Document generating apparatus, display control apparatus, document generating method, display control method and computer readable medium

• US 8,699,039 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2008
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitazaki, Masako
• Primary Examiner(s): Hang, Vu B
• Application Number:
  US12/014,258
• Publication Number:
  US 20080240565A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,282 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/1.18, 358/1.9, 358/1.13, 358/1.16, 358/1.12, 358/505, 358/506, 358/401, 399/80, 345/173, 345/174, 345/176
• US Class Current: 358/1.12
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0421 by interrupting or reflecting a light beam, e.g. optical touch-screen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/17 using hand-held instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/19 by sensing codes defining pattern positions
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/235 based on user input or interaction

Abstract

The document generating apparatus is provided with: an acquiring unit that acquires information on a first operation on a display screen and information on a second operation on the display screen, the first operation being for designating a part area of an image as an area to be included in an electronic document, and the second operation being for setting a size of a medium on which the electronic document is printed; an adjusting unit that adjusts the part area of the image designated in the first operation into the medium of which size is set in the second operation; and a generating unit that generates the electronic document based on the image adjusted by the adjusting unit.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

a medium identification unit that identifies a medium which is located in touch with a surface of a display apparatus which provides a touch panel;

a detecting unit that detects an operation of a user which is for physically dragging a finger of the user from on a surface of the medium to the surface of the display apparatus;

an image identification unit that identifies, in accordance with a position on which the dragging operation is started, an image element satisfying a predetermined condition among a plurality of image elements included in an image that is held by the medium; and

a controller that controls, based on detection of the dragging operation, the image element identified by the image identification unit to be displayed on a screen of the display apparatus.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control apparatus further comprises a position identification unit that identifies a position on the surface of the medium, and

the image identification unit identifies the image element which is not printed on the position of the surface of the medium identified by the position identification unit, among the plurality of the image elements included in the image printed on the surface of the medium.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control apparatus further comprises a position identification unit that identifies a position on the surface of the medium, and

the image identification unit identifies the image element which is printed on the position of the surface of the medium identified by the position identification unit, among the plurality of the image elements included in the image printed on the surface of the medium.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the position identification unit further identifies a position on the display screen of the display apparatus, and

the controller controls the image element identified by the image identification unit to be displayed on the position of the display screen of the display apparatus identified by the position identification unit.

12. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display screen of the display apparatus is larger than the medium.

5. A display control apparatus comprising:

a first acquiring unit that acquires information indicative of oscillation of a medium over a display screen from an acceleration sensor or from analysis of an image obtained by taking an image of the medium;

a second acquiring unit that acquires an image held by the medium or electronic information on the image; and

a controller that controls the image acquired by the second acquiring unit or an image representing the electronic information acquired by the second acquiring unit to be displayed on the display screen according to the acquisition of information by the first acquiring unit.

6. A display control method comprising:

identifying a medium which is located in touch with a surface of a display apparatus which provides a touch panel;

detecting an operation of a user which is for physically dragging a finger of the user from on a surface of the medium to the surface on the display apparatus;

identifying, in accordance with a position on which the dragging operation is started, an image element satisfying a predetermined condition among a plurality of image elements included in an image that is held by the identified medium; and

controlling, based on the detecting of the dragging operation, the identified image element to be displayed on a screen of the display apparatus.

7. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for controlling display, the process comprising:

identifying a medium which is located in touch with a surface of a display apparatus which provides a touch panel;

detecting an operation of a user which is for physically dragging a finger of the user from on a surface of the medium to the surface on the display apparatus;

identifying, in accordance with a position on which the dragging operation is started, an image element satisfying a predetermined condition among a plurality of image elements included in an image that is held by the identified medium; and

controlling, based on the detecting of the dragging operation, the identified image element to be displayed on a screen of the display apparatus.

8. The computer readable medium according to claim 7,

the process further comprising:

identifying a position on the surface of the medium; and

identifying the image element satisfying the predetermined condition in which the image element is not printed on the identified position, among the plurality of the image elements included in the image printed on the surface of the medium.

9. The computer readable medium according to claim 7,

the process further comprising:

identifying a position on the surface of the medium; and

identifying the image element satisfying the predetermined condition in which the image element is printed on the identified position, among the plurality of the image elements included in the image printed on the surface of the medium.

10. The computer readable medium according to claim 9, the process further comprising:

identifying a position on the display apparatus; and

controlling the identified image element to be displayed on the position of the identified display apparatus.

11. The computer readable medium according to claim 7, the process further comprising:

acquiring information of oscillation of the medium over the display apparatus from an acceleration sensor or from analysis of an image obtained by taking an image of the medium; and

identifying the image element among the plurality of the image elements according to acquisition of the information.