Editing apparatus, editing method, and program

• US 8,407,586 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2007
• Issued: 03/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Niwa, Nobuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, CHAU T
• Application Number:
  US11/933,938
• Publication Number:
  US 20080141122A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,972 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/201, 715243-246, 715/253, 715255-256, 715763-765, 715/770, 715804-805, 715810-811, 715/271, 715/273, 715/277
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

An apparatus includes an editing area display unit configured to display a screen including an editing area that enables a user to edit a document, a temporary storage area display unit configured to display a temporary storage area which differs from the editing area and temporarily displays a list of reduced images of editing materials, and a layout editing unit configured to edit the document by adding a material selected from the editing materials displayed in the temporary storage area. When a currently edited document is transferred to a file, a control unit stores a path of a material displayed in the temporary storage area in relation to the document transferred to the file. When a document file stored in relation to the path of a material area is newly opened, the control unit determines whether the newly opened document file is related to the material in the temporary storage area.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

displaying a screen including an editing area for editing documents;

displaying, during displaying the screen including the editing area and editing of a first document in the editing area by a user, a temporary storage area that temporarily displays a first list of one or more editing materials, wherein each editing material of the first list of one or more editing materials displayed in the temporary storage area was selected during the editing of the first document by the user from prepared materials and is configured to be added to the first document;

storing, using a memory and in relation to each other as a document file, the edited first document and first path information of the one or more editing materials displayed in the temporary storage area, wherein the edited first document and the first path information are one document file of a plurality of document files stored in the memory, wherein each of the document files contains, in relation to each other, an edited document and path information of one or more editing materials selected by a user from prepared materials that were displayed during the editing of the edited document;

determining, in response to opening a newly opened document, whether path information of one or more editing materials is stored in the memory in a document file in relation to the newly opened document; and

displaying the newly opened document in the editing area and, in response to determining that the path information of one or more editing materials is stored in relation to the newly opened document, displaying in the temporary storage area a list of one or more editing materials based on the path information of one or more editing materials stored in relation to the newly opened document.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, in response to displaying a second document in the editing area, the temporary storage area displays a second list of one or more editing materials, wherein each editing material of the second list of one or more editing materials is a reduced image of an editing material whose layout cannot be edited, and further displays the first document and the second document as reduced images of documents whose layout can be edited when displayed in the editing area, the method further comprises:

replacing, in response to the reduced image first document being selected from the temporary storage area by the user, the second list of one or more editing materials in the temporary storage area with the first list of one or more editing materials and maintaining the display of the first document and the second document as reduced images in the temporary storage area.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

displaying a mark on at least one reduced image in the temporary storage area, wherein the mark discriminates the reduced image of the editing material displayed in the temporary storage area from the reduced image of the second document displayed in the temporary storage area.

4. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

memorizing, as a memorized position, a display position of a sub-window on the screen in relation to the edited first document in response to the edited first document being stored, wherein the sub-window displays materials used for editing a document or enables the user to input an instruction;

displaying the sub-window in a default display position in response to the second document being displayed in the editing area; and

adjusting, in response to the reduced image first document being selected from the temporary storage area by the user, the display position of the sub-window to the memorized position on the screen.

5. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

moving, in response to receiving at a first location characters input into the second document, a display position of a sub-window on the screen to a position that is adjacent to the input characters at the first location on the second document.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more editing materials displayed during the displaying of the newly opened document are separated according to category.