Document creating apparatus creates free format document from handwritten data converting into normalized size

• US 6,317,762 B1
• Filed: 11/07/1996
• Issued: 11/13/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Sato, Yasuo, Matsukura, Ryuichi, Okawa, Toru
• Primary Examiner(s): Choules, Jack
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T
• Application Number:
  US08/744,993
• Time in Patent Office: 1,832 Days
• Field of Search: 707/520-521, 707/526, 707/529, 707/541, 707/500, 707/523, 707/539, 382/180, 382/181, 382/186-187, 382/190, 382/103, 382/313, 382/294, 382/151, 382/290, 382/293, 382/182, 382/189, 382/229, 345/179, 345/358, 345/173, 345/467, 345/114, 345/127, 178/18.01, 178/18.02, 178/18.03, 704/224, 704/234
• US Class Current: 715/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/32 Digital ink

Abstract

A document creating apparatus creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen. The document creating apparatus includes a setting mechanism for setting on the display screen one or a plurality of normalized regions having a normalized size as an attribute and one or a plurality of non-normalized regions having no normalized size as the attribute, a judging mechanism for judging whether input data are input to the normalized region or the non-normalized region, a first storing mechanism for converting a size of the input data into a normalized size of the normalized region and storing the normalized input data in a memory when the judging mechanism judges that the input data are input to the normalized region, and a second storing mechanism for storing the input data in the memory as they are when the judging mechanism judges that the input data are input to the non-normalized region.

Claims

1. A document creating apparatus which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said document creating apparatus comprising:

a setting unit setting on the display screen one or a plurality of normalized regions having a normalized size as an attribute and one or a plurality of non-normalized regions having no normalized size as the attribute so that said one or a plurality of normalized regions and said one or a plurality of non-normalized regions coexist on the display screen;

a judging unit judging whether input data are input to the normalized region or the non-normalized region;

a memory;

a first storing unit, coupled to said memory and responsive to said judging unit, converting a size of the input data into a normalized size of the normalized region and storing the normalized input data in said memory when said judging unit judges that the input data are input to the normalized region;

a second storing unit, coupled to said memory and responsive to said judging unit, storing the input data in said memory as they are when said judging unit judges that the input data are input to the non-normalized region; and

a display device, coupled to the memory, displaying a document so that the size converted input data stored by the first storing unit and the input data stored as they are by the second storing unit coexist in the displayed document.

2. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 1, which further comprises:

a displaying unit, responsive to said setting unit, displaying the normalized region and the non-normalized region using mutually different display formats on the display screen.

3. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 1, which further comprises:

a first setting changing unit cancelling and changing at least a portion of the normalized region to a non-normalized region after the input data are input.

4. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 1, which further comprises:

a second setting changing unit cancelling and changing at least a portion of the non-normalized region to a normalized region after the input data are input.

5. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 1, which further comprises:

a third setting changing unit cancelling the normalized size of the normalized region in at least a portion of the normalized region and setting a normalized region having another normalized size within the cancelled portion.

6. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 1, which further comprises:

a first converting unit converting a region size of one of the normalized and non-normalized regions into a specified size after the input data are input, and converting a size of all data of the region subject to the conversion and stored in said memory depending on the conversion of the region size.

7. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 1, which further comprises:

a second converting unit converting a size of data stored in said memory and corresponding to a portion of one of the normalized and non-normalized regions into a specified size after the input data are input.

8. A document creating apparatus which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said document creating apparatus comprising:

a setting unit setting on the display screen a plurality of normalized regions having different normalized sizes, said plurality of normalized regions coexisting on the display screen with a non-normalized region;

a judging unit judging one of said normalized regions to which input data are input;

a memory;

a storing unit, coupled to said memory and responsive to said judging unit, converting a size of the input data into a normalized size of the normalized region judged by said judging unit and storing the converted input data in said memory; and

a display device, coupled to the memory, displaying the converted input data stored in the memory in a document so that the converted data coexists in the document with non-normalized input data input to the non-normalized region.

9. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 8, which further comprises:

a displaying unit, responsive to said setting unit, displaying each of the normalized regions using mutually different display formats on the display screen.

10. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 8, which further comprises:

a setting changing unit cancelling the normalized size in at least a portion of the normalized region and setting a normalized region having another normalized size within the cancelled portion.

11. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 8, which further comprises:

a changing unit changing a size of data subject to processing and stored in said memory when carrying out one of move and copy operations so that a size of data to be moved or copied matches a size of data a moving or copying destination, said data subject to processing being one of data to be moved or copied to another normalized region and data at the moving or copying destination.

12. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 8, which further comprises:

a first converting unit converting a region size of the normalized region into a specified size after the input data are input, and converting a size of all of data of the region subject to the conversion and stored in said memory depending on the conversion of the region size.

13. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 8, which further comprises:

a second converting unit converting a size of data stored in said memory and corresponding to a portion of the normalized region into a specified size after the input data are input.

14. A document creating apparatus which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said document creating apparatus comprising:

a memory;

a first input mode for inputting input data to a normalized region set on the display screen and storing the input data in said memory after converting a size of the input data into a normalized size;

a second input mode for inputting the input data to a non-normalized region set on the display screen and coexisting on the display screen with said normalized region, and storing the input data in said memory without converting the size of the input data into the normalized size;

a setting changing unit cancelling the input mode in at least a portion of the region to which the input data are input in one of said first and second input modes, and changing the cancelled portion into a region to which an input is made in the other of said first and second input modes; and

a display device displaying the converted input data stored by the first input mode and the non-converted input data stored by the second input mode in a document on the display screen so that the displayed converted data and non-converted data coexist in the displayed document.

15. A document creating apparatus which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said document creating apparatus comprising:

a memory;

a storing unit storing input data in said memory after converting a size of the input data into a normalized size; and

a setting changing unit cancelling the normalized size used to input the input data in at least a portion of a data input region on the display screen, and setting a data input region having another normalized size within the cancelled portion.

16. A document creating apparatus comprising:

a keyboard generating code data;

a converting unit converting the code data generated from said keyboard into character/symbol data related to at least one of characters and symbols;

a handwritten data input device generating handwritten data; and

a generating unit generating displaying data for displaying the handwritten data by changing a size of the handwritten data generated from said handwritten data input device to a size of the character/symbol data output from said converting unit.

17. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 16, which further comprises:

a recognizing unit recognizing the handwritten data generated from said handwritten data input device and inputting the code data indicated by the recognized handwritten data to said converting unit.

18. A document creating apparatus comprising:

a keyboard generating code data;

a converting unit converting the code data generated from said keyboard into character/symbol data related to at least one of characters and symbols;

a handwritten data input device generating handwritten data;

a normalizing unit generating displaying data for displaying the handwritten data by normalizing a size of the handwritten data generated from said handwritten data input device; and

a generating unit generating displaying data for displaying the character/symbol data by changing a size of the character/symbol data output from said converting unit to a size of the handwritten data output from said normalizing unit.

19. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 18, which further comprises:

a recognizing unit recognizing the handwritten data generated from said handwritten data input device and inputting the code data indicated by the recognized handwritten data to said converting unit.

20. A document creating apparatus comprising:

a keyboard generating code data;

a converting unit converting the code data generated from said keyboard into character/symbol data related to at least one of characters and symbols;

a handwritten data input device generating handwritten data;

an image memory unit storing the handwritten data;

a display memory unit;

a developing unit developing the character/symbol data output from said converting unit in said image memory unit; and

a displaying unit generating displaying data for displaying a created document and to be stored in said display memory unit from the data stored in said image memory unit the handwritten data and the character/symbol data thereby both being processed as image data so that the created document has a format in which the handwritten data and fair copy data of said at least one of characters and symbols coexist in the created document.

21. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 20, which further comprises:

a normalizing unit normalizing a size of the handwritten data generated from said handwritten data input device and storing the normalized handwritten data in said image memory unit.

22. A document creating apparatus comprising:

a keyboard generating code data;

a converting unit converting the code data generated from said keyboard into character/symbol data related to at least one of characters and symbols;

a handwritten data input device generating handwritten data;

a first image memory unit storing image data;

a second image memory unit storing the handwritten data;

a developing unit developing the character/symbol data output from said converting unit in said first image memory unit; and

a generating unit generating displaying data for displaying a created document and to be stored in said display memory unit from the data stored in said image memory unit and the data stored in said second image memory unit, the handwritten data and the character/symbol data thereby both being processed as image data so that the created document has a format in which the handwritten data and fair copy data of said at least one of characters and symbols coexist in the created document.

23. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 22, which further comprises:

a normalizing unit normalizing a size of the handwritten data generated from said handwritten data input device and storing the normalized handwritten data in said second image memory units.

24. A document creating apparatus comprising:

a handwritten data input device generating handwritten data;

an extracting unit extracting a handwritten data block made up of an input unit of one or a plurality of handwritten data out of the handwritten data input from said handwritten data input device;

an assigning unit assigning a label written by one or a plurality of code data with respect to the handwritten data block extracted by said extracting unit;

a managing unit managing management data related to a corresponding relationship of the label assigned by said assigning unit and the corresponding handwritten data; and

a retrieving unit retrieving handwritten data for which a retrieval request is made by referring to the management data of said managing unit in response to the retrieval request for the handwritten data specifying the label thereof.

25. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein a portion of the handwritten data block extracted by said extracting unit includes an image of character/symbol data indicated by the code data, said character/symbol data being related to at least one of characters and symbols.

26. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 24, which further comprises:

a image memory unit storing handwritten data; and

a normalizing unit normalizing a size of the handwritten data generated from said handwritten data input device and storing the normalized handwritten data in said image memory unit.

27. A document creating apparatus comprising:

a handwritten data input device generating handwritten data;

an assigning unit assigning code data of character/symbol data with respect to an input unit of the handwritten data block generated from said handwritten data input device, said character/symbol data being related to at least one of characters and symbols;

a managing unit managing management data related to a corresponding relationship of the code data assigned by said assigning unit and the corresponding input unit of the handwritten data;

a retrieving unit retrieving handwritten data corresponding to input code data if the input code data is registered in said managing unit; and

a selecting unit selecting the handwritten data retrieved by said retrieving unit as input data in place of the character symbol data indicated by the input code data.

28. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 27, which further comprises:

an image memory unit storing handwritten data; and

a normalizing unit normalizing a size of the handwritten data generated from said handwritten data input device and storing the normalized handwritten data in said image memory unit.

29. The document creating apparatus as claimed in claim 27, wherein said assigning unit assigns the code data of the character/symbol data corresponding to the handwritten data with respect to the input unit of the handwritten data input from said handwritten data input device.

30. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing document processing which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said computer program product comprising:

a setting unit setting on the display screen one or a plurality of normalized regions having a normalized size as an attribute and one or a plurality of non-normalized regions having no normalized size as the attribute so that said one or a plurality of normalized regions and said one or a plurality of non-normalized regions coexist on the display screen;

a judging unit judging whether input data are input to the normalized region or the non-normalized region;

a first storing unit, responsive to said judging unit, converting a size of the input data into a normalized size of the normalized region and storing the normalized input data in a memory when said judging unit judges that the input data are input to the normalized region;

a second storing unit, coupled to said memory and responsive to said judging unit, storing the input data in said memory as they are when said judging unit judges that the input data are input to the non-normalized region; and

a display device displaying a document so that the size-converted input data stored by the first storing unit and the input data stored as they are by the second storing unit coexist in the displayed document.

31. The computer program product as claimed in claim 30, which further comprises:

a displaying unit, responsive to said setting unit, displaying the normalized region and the non-normalized region using mutualy different display formats on the display screen.

32. The computer program product as claimed in claim 30, which further comprises:

a first setting changing unit cancelling and changing at least a portion of the normalized region to a non-normalized region after the input data are input.

33. The computer program product as claimed in claim 30, which further comprises:

a second setting changing unit cancelling and changing at least a portion of the non-normalized region to a normalize region after the input data are input.

34. The computer program product as claimed in claim 30, which further comprises:

a third setting changing unit cancelling the normalized size of the normalized region in at least a portion of the normalized region and setting a normalized region having another normalized size within the cancelled portion.

35. The computer program product as claimed in claim 30, which further comprises:

a first converting unit converting a region size of one of the normalized and non-normalized regions into a specified size after the input data are input, and converting a size of all data of the region subject to the conversion and stored in said memory depending on the conversion of the region size.

36. The computer program product as claimed in claim 30, which further comprises:

a second converting unit converting a size of data stored in said memory and corresponding to a portion of one of the normalized and non-normalized regions into a specified size after the input data are input.

37. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing document processing which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said computer program product comprising:

a setting unit setting on the display screen a plurality of normalized regions having different normalized sizes, said plurality of normalized regions coexisting on the display screen with a non-normalized region;

a judging unit judging one of said normalized regions to which input data are input;

a storing unit, responsive to said judging unit, converting a size of the input data into a normalized size of the normalized region judged by said judging unit and storing the converted input data in a memory; and

a display device displaying the stored, size-converted input data in a document so that the size-converted data coexists in the document with non-converted input data input to the non-normalized region.

38. The computer program product as claimed in claim 37, which further comprises:

a displaying unit, responsive to said setting unit, displaying each of the normalized regions using mutuly different display formats on the display screen.

39. The computer program product as claimed in claim 37, which further comprises:

a setting changing unit cancelling the normalized size in at least a portion of the normalized region and setting a normalized region having another normalized size within the cancelled portion.

40. The computer program product as claimed in claim 37, which further comprises:

a changing unit changing a size of data subject to processing and stored in said memory when carrying out one of move and copy operations so that a size of data to be moved or copied matches a size of data at a moving or copying destination, said data subject to processing being one of data to be moved or copied to another normalized region and data at the moving or copying destination.

41. The computer program product as claimed in claim 37, which further comprises:

a first converting unit converting a region size of the normalized region into a specified size after the input data are input, and converting a size of all of data of the region subject to the conversion and stored in said memory depending on the conversion of the region size.

42. The computer program product as claimed in claim 37, which further comprises:

a second converting unit converting a size of data stored in said memory and corresponding to a portion of the normalized region into a specified size after the input data are input.

43. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing document processing which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said computer program product comprising:

a first input mode for inputting input data to a normalized region set on the display screen and storing the input data in a memory after converting a size of the input data into a normalized size;

a second input mode for inputting the input data to a non-normalized region set on the display screen and storing the input data in said memory without converting the size of the input data into the normalized size, said normalized region and said non-normalized region coexisting on the display screen;

a setting changing unit cancelling the input mode in at least a portion of the region to which the input data are input in one of said first and second input modes, and changing the cancelled portion into a region to which an input is made in the other of said first and second input modes; and

a display device displaying the converted input data stored by the first input mode and the nonconverted input data stored by the second input mode in a document so that the displayed converted input data and non-converted input coexist in the displayed document.

44. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing document processing which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said computer program product comprising:

a storing unit storing input data in a memory after converting a size of the input data into a normalized size; and

a setting changing unit cancelling the normalized size used to input the input data in at least a portion of a data input region on the display screen, and setting a data input region having another normalized size within the cancelled portion.

45. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for forming document processing which creates a document, said computer program product comprising:

a converting unit converting the code data generated from a keyboard into character/symbol data related to at least one of characters and symbols; and

a generating unit generating displaying data for displaying handwritten data by changing a size of the handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device to a size of the character/symbol data output from said converting unit.

46. The computer program product as claimed in claim 45, which further comprises:

a recognizing unit recognizing the handwritten data generated from said handwritten data input device and inputting the code data indicated by the recognized handwritten data to said converting unit.

47. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing document processing which creates a document, said computer program product comprising.

a converting unit converting code data generated from a keyboard into character/symbol data related to at least one of characters and symbols;

a normalizing unit generating displaying data for displaying handwritten data by normalizing a size of the handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device; and

a generating unit generating displaying data for displaying the character/symbol data by changing a size of the character/symbol data output from said converting unit to a size of the handwritten data output from said normalizing unit.

48. The computer program product as claimed in claim 47, which further comprises:

a recognizing unit recognizing the handwritten data generated from said handwritten data input device and inputting the code data indicated by the recognized handwritten data to said converting unit.

49. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing document processing which creates a document, said computer program product comprising:

a converting unit converting code data generated from a keyboard into character/symbol data related to at least one of characters and symbols;

a developing unlit developing the character/symbol data output from said converting unit in an image memory unit; and

a displaying unit generating displaying data for displaying a created document and to be stored in a display memory unit from the data stored in said image memory unit so that the created document has a format in which a fair cop of said at least one of characters and symbols coexists in the created document with handwritten data.

50. The computer program product as claimed in claim 49, which further comprises:

a normalizing unit normalizing a size of handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and storing the normalized handwritten data in said image memory unit.

51. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing document processing which creates a document, said computer program product comprising:

a converting unit converting code data generated from a keyboard into characterlsymbol data related to at least one of characters and symbols;

a developing unit developing the characterlsymbol data output from said converting unit in a first image memory unit; and

a generating unit generating displaying data for displaying a created document and to be stored in said display memory unit from the data stored in said first image memory unit and data stored in a second image memory unit storing handwritten data, the handwritten data and the symbols coexist in the created document.

52. The computer program product as claimed in claim 51, which further comprises:

a normalizing unit normalizing a size of the handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and storing the normalized handwritten data in said second image memory unit.

53. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing document processing which creates a document, said computer program product comprising:

an extracting unit extracting a handwritten data block made up of an input unit of one or a plurality of handwritten data out of the handwritten data input from a handwritten data, input device;

an assigning unit assigning a label written by one or a plurality of code data with respect to the handwritten data block extracted by said extracting unit;

a managing unit managing management data related to a corresponding relationship of the label assigned by said assigning unit and the corresponding handwritten data; and

a retrieving unit retrieving handwritten data for which a retrieval request is made by referring to the management data of said managing unit in response to the retrieval request for the handwritten data specifying the label thereof.

54. The computer program product as claimed in claim 53, wherein a portion of the handwritten data block extracted by said extracting unit includes an image of character/symbol data indicated by the code data, said character/symbol data being related to at least one of characters and symbols.

55. The computer program product as claimed in claim 53, which further comprises:

a normalizing unit normalizing a size of the handwritten data generated from said handwritten data input device and storing the normalized handwritten data in image memory unit.

56. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing document processing which creates a document, said computer program product comprising:

an assigning unit assigning code data of character/symbol data with respect to an input unit of the handwritten data block generated from a handwritten data input device, said character/symbol data being related to at least one of characters and symbols;

a managing unit managing management data related to a corresponding relationship of the code data assigned by said assigning unit and the corresponding input unit of the handwritten data;

a retrieving unit retrieving handwritten data corresponding to input code data if the input code data is registered in said managing unit; and

a selecting unit selecting the handwritten data retrieved by said retrieving unit as input data in place of the character/symbol data indicated by the input code data.

57. The computer program product as claimed in claim 56, which further comprises:

a normalizing unit normalizing a size of the handwritten data generated from, said handwritten data input device and storing the normalized handwritten data in an image memory unit.

58. The computer program product as claimed in claim 56, wherein said assigning unlit assigns the code data of the character/symbol data corresponding to the handwritten data with respect to the input unit of the handwritten data input from said handwritten data input device.

59. A document creating apparatus comprising:

a judging unit judging whether input data are input to a normalized region or a non-normalized region on a display screen; and

a converting unit, when the input data are judged by the judging unit as being input to the normalized region, converting the input data into a normalized size and then storing the converted input data, and, when the input data are judged by the judging unit as being input to the non-normalized region, storing the input data as they are.

60. A document creating process comprising:

judging whether input data are input to a normalized region or a non-normalized region coexisting on a display screen;

when the input data are judged by said judging as being input to the normalized region, converting the input data into a normalized size and then storing the converted input data;

when the input data are judged by said judging as being input to the non-normalized region, storing the input data as they are; and

creating and displaying a document so that the stored, converted input data and the stored, input data as they are coexist in the displayed document.

61. A computer readable medium comprising document creating software for performing the processes of:

judging whether input data are input to a normalized region or a non-normalized region coexisting on a display screen;

when the input data are judged by said judging as being input to the normalized region, converting the input data into a normalized size and then storing the converted input data;

when the input data are judged by said judging as being input to the non-normalized region, storing the input data as they are; and

creating and displaying a document so that the stored, converted input data and the stored, input data as they are coexist in the displayed document.

62. A document creating apparatus which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said document creating apparatus comprising:

a setting unit setting on the display screen a normalized region having a normalized size as an attribute and a non-normalized region having no normalized size as the attribute;

a judging unit judging whether input data are input to the normalized region or the non-normalized region;

a memory;

a first storing unit, coupled to said memory and responsive to said judging unit, converting a size of the input data into a normalized size of the normalized region and storing the normalized input data in said memory when said judging unit judges that the input data are input to the normalized region; and

a second storing unit, coupled to said memory and responsive to said judging unit, storing the input data in said memory as they are when said judging unit judges that the input data are input to the non-normalized region, so that input data input to the normalized region and input data input to the non-normalized region coexist in the created document.

