Minutes-creating support apparatus and method

• US 7,707,227 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2005
• Issued: 04/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Shibata, Hirohito
• Primary Examiner(s): Breene; John E
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHONG H
• Application Number:
  US11/214,812
• Publication Number:
  US 20060218477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,700 Days
• Field of Search: 707/104.1, 707/999.107, 709/204, 715/500, 715/753, 704/235
• US Class Current: 707/802
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

There is provided a minutes-creating support apparatus including a conference image retaining portion retaining a conference image captured by a capturing apparatus to be associated with date and time information, a memo editing portion associating information input from an inputting apparatus with the date and time information, and a minute creating portion editing the information input from the inputting apparatus with retaining the date and time information.

Claims

1. A minutes-creating support apparatus for creating minutes of a conference, the apparatus comprising:

a conference image retaining portion having a computer-readable memory, which stores a conference image in the computer readable-memory, and which associates the stored conference image with date and time information, the date and time information being a date and a time at which the conference image is captured by a capturing apparatus;

a memo editing portion which receives text information describing the conference input by a user from an inputting apparatus and input by employing a technique of voice automatic recognition based on the user'"'"'s voice at a date and a time, associates the text information having the date and the time with corresponding date and time information of the conference image, and stores the associated information; and

a minute creating portion which links the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition with the conference image based on the associated date and time information stored by the memo editing portion to create the minutes, and which, if the user modifies the text information in the minutes, retains the date and time information associated with the text information based on the associated information stored by the memo editing portion,

wherein the conference image is a conference moving image.

2. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a replay portion replaying the conference image according to the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition.

3. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the memo editing portion associates the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition with the date and time information on a given piece of information basis.

4. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the given piece of the text information includes at least one of a character, a word, a phrase, a sentence, and a line of text information input by the user.

5. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the minute creating portion groups a plurality of pieces of text information.

6. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the memo editing portion displays the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition to correspond to the date and time information.

7. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the minute creating portion provides editor on which the given piece of the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition can be grouped.

8. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a minutes display portion generating first image data of a portion of minutes created by editing the text information by the minute creating portion and second image data of another portion of the minutes created independent of the text information, the first and second image data being displayed in different display fashions.

9. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the text information is grouped by the minute creating portion, the date and time information associated with the text information is grouped along with the text information.

10. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the text information input by the user is input during the conference.

11. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the minute creating portion creates the minutes, the minutes including the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition and the associated corresponding date and time information.

12. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein if the user modifies the text information by editing the text information, the minute creating portion retains the date and time information associated with the edited text information.

13. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein if the user modifies the text information by grouping the text information to a different position in the minutes, the minute creating portion retains the date and time information associated with the grouped text information.

14. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the minute creating portion automatically links the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition when the text information is input with the conference image based on the associated date and time information stored by the memo editing portion to create the minutes.

15. A minutes-creating support method for creating minutes of a conference, the method comprising:

storing a conference image captured by a capturing apparatus and associating the stored conference image with date and time information, the date and time information being a date and a time at which the conference image is captured by the capturing apparatus;

associating text information describing the conference input by a user from an inputting apparatus and input by employing a technique of voice automatic recognition based on the user'"'"'s voice at a date and a time with corresponding date and time information of the conference image and storing the associated information; and

linking the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition with the stored conference image based on the stored associated date and time information to create the minutes, and if the user modifies the text information in the minutes, retaining the date and time information associated with the text information based on the stored associated information,

wherein the conference image is a conference moving image.

16. The minutes-creating support method according to claim 15, further comprising replaying the conference image according to the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition.

17. The minutes-creating support method according to claim 15, further comprising displaying the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition to correspond to the date and time information.

18. The minutes-creating support method according to claim 15, further comprising displaying an editor on which the given piece of the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition can be grouped.

19. The minutes-creating support method according to claim 15, further comprising generating first image data of a portion of minutes created by editing the text information and generating second image data of another portion of the minutes created independent of the text information, the first and second image data being displayed in different display fashions.

20. The minutes-creating support method according to claim 15, wherein when the text information is grouped, the date and time information associated with the text information is grouped along with the text information.

21. The minutes-creating support method according to claim 15, further comprising creating the minutes, the minutes including the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition and the associated date and time information.

22. A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for supporting creating the minutes of a conference, the function comprising:

storing a conference image captured by a capturing apparatus and associating the stored conference image with date and time information, the date and time information being a date and a time at which the conference image is captured by the capturing apparatus;

associating text information describing the conference input by a user from an inputting apparatus and input by employing a technique of voice automatic recognition based on the user'"'"'s voice at a date and a time with corresponding date and time information of the conference image and storing the associated information; and

linking the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition with the stored conference image based on the stored associated date and time information to create the minutes, and if the user modifies the text information in the minutes, retaining the date and time information associated with the text information based on the stored associated information,

wherein the conference image is a conference moving image.

23. The storage medium according to claim 22, wherein the function for supporting creating the minutes further comprises generating first image data of a portion of minutes created by editing the text information and generating second image data of another portion of the minutes created independent of the text information, the first and second image data being displayed in different display fashions.

24. The storage medium according to claim 22, wherein when the text information is grouped, the date and time information associated with the text information is grouped along with the text information.

25. The storage medium according to claim 22, wherein the function further comprises creating the minutes, the minutes including the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition and the associated date and time information.