Information processing apparatus and GUI component display method for performing display operation on document data

• US 7,904,837 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2006
• Issued: 03/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Wakai, Masanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Hutton; Doug
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dasgupta; Soumya
• Application Number:
  US11/465,201
• Publication Number:
  US 20070052685A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,664 Days
• Field of Search: 715/863, 715/810, 715/800, 715/763, 715/277, 715/268, 715/253
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes an interpretation unit configured to interpret a command written on computerized document data, a creation unit configured to create a graphical user interface (GUI) component used to perform execution of the command interpreted by the interpretation unit, and a display control unit configured to cause a display apparatus to display document data corresponding to target data that represents a target of the execution and to display the created GUI component at a position corresponding to the command written on the document data.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a scanned document comprising:

scanning a paper document that includes a text region, an image region and a handwritten command and generating a scanned document;

interpreting the handwritten command in the paper document;

determining a relative position and size of the handwritten command in the paper document and creating a graphical user interface (GUI) component in the scanned document that corresponds to the handwritten command and has the determined relative position and size;

determining an instruction that corresponds to the GUI component and displaying the scanned document including the text region, the image region and the GUI component; and

executing the determined instruction when a user performs an operation on the GUI component.

2. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display;

a central processing unit;

an image forming apparatus configured to scan a paper document that includes a text region, an image region and a handwritten command and to generate a scanned document;

a scanned document interpretation unit configured to interpret the handwritten command in the paper document;

a graphical user interface (GUI) component creation unit configured to determine a relative position and size of the handwritten command in the paper document and to create a GUI component in the scanned document that corresponds to the handwritten command and has the determined relative position and size;

a scanned document display unit configured to determine an instruction that corresponds to the GUI component and to display the scanned document including the text region, the image region and the GUI component; and

an execution unit configured to execute the determined instruction when a user performs an operation on the GUI component.

3. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for performing a method for displaying a scanned document, the method comprising:

scanning a paper document that includes a text region, an image region and a handwritten command and generating a scanned document;

interpreting the handwritten command in the paper document;

determining a relative position and size of the handwritten command in the paper document and creating a graphical user interface (GUI) component in the scanned document that corresponds to the handwritten command and has the determined relative position and size;

determining an instruction that corresponds to the GUI component and displaying the scanned document including the text region, the image region and the GUI component; and

executing the determined instruction when a user performs an operation on the GUI component.