Information browsing apparatus and recording medium for computer to read, storing computer program

• US 9,639,514 B2
• Filed: 11/27/2012
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Inoue, Masayuki, Shibata, Tetsuhiro, Hyodo, Keiichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Dyer, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US13/686,114
• Publication Number:
  US 20130139045A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,617 Days
• Field of Search: 715224, 715230, 715255, 715256, 715 26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/10 Character recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/1456 based on user interactions

Abstract

Provided is an information browsing apparatus provided with a display section on which display surface a touch panel to detect contact of an object is disposed. The information browsing apparatus is capable of displaying a document in a first display form where the entire display section is configured with a single region, and in a second display form where the display section is divided into a plurality of regions and provided with a data processing section. In case handwriting information is inputted straddling two or more than two regions in the second display form, the data processing section judges to which region the handwritten information belongs, thereafter when the display from is changed to the first display form, the data display section displays all of the handwritten information in the region which is judged that the hand written information belongs to the region thereof.

Claims

1. A browsing apparatus enabling a first display format and a second display format, comprising:

a display section to display a document and handwritten information which shows a locus of an object on the display section;

a touch panel disposed on a display surface of the display section configured to detect contact with the object, and

a data processing section, wherein;

in a first display format, a first portion of the document is displayed on the display section as a single region, and

in a second display format, the display section is divided into a plurality of regions displaying the first portion of the document and a second portion of the document, wherein the first portion of the document is displayed in a first region and the second portion of the document is displayed in a second region, the first and second regions are displayed simultaneously adjacent to one another, and the data processing section is configured to receive the handwritten information input straddling the first and second regions,

the data processing section is configured to judge to which one of the first and second regions the handwritten information input in the second display format belongs to by determining in which of the first and second regions the handwritten information is first inputted, and

in the first display format, the data processing section displays all of the handwritten information input in the second display format in the single region, and

in the second display format, the data processing section displays all of the handwritten information straddling the first and second regions.

2. The information browsing apparatus of claim 1, wherein in the first display format, the document is displayed with a first magnification on the display section and in the second display format the display section is divided into the plurality of regions and a predetermined region is magnified by a second magnification greater than the first magnification to be displayed, and when the handwritten information is inputted straddling the predetermined region and another region than the predetermined region in the second display format, the data processing section judges to which region the handwritten information belongs and when displaying the document in the first display format, the data processing section displays all of the handwritten information in the region which the handwritten information is judged to belong thereto.

3. The information browsing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data processing section moves, or contracts and moves, the handwritten information to the region which the handwritten information is judged to belong thereto.

4. The information browsing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the inputted handwritten information is first handwritten information, and when subsequent handwritten information is inputted in one of the separate regions other than the one of the separate regions within a predetermined time after the first handwritten information is judged to belong to the one separate region, the data processing section judges that the subsequent handwritten information belongs to the one separate region.

5. The information browsing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the inputted handwritten information is first handwritten information, and when subsequent handwritten information is inputted in one of the separate regions other than the one of the separate regions after a predetermined time since the first handwritten information is judged to belong to the one separate region, the data processing section judges that the subsequent handwritten information belongs to the another of the separate regions.

6. A nontransitory recording medium for a computer to read, storing a computer program to operate a browsing apparatus enabling a first display format and a second display format, which comprises:

a display section to display a document and handwritten information which shows a locus of an object on the display section;

a touch panel disposed on a display surface of the display section configured to detect contact with the object, and

a data processing section,

wherein in the first display format a first position of the document is displayed on the display section as a single region and in the second display format the display section is divided into a plurality of separate regions displaying the first portion of the document and a second portion of the document, wherein the first portion of the document is displayed in a first region and the second portion of the document is displayed in a second region, and the first and second regions are displayed simultaneously adjacent to one another in separate regions, and the data processing section is configured to receive the handwritten information input straddling the first and second regions,

the data processing section judges to which one of the first or second regions the handwritten information input in the second display format belongs to by determining in which of the first and second regions the handwritten information is first inputted, and

in the first display format, the data processing section displays all of the handwritten information input in the second display format in the single region, and

in the second display format, the data processing section displays all of the handwritten information straddling the first and second regions.

7. The nontransitory recording medium for a computer to read, storing the computer program to operate the browsing apparatus of claim 6, wherein in the first display format, the document is displayed with a first magnification on the display section and in the second display format the display section is divided into the plurality of the regions and a predetermined region is magnified by a second magnification greater than the first magnification to be displayed, and when the handwritten information is inputted straddling the predetermined region and another region than the predetermined region in the second display format, the data processing section judges to which region the handwritten information belongs and when displaying the document in the first display format, the data processing section displays all of the handwritten information in the region which the handwritten information is judged to belong thereto.

8. The nontransitory recording medium for a computer to read, storing a computer program to operate the browsing apparatus of claim 6, wherein the data processing section moves, or contracts and moves, the handwritten information to the region which the handwritten information is judged to belong thereto.

9. The nontransitory recording medium for a computer to read, storing the computer program to operate the browsing apparatus of claim 6, wherein the inputted handwritten information is first handwritten information, and when subsequent handwritten information is inputted in one of the separate regions other than the one of the separate regions within a predetermined time after the first handwritten information is judged to belong to the one separate region, the data processing section judges that the subsequent handwritten information belongs to the one separate region.

10. The nontransitory recording medium for a computer to read, storing the computer program to operate the browsing apparatus of claim 6, wherein the inputted handwritten information is first handwritten information, and when subsequent handwritten information is inputted in one of the separate regions other than the one of the separate regions after a predetermined time since the first handwritten information is judged to belong to the one separate region, the data processing section judges that the subsequent handwritten information belongs to the another of the separate regions.

11. An information browsing apparatus enabling a first display format and a second display format, comprising:

a display section to display a document and handwritten information which shows a locus of an object on the display section;

a touch panel disposed on a display surface of the display section so as to detect contact with the object, and

a data processing section,

wherein in the first display format, the document is displayed with a first magnification on the display section and in the second display format the display section is divided into a plurality of regions and a predetermined region is magnified by a second magnification greater than the first magnification to be displayed, and when the handwritten information is inputted straddling the predetermined region and another region other than the predetermined region and which is at the first magnification in the second display format, the data processing section judges to which region the handwritten information belongs, then when displaying the document in the first display format, if the handwritten information is judged to belong to the predetermined region, the data processing section contracts and displays all of the handwritten information in accordance with a change of magnification of the predetermined region.

12. A nontransitory recording medium for a computer to read,

storing a computer program to operate a browsing apparatus including a display section to display a document and handwritten information which shows a locus of an object on the display section,

a touch panel disposed on a display surface of the display section configured to detect contact with the object and a data processing section,

wherein in a first display format the document is displayed with a first magnification on the display section and in a second display format the display section is divided into a plurality of regions to display a predetermined region with a second magnification which is greater than the first magnification;

wherein the information browsing apparatus judges to which region the handwritten information belongs when the handwritten information is inputted straddling the predetermined region and another region other than the predetermined region and which is at the first magnification in the second display format, and contracts all of the handwritten information in accordance with a change of magnification of the predetermined region to display all of the handwritten information when the document is displayed in the first display format.