63. A document creating apparatus which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said document creating apparatus comprising:

a setting unit setting on the display screen a plurality of normalized regions having different normalized sizes;

a judging unit judging one of said normalized regions to which input data are input;

a memory;

a storing unit, coupled to said memory and responsive to said judging unit, converting a size of the input data into a normalized size of the normalized region judged by said judging unit and storing the converted input data in said memory, input data input into the normalized region judged by said judging unit coexisting in the created document with data input to a non-normalized region on the screen display.

64. A document creating apparatus which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said document creating apparatus comprising:

a memory;

a first input mode for inputting input data to a normalized region set on the display screen and storing the input data in said memory after converting a size of the input data into a, normalized size;

a second input mode for inputting input data to a non-normalized region set on the display screen and storing the input data in said memory without converting the size of the input data into the normalized size; and

a setting changing unit cancelling the input mode in at least a portion of the region to which the input data are input in one of said first and second input modes, and changing the cancelled portion into a region to which an input is made in the other of said first and second input modes, input data input to the normalized region and input data input to the non-normalized region coexisting in the created document.

65. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing document processing which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said computer program product comprising:

a setting unit setting on the display screen a normalized region having a normalized size as an attribute and a non-normalized regions having no normalized size as the attribute;

a judging unit judging whether input data are input to the normalized region or the non-normalized region;

a first storing unit, responsive to said judging unit, converting a size of the input data into a normalized size of the normalized region and storing the normalized input data in a memory when said judging unit judges that the input data are input to the normalized region; and

a second storing unit, coupled to said memory and responsive to said judging unit, storing the input data in said memory as they are when said judging unit judges that the input data are input to the non-normalized region, input data input to the normalized region and input data input to the non-normalized region coexisting in the created document.

66. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing document processing which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said computer program product comprising:

a setting unit setting on the display screen a plurality of normalized regions having different normalized sizes;

a judging unit judging one of said normalized regions to which input data are input;

a storing unit, responsive to said judging unit, converting a size of the input data into a normalized size of the normalized region judged by said judging unit and storing the converted input data in a memory, the size-converted input data coexisting with non-normalized data in the created document.

67. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing document processing which creates a document in response to handwritten data generated from a handwritten data input device and displays the created document on a display screen, said computer program product comprising:

a first input mode for inputting input data to a normalized region set on the display screen and storing the input data in a memory after converting a size of the input data into a normalized size;

a second input mode for inputting the input data to a non-normalized region set on the display screen and storing the input data in said memory without converting the size of the input data into the normalized size; and

a setting changing unit cancelling the input mode in at least a portion of the region to which the input data are input in one of said first and second input modes, and changing the cancelled portion into a region to which an input is made in the other of said first and second input modes, input data input to the non-normalized region and input data input to the non-normalized region coexisting in the created document.

68. A document creating apparatus comprising:

a judging unit judging whether input data are input to a normalized region or non-normalized region on a display screen; and

a converting unit, when the input data are judged by the judging unit as being input to the normalized region, converting the input data into a normalized size and then storing the converted input data, and, when the input data are judged by the judging unit as being input to the non-normalized region, storing the input data as they are, so that input data input to the normalized region and input data input to the non-normalized region coexist in a created document.

69. A document creating process comprising:

judging whether input data are input to a normalized region or a non-normalized region on a display screen;

when the input data are judged by said Judging as being input to the normalized region, converting the input data into a normalized size and then storing the converted input data; and

,

when the input data are judged by said judging as being input to the non-normalized region, storing the input data as they are, so that input data input to the normalized region and input data input to the non-normalized region coexist in a created document.

70. A computer readable medium comprising document creating software for performing the processes of:

judging whether input data are input to a normalized region or a non-normalized region on a display screen;

when the input data are judged by said judging as being input to the normalized region, converting the input data into a normalized size and then storing the converted input data; and

,

when the input data are judged by said judging as being input to the non-normalized region, storing the input data as they are, so that input data input to the normalized region and input data input to the non-normalized region coexist in a created document.