related to the visual information displayed on the screen;

a relative relational information input portion inputting relative relational information indicating that, the sound information input by the sound information input portion is the sound information related to the visual information displayed in a predetermined range of the screen;

a converting portion converting the sound information and the relative relational information into two-dimensional bar code information according to a predetermined procedure conversion;

a printing portion printing on a print sheet the visual information input by the visual information input portion and the two-dimensional bar code information converted by the converting portion;

a reading portion reading the visual information and the two-dimensional bar code information which are printed on the print sheet, and selectively displaying the visual information on a screen of the display portion;

a pointing device designating the predetermined range of the visual information displayed on the screen;

a restoring portion restoring the two-dimensional bar code information related to the visual information in the predetermined range designated by the pointing device into the sound information and the relative relational information; and

a reproducing portion identifying the sound information on the basis of the relative relational information, and reproducing the sound information according to a predetermined procedure reproduction.

2. The information processor having two-dimensional bar code processing function according to claim 1, further comprising a sound information synthesizing portion for synthesizing plural sound information based on said relative relational information.

3. The information processor having two-dimensional bar code processing function according to claim 2, wherein said relative relational information includes timing information for causing said sound information synthesizing portion to synthesize plural sound information.

4. The information processor having two-dimensional bar code processing function according to claim 1, wherein said converting portion has a function of converting visual information to two-dimensional bar code information according to the predetermined procedure for conversion, and said restoring portion has the function of restoring the two-dimensional bar code information to the visual information.

5. The information processor having two-dimensional bar code processing function according to claim 1, wherein said relative relational information includes reproduction condition information indicative of conditions on which said reproducing portion reproduces plural sound information.

6. The information processor having two-dimensional bar code processing function according to claim 1, further comprising a list information setting portion for setting list information indicative of the attribute, coordinates/size and comment of plural two-dimensional bar code information which are related to said visual information, a list information storage portion for storing the set list information, and a display control portion for displaying said list information on said display portion in a multi-window.

7. The information processor having two-dimensional bar code processing function according to claim 1, wherein said relative relational information includes modifying information for directing that the contents of the display of the visual information which is within the range related to the two-dimensional bar code information should be modified.

8. The information processor having two-dimensional bar code processing function according to claim 7, further comprising a modifying portion for modifying the contents of the visual information which is within the range related to the two-dimensional bar code information to those of the two-dimensional bar code information which is prepared in advance by the modifying directions of said relative relational information.

9. The information processor having two-dimensional bar code processing function according to claim 1, further comprising a range setting portion for setting the range of visual information related to two-dimensional bar code information, and a relative relational information creating portion for deciding whether the set ranges overlap each other or not, and additionally creating the identification code of the relational information which is within the overlapped range.

10. The information processor having two-dimensional bar code processing function according to claim 1, wherein said relative relational information includes position information indicative of the predetermined range of visual information and the range of two-dimensional bar code information related to said predetermined range